Washing your face with a high concentration of baking soda can disrupt the pH balance of your skin, leading to dryness and loss of facial skin moisture, and people with sensitive skin are prone to tingling, redness and swelling, and even infections.

Baking soda is weakly alkaline, with a pH value of 9, while human skin is slightly acidic, and the pH value of healthy skin is about 5.0 to 5.6, which is not conducive to the survival of bacteria, and has a protective effect on the human body. Using overly alkaline ingredients can destroy and damage the skin's natural barrier, and can also lead to significant moisture loss and impair the skin's ability to regulate itself.

You can use a diluted solution of baking soda, which is prepared in a ratio of 1:5000 baking soda to water, i.e., 5000 ml of water is used to dissolve 1 gram of baking soda. After washing your face with this formulated water can make the capillaries dilate, making your skin shiny, rosy and elastic.

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The wonderful use of baking soda

1, relief of colds and stomach aches: baking soda water is an aqueous solution of sodium bicarbonate, is a weak alkaline, when sick, moderate drinking some can maintain the acid-base balance in the body, change the acidic body, so that viruses and disease-causing bacteria can not survive in the body. In addition, baking soda water can quickly neutralize stomach acid, stomach ulcers, stomach pain has a very good effect on pain.

2, remove the odor: put a box of baking soda in the refrigerator, can effectively get rid of the odor, and keep food fresh. In addition, sprinkle some baking soda in the shoes can remove the odor of the shoes, but also to avoid the fungus, to prevent ringworm.

3, anti-mold: baking soda into a paper bag or box, put into your drawer or closet, can play a dry, anti-mold role.

4, decontamination magic weapon: stove, sink, tile, toilet, etc. are available baking soda decontamination.

5, eliminate the skin foreign body: if the hands or other parts of the skin pricked, available baking soda soak pricked parts, usually two days after the foreign body can disappear.

6, stop itching: baking soda water or baking soda powder coated in mosquito bites on the skin, can quickly stop itching, but also to prevent bites again.

7, anti-sunburn: summer bath, add about 200 ml of baking soda in the warm bath water, do not use a towel after washing, let the body dry naturally, can prevent summer sunburn.

8, and noodles: home steamed buns, buns, add some baking soda in the flour (ratio of 10:3) and noodles, not only can neutralize the acidity of the flour, eat the texture will feel more fluffy.

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