Baking Soda & Epson Salt

[Dacula]

I am tired of buying store-bought products that do more harm than good.

I am curious if fellow FReepers were using baking soda and Epson Salt on a regular basis and if so what is your favorite tip.

Perhaps you have another 'Secret' product that you use.

[pa_dweller]

Add used dryer sheets to your case tumbler media.

https://nygunforum.com/threads/dryer-sheet-in-the-polishing-tumbler.4214/

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No, it will not. Not unless you are literally drowning the cat. What happens is that people put the pure oil on the cat and the cat will lick the area because it burns and it gets inside them.

I repeat, do not put pure oils on your pets.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I use epson salts when I go for a soak. I use it primarily for pain.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Not really. Ten bucks for two ounces. There are about 12,000 drops per bottle or about 800 bottles of spider killer at a penny and a half a bottle.

There is not a commercial product available for that price.

[TangoLimaSierra]

If fleas get in your carpet or furniture, put a small dish of some flea killer under a focused lamp light at night with the other lights off.

Actually a bowl of soapy water under the lamp is just as effective.

[Keyhopper]

Throw some confectionery sugar in that, burns faster

[airedale]

Add some real liquid soap like Doctor Bonners. Real soap makes it stick better, plugs air organs and helps damage the waxy part of exoskeleton. Has to be soap not detergent from what I’ve read. If you have bunnies in garden use the liquid soap to make adhere to leaves mix with capsaicin and other ingredients that taste bad to the pests. Since soap based will wash off when your ready to eat. If you cant find the bad tasting ingredients in liquid form make it as a tea.

[Keyhopper]

Spray Dawn on your plants to keep the bugs down.
Fill a 5 gallons bucket with water and leave it sit in the sun, put a pouch of red man chewing tobacco, spray on plants, kills everything.
Use peanut butter to get gum off of clothes.
Mist vinegar on sunburns.

[takebackaustin]

Over time I came to use baking soda or part of an alka-seltzer in most glasses of water. I eventually found out, by waking up in the night with severe abdominal pain and going to the ER and getting a CAT scan and sonography, that I had been medicating undetected gallstones/gallbladder disease.

I had gone on keto last year.

You might get checked if you feel low level nonspecific pain after eating and have to use antacids all the time...

[airedale]

Ants dont like mint. Plant mint near where they are coming in. Since it’s the aroma as I understand it make a very very strong mint tea mix with liquid soap to help it stick and spray on entry points. You’ll have to repeat every time it rains or if area gets hit by the sprinklers.

They dont like cinnamon either. Cinnamon dust will kill them but like mint they dont like smell. Same with red pepper.

Supposedly diatomaceous earth also works like it does for snails and slugs but I’m skeptical.

[CaptainPhilFan]

Baking Soda and Hydrogen Peroxide, once a week, teaspoon of each, swish it for 2 minutes in my mouth in the shower, spit and brush. I believe it helps stop and repair cavities, not to mention any tooth or gum infections.

Vodka with lemon and /or orange peels and herbs soaked in it for a few weeks makes an excellent cleaner, especially for old, damaged wood floors. Also, a potent cocktail mixer! :D

Comet around window and door sills to keep ants out.

Hubs burns coffee grinds to keep bugs away in the evening.

A few other things mentioned already by excellent FReepers.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

If you ever find a non stick pan that works please let me know.

America's Test Kitchen best nonstick pans. Personally our Tfal went for 4 years before it started sticking. And if you wanted to know the other pans ATK tested here is their list.

Now we use an inductive cooktop but if we didn't I'd find a good cast iron pan. Properly seasoned ones don't stick and last forever.

[TangoLimaSierra]

We had a lot of ground yellow jackets and paper wasps. I put on of these in front and another in the back right where there were probably a dozen old wasp nests.

No more wasps of either kind around now for 2.5 years. A little pricey, but after walking over a yellow jacket nest and getting about a dozen stings, I didn't care.

Waspinator

[Songcraft]

Recently found several similar suggestions on youtube for cleaning rust off of small garden tools.   All those suggestions start by soaking the tools overnight in white vinegar (some use a jar, others use a tray, or wrap the tools in vinegar-soaked paper towels).   The next day, use some baking soda and an old toothbrush to brush the rusty areas, rinse off and thoroughly dry the tools, then cover them with a light coat of mineral oil, or some other light oil, for protection.

(Just do a youtube search for "How To Remove Rust From Garden Tools", and watch a few of those videos for yourself, to see some of the slight variations.)

[Jamestown1630]

You can clean off those pans and rings of stovetop burners by putting them in baggies with a tablespoon of ammonia, and letting them sit overnight (preferably outside). Next day they will scrub- or dishwasher-off very easily. We’ve made them look new that way.

[Sacajaweau]

I’m 76....decades is right......LOL

[WVNan]

I buy Sulfur soap for my skin. I remember my grandparents using Saltpeter for something but forget what.

[SandwicheGuy]

It cleans up bad culture.

[mountainfolk]

Our wasps were unreachable so that was not an option. Last year I experienced a wasp sting also, face swelled and hurt so bad I went to emergency and stayed several hours till the swelling went down after medication. They are tenacious once they decide to attack and are mean with a vengeance.

[Keyhopper]

Coffee grounds have lots of acid in them. Make sure your plants like acid. Pour the grounds on ant hill, they don't like them.😃