As we have documented pretty thoroughly on this site, baking soda and vinegar are each super-handy around the house. Baking soda is a natural deodorizer and a fine abrasive — that’s good for odor absorption and scrubbing. Vinegar’s acid cuts through grease and shines things up, making it a winner for cleaning hard surfaces like countertops and windows.
So naturally the next thought is: If they work so well separately, shouldn’t they work even better together? When you combine them, they create an amazing middle-school-science-experiment-level fizzing sensation, which must be doing something, right? But baking soda is a base, and vinegar is an acid — and your high school science teacher probably taught you that the two cancel each other out, right? If they cancel each other out, aren’t you losing the cleaning benefits of each of them?
I set out to get to the bottom of this.
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