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5 Things To Do with Baking Soda

We all know about baking soda for cleaning and soaking up odours. But this versatile product has hundreds of uses around the home.

From: Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things, Reader's Digest Canada

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Bicarbonate of soda is the main ingredient in fire extinguishers?

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