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1. jskell911 says

   July 29, 2009 at 5:46 am

   This is great to know! Thanks for sharing

2. Vicki H. says

   July 29, 2009 at 1:38 pm

   If you're ever outside where there's no Baking soda, you can use mud too (although one would want to be a little discriminate about what dirt they're using to make the mud). i'm not sure it's more or less effective than baking soda, but the old school families that use the baking soda paste, also use mud when that's all there is, and it's effective.

3. Eryn S says

   July 29, 2009 at 2:13 pm

   We used the baking soda paste on my daughters bee sting in May. It worked so well and she never said a word about it. She doesn't even remember being stung.

   Baking soda is an extractor. You can also use it to get the green, from swimming, out of hair. And if you have well water you can use it to get the excess metal out of your hair. Just make sure to use lots of conditioner after, it will dry it out.

4. Anonymous says

   July 29, 2009 at 4:09 pm

   Mom used that while I was growing up and now I use it on my own 5 children. We were once at a family reunion when one of the children were stung, we didn't have close access to baking soda, but there were a few smokers. They kindly gave us some tobacco to make a paste with. If you add saliva to tabacco it will take the sting out.

5. Adriana says

   July 30, 2009 at 9:36 am

   You can also use this on mosquito bites. However, it does tend to flake and fall off if you move all it.

6. Amy says

   August 2, 2009 at 12:12 am

   Anonymous – Thank you for your comment! It is funny that you mentioned tobacco, because my father said the same thing… he just didn't know how to "make it work." Great idea! Thanks!

   Vicki – I didn't know that mud would work, too. Thank you so much for that tip! It is definitely nice to know for when you don't have baking soda handy!