When baking soda (a base) and distilled white vinegar (an acid) are combined, they will fizz to help loosen grime and minerals in the tank so they can be scrubbed away with less effort.

Baking soda has many uses around the home, and it also can be used to kill cockroaches. However, the insects need to actually ingest the baking soda for it to be effective.

Baking is a science, which allows for less improvising with a recipe compared to cooking. So when do you need baking powder ...

If you don't have one or the other when a recipe calls for it, it is somewhat possible to do a substitution. Just make sure you don't add too much baking soda — it's three to four times stronger ...

Baking soda and certain metals do not go hand in hand. For one, you won't want to use baking soda to clean your jewelry, Logan Taylor, the founder of The Dazzle Cleaning Company, explains.

If you have curtains, pillows, dry-clean-only clothes or anything else that isn’t washable but needs to be freshened up, baking soda can do that! Add 1 cup of baking soda to a Mason jar.

"Baking powder contains both sodium bicarbonate and a powdered acid, so it only needs moisture and heat to activate," Thomason says. But if it's 10 p.m. the night before a bake sale and you find ...