Surely one of you must know the product as sodium bicarbonate. It is indeed used for baking, cleaning, and innumerable other practical applications as everyone knows. The wonders associated with baking soda extend way beyond these mundane uses. So read along to know about some amazing health benefits of baking soda from this blog.


Here Are Some Amazing Health Benefits of Baking Soda!

 

1. Natural Antacid Cure Heartburn and Indigestion

Within a few days, you'll feel a relief from heartburn and indigestion, since it works very well. This is the disease when the acid inside your stomach reacts with your oesophagus and causes irritation to it as well. Hence, your baking soda will act as the antacid that nullifies the acid coming out from your stomach.

 

Dosage

Put half a teaspoon of baking soda in the water in the glass.

Take it in small quantities so that you enable to dissolve heartburn and also indigestion.

 

2. Oral Hygiene: It Whitens The Teeth And Also Refreshes The Breath.

Most amounts of any mouthwash and toothpaste globally have applied Baking Soda since its teeth-whitening property is what whitens the teeth, apart from refreshing one's breath. It has low-abrasive property for the removal of plaques or stains on the teeth other than neutralizing acids in the mouth due to its alkaline property.

 

Application

Take one tsp. of baking soda and add a few drops of water to it and turn it into a paste

Apply this paste some time in a week along with your brushing routine in your teeth. Use for fresh breath: Mix half tsp. of soda within the glass of water. Swallow it as your mouth wash.

 

3. Skin Care: Relief Irritations and Radiant Skin

Some of the natural remedies that have the application of baking soda may be insect bites, sunburns, and rashes. Its excretion decreases the inflammation that causes itchiness and swelling. Baking soda exfoliates the skin from dead cells that make its freshness and glow.

 

How to Use

Water dissolve and rub on to affected areas or as a paste on insect bites and sunburn One teaspoon of baking soda mixed with water can be used as a scrub Rub everywhere to massage gently in circular motions and then washed off Exfoliate.

 

4. Foot Care Treats Athletes Foot Kills Odor

Athlete's foot is that fungus which gives red, itchy blisters on your feet. Thus, it will kill the fungus causing infection the moment you apply baking soda as the remedy to this foot problem. That is because baking soda works by soaking off the excess moisture on the feet, leading to the getting rid of the bacteria that cause smell.


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Preparation Instructions

Mix some baking soda in water for foot soak. Soak your feet in that liquid for 15 to 20 minutes.

Take little baking soda in shoes and socks, and now that awful stinky smell of your feet has reached its end.

 

5. Athletic Performance: Improved Endurance As Well As End

It is a performance enhancer in most athletes. Before exercise, baking soda can regulate the amount of lactic acid reabsorbed by muscles delaying fatigue and stamina. It is very good for sprinting and weightlifting exercises.

 

How to Take It:

Mix one teaspoon of baking soda in glassful of water and take an hour before exercise.

 

6. Natural Deodorant: Fresh All Day

Whereas some commercial deodorants carry such harmful chemicals that skin gets irritated easily and is sensitive to; Baking Soda has not got irritating additive other than neutralizing bad smells in it. Being an anti-bacterial product, it kills the terrible bacteria giving your body those awful odors of your body parts.

 

Apply It

Take teaspoonful of water and baking soda. Mix in kind of paste; apply under armpit where people would put conventional deodorant.

 

7. Alkalize Your Body and Cure Kidney Issues

Without it, life would be unstable because the pH balance in a human body will not prevail. It ensures that it has a healthy working of the kidneys. Through neutralizing the acidity of urine and making one resist the development of kidney stones among many diseases, baking soda makes this possible.

 

Usage

Half a teaspoon of baking soda mixed in water must be taken in a day. However, do remind your doctor about any kidney condition that you might suffer from before starting the treatment.

 

8. Hair Health Improvement of Treatment for the Removal of Product Build-Up

Hair products start gathering on your scalp and hair, making your hair look dead. Baking soda is quite helpful in bringing the shine back in your hair by taking off all the build-up stuff. Baking soda keeps the pH level of the scalp that creates issues like itching and dandruff.

 

Usage

Mix one teaspoon of baking soda with your shampoo and then proceed to the normal process of washing your hair as you would.

Or, simply mix the baking soda with water and make a paste, then apply for scalp scrubbing.

 

Conclusion

More than it is an excellent assistant to the cook, baking soda is just an amazing gadget that makes your health much better. After all these relief from indigestion and heartburn, it may perhaps be the best remedy towards better oral hygiene, skin health, and athletic performance. All these benefits from baking soda can abound undoubtedly. If the simple and affordable remedies are regularly applied then, your overall health can really be improved significantly.


You only have to make sure that you are taking it in small servings, and of course, if you are suffering from any condition, you seek your doctor's or medical practitioner's advice. For all these fantastic benefits, it could then be given the name of the home hero that you should keep on continuing keeping on shelves.


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