Baking soda: we all have it in our cupboards and yet most of us would have no idea of the myriad alternative uses for this versatile white powder. Baking soda can be used for so much more than baking, and this video shows you five of the best possible household uses.

And this one shows you some brilliant beauty uses for baking soda

There are a heap of other uses for baking soda too. I sometimes use it to raise the pH of my fish water. What other uses do you know of?