A cleaning fan has shared her favourite natural ingredient for making sure her home is sparkling clean. TikToker Christy, who goes by @christyytiktok, shared her love for baking soda and its incredible cleaning powers.
In a video from early in the month, Christy shared how baking soda can be used to tackle bad smells emanating from your bedroom mattress. To get rid of unwanted odours, all you need is a liberal amount of baking soda – no need for a convoluted solution. Before sprinkling any baking soda, you should remove all the bed linen from the mattress, as well as any mattress toppers.
Once the mattress has been stripped, shake a liberal amount of baking soda all over the mattress.
Leave the baking soda for half an hour, before vacuuming up this. This works to eliminate any bad smells there may be.
Baking soda works as a natural deodoriser, helping to remove the smells left by sweat, body oils, as well as dust which has built up on the mattress.
Its neutralising and absorbent properties help to draw out moisture and other odour-causing particles from the mattress fibres.
If you’re also attempting to remove stains from the mattress, you can also use a bit of white vinegar to do the job.
Perfect Clean explained that when the baking soda and vinegar are combined, the chemical reaction produces water and carbon dioxide.
This is the process which helps to loosen and lift stains. The Sleep Foundation also explained how you can use a baking soda paste solution to tackle urine stains on mattresses.
Daniel Noyed, Senior Product Editor for The Sleep Foundation, said: “Baking soda paste is an old go-to stain and odor fighter, and many people have the ingredients lying around. My grandmother taught me about it ages ago when my younger cousins were wetting the bed, and I still use it today for all kinds of stains. It’s that good.”
The video has been viewed over 99,200 times, receiving 13,800 likes and 52 comments. Elli said: “Baking soda is basically for everything.”
Tiia said, “Making notes,” while another commented, “Looove these tips.”
