Baking soda
Arm & Hammer
Sure, you normally grab Arm & Hammer when you need baking soda. It pretty much dominates the market. But baking soda is baking soda, right?
Maybe not.
As readers know, I've ditched shampoo and conditioner in favorite of the more earth-friendly and me-friendly baking soda and apple cider vinegar.
I was using up the baking soda in a box my mother-in-law gave me that was a drug store brand. It worked fine.
I finally ran out of that one and busted into my four-pound Arm & Hammer baking soda.
Holy cow. I felt like I was in a shampoo commercial. My hair actually felt silkier while I rubbed in the baking soda solution. By the time I was trying my hair, I was tossing it around like a Pantene model.
I'd figured that my hair wasn't going to be exactly the same with baking soda as it was with shampoo. Turns out I was just using the wrong baking soda.
Ninety-nine percent of the time, I advocate store brands or small business brands. But I think Arm & Hammer has the market for a reason.
With baking soda such a wonderful nontoxic cleaning resource (for your home and body), having the right brand can make a difference in giving you something effective enough that you stick with it in lieu of more harmful commercial products.
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Product review: Arm & Hammer baking soda
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Julie Todd
Julie Todd is the night editor at The Herald News in Joliet. She and her
husband are looking to cut the chemicals and get back to basics -- minus the
granola and hemp clothing. They live in a home they bought last year in
Plainfield, where they're making changes to create their own little patch of
utopia.
Both my mother and grandmother were raised in country settings where more work and cleaning was done by hand and with what you had on hand and they swear by Arm & Hammer for LOTS of cleaning.
I am curious to know about your hair though. I wanted to try being shampoo-free but wondered how your hair looks and feels to you now after having used baking soda for a while. Can you update us on that?