Pure Sodium Bicarbonate Baking Soda - Natural First Aid & Household Essential for Cooking, Cleaning, and Skin Care

It was either James Thurber or Robert Benchley that once said that pidgeons are boring. That you could dress up a pidgin in little tuxedos or diamond jewelry (not exactly what which one of them actually said, but it makes the point intended to be made) and they would still be boring.The same thing could be said of baking soda. I have always avoided getting worked up about the acid/alkaline issue not because doubted there was some value in it, but because something in me just knew that no matter how relevant, nothing an author can say would make facts about baking soda un-boring.The best thing I can remember getting excited about baking soda, was when I was a kid and you could get a small plastic submarine in Cracker Jacks or some breakfast cereal that had a place you could fill with baking soda and then put it in a container of water and it was supposed to submerge and then come back up again, which it did rather poorly, but it did it, thanks to good old reliable baking soda.Yet I just paid some crazy amount of money to send for 'food grade' or some other fancy named baking soda of the finest degree, to enhance my health and comfort my kidneys while in my heart I believe that the box of baking soda I got for 99 cents only is just as good. But as the Archie McSomething Catalog said, 'you will probably only buy one rubber chicken in Your life, so why not get the very best?'The author of this book did good job of giving information on a zillion things that baking soda is and can do, and I got a lot farther than I thought I would get in reading the book. But I feel satisfied knowing that the very best baking soda will soon be prominently displayed in my kitchen cabinet.I have reviewed a lot of books recently which I thought were of little value other than the writer taking a shot at making money off of some recent fad diet name or other 'trending' point that people into social media will buy. This is not one of those books, the author is clearly giving you all the information you will ever need to know to appreciate baking soda and to make decisions about what baking soda should be in your own life.I will put this book on the shelf and I betcha a time will come that I need to check some baking soda fact and will be able to do so easily and accurately because I have this book. It is unlikely that there will ever be any new information about baking soda that requires me to get another book .Perhaps the zippered padded hoodie that came on my 'Northern Exposure' DVD's will fit this book, and I may still have some pop beads from the 50's that I can adorn it with. But like pidgeons, no matter what an author can do, baking soda will always be boring. Most of my like I could open a cupboard somewhere in my home and see that trusty gold box with the arm and hammer. And use it as I chose but did not have to read about it.However I do happen to have a really great, and absolutely true baking soda story that you will never forget..Years ago at a thanksgiving gathering of UFO and survivalist people at my home, a girl staying at my ranch at the time was really impressed by 'left over hippie from the 60's' mystique, and badly wanted to get into the conversation. She told the group that she had put together an emergency backpack in case the 'big one' hit. My ranch is within a mile of the San Andreas fault line, but I could not see the value of putting on a backpack and hiking off into the desert away from where everything you could possibly need, such as stored water and food was.I asked her what she planned to do out in the desert. . She said she could weave rope out of natural desert plants, and she had a lot of baking soda in the back pack so she could smell fresh.Having read this book I now understand how much more she could have done with all that baking soda.