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Amazing Uses for Washing Soda

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If you have never made your own cleaning products, today you are in for a treat: I’m going to share a few of my favorite recipes with you! I have shared a few easy and natural DIYs in the past like my favorite deodorant recipe here or my favorite air freshener here but I have not written about some of our favorite detergents and such yet… until today! We make a lot of our own cleaning products in our home because I like to clean responsibly, especially since we have four growing kids and a dog. One of my favorite cleaning product ingredients just happens to be Washing Soda. Have you seen this before? Washing Soda has a ton of uses and so many of them revolve around keeping your home clean!

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I typically buy ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda  at my local Walmart in the laundry aisle but you can also find it at Dollar General! I love that it has so many uses and it’s been around since 1874!!!

  • A natural detergent booster and freshener. It increases your detergents cleaning power to get out ground-in dirt and stains and cuts through greasy soils.
  • It can be used all around the home and adds extra cleaning and freshening power to various tough household jobs

Plus, it is a natural product that is 100% Fragrance & Phosphate Free. And it helps neutralize and eliminate odors, not cover them up with perfumes

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Here are a few of my favorite DIY recipes involving ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda , hope you find them useful to your household!

DIY Dishwashing Detergent

  • 1/2 cup ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda
  • 1/4 cup sodium citrate
  • 1/8 cup baking soda
  • 1/8 cup fine sea salt

Mix all ingredients together and place in an airtight glass container. Use one tablespoon per load in your dishwasher.

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DIY Laundry Detergent

  • 1 cup Borax
  • 1 cup ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda
  • 1 bar Fels-Naptha soap, grated very fine

Mix all ingredients together and place in an airtight container. Use 1 heaping tablespoon per load of laundry, 2 scoops for an extra dirty load. I always dissolve the detergent in a bit of warm water before adding it to my washing machine to get it dissolved well because I typically wash our clothes in cold water (unless I’m doing sheets or towels!) This works great in a top loader and is a low sudsing detergent so it should be fine in an HE washing machine but check your instruction manual before using!

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DIY Carpet Stain Remover

  • 1-2 tsp ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda
  • 1 cup hot water
  • 1-2 drops liquid dish soap
  • 1 tsp vinegar
  • 1 cup hot water

To make this, mix the ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda and 1 cup of hot water in a spray bottle, then add in the liquid dish soap and shake well. Spray onto carpet stain but do not saturate and blot but do not rub. Let solution sit for 10-15 minutes and then extract excess water with a wet/dry vac. Then mix the vinegar and hot water together and spray onto the stain. Blot, spray, extract, and repeat for a few cycles until stain is gone!

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A few other amazing uses for ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda are:

Laundry Presoak- Add 2 Tbsp ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda to one gallon of warm water. Soak clothing overnight to help with stain removal.

DIY Oven Cleaner 1 cup baking soda 1 cup ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda 1 Tbsp Castile soap, 2-3 drops of vinegar. Mix ingredients together to make a paste. Coat surface of your oven and let sit overnight. Wipe with a warm cloth in the morning!

Drain Cleaner- Add 1 cup ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda to your drains and follow by pouring 2-3 quarts of boiling water down the drain to keep them clean.

Drain De-Clogger- Add 1/4 cup ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda and follow with 1 quart boiling water to unclog drains. Do not use if you have already poured store bought cleaner down the drain already!

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Cookware Scrubber- Sprinkle ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda on a damp sponge, scrub pots and pans and rinse well. *Not for aluminum cookware! *Make sure to wear gloves as washing soda can cause a skin reaction!!!

I hope you enjoyed all of these amazing uses for ARM & HAMMER™ Super Washing Soda ! You will be able to clean so many things in your home! Plus making your own detergents and scrubs will save you so much money in the long run!!! Thanks for stopping by today! Love, Maggie

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Comments

  1. Tammy says

    Simple vinegar and water to wash windows with and using newspaper instead of a cloth. I do wear latex gloves while doing this because the newspaper will get your hands black. Something my dad taught me.

  2. Kelly Tuck says

    I like to use baking soda and vinegar in my tub and sink. Scatter baking soda and then pour on vinegar. It will foam up. Use scrubby pad and then rinse. Great for stainless steel sinks.

  3. Will G says

    My favorite DIY cleaning recipe is mixing salt in with lemon juice to get stains out of your carpet … it works miracles!

  5. Natalie says

    My favorite DIY cleaning product recipe is to mix a few drops of essential oil with water, rubbing alcohol and baking soda. It works great as a scrub!

  9. Kelly says

    My best-loved DIY cleaner is equal parts blue Dawn liquid dish soap and warm vinegar; mix in spray bottle; spray on tub/shower; leave to sit for 30 min; scrub with blue scratchy sponge and rinse well. Squeaky clean and shiny!!!

  23. Julie Wood says

    My favorite DIY CLeaning recipe is I make my own Scouring Powder. Scouring powder recipe is 2 parts baking soda, 1 part salt, and 1 part borax. It will cut through even the toughest scum!

  34. Cheryl B says

    I use vinegar and water to clean my glasses, windows, glass in my cabinets and hutch. It works freat for cleaning car windows too.

  36. Angela Hendricks says

    I love using Arm and Hammer baking soda to pre-soak my laundry! It really helps get those tough stains and smells out of my clothing!

  40. rachel says

    I use hydrogen peroxide to clean my Le Creuset when I totally burn it. Heat it on low — works AMAZING to lift off those burns!

  45. Marsha says

    Hydrogen peroxide and Dawn dish soap! From cleaning the bathroom and kitchen to removing laundry stains to carpet cleane…awesome multipurpose disinfecting cleaner!

  46. Kristen says

    I never knew you could it for so many things. I’m definitely going to try the oven cleaner, because who wants to use toxic chemicals if this works?! Thanks!

  49. Rebecca says

    I probably use vinegar the most, but I also like to use baking soda as well. I’ll use it in my laundry or as a homemade room freshener mixed with hot water and laundry softener.

  53. Kelly D says

    I like to combine baking soda and vinegar to clean the showers and sometimes toilet. I use a scrubbing brush to clean while it fizzes.

  56. Stephanie Phelps says

    My favorite DIY cleaning recipe is baking soda and vinegar in my coffee pot to get it clean as a whistle!

  61. Anne says

    I recently had success with a DIY cleaning “recipe” using soap nuts in the laundry. I simply soaked them in hot water for a few minutes, put them in a muslin bag, then tossed the bag and the liquid the soap nuts had soaked in into the washing machine. Worked just fine!

  73. angie lilly says

    I don’t actually make my own cleaning products but I do make my own hand sanitizer. I mix equal portions of rubbing Alcohol with organic aloe vera gel. I add just enough distilled water to allow it to pass easily thru a spray bottle and several drops of peppermint essential oil.

  77. Denise L says

    I use all kinds of homemade cleaners. I just tried a new one that includes vinegar, alcohol, water, dish soap and essential oils for cleaning wood floors. Worked pretty well!

  81. Betty C says

    I’ve been making my own laundry detergent with a recipe very similar to yours. I also like to use vinegar for a variety of cleaning chores.

  84. Lee says

    I like to rub baking soda into bathroom tile grout and then wash over with vinegar to foam out grime.

  86. Jerry Marquardt says

    My favorite DIY cleaning product recipe is using distilled vinegar to clean any part of kitchen utensil including insides of coffee cups to clean what soap won’t clean.

  88. Barbara Montag says

    I have a recipe for liquid laundry soap which uses ivory soap, 20 Muleteam Borax and water.
    Easy to make and save a lot!
    thank you