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Curing heat rash is actually a fast and simple matter but we can always complicate things, simply by visiting the drug store.

Standing in front of the display shelves, one can spend hours, just gawking at the hundreds of promises for instant cure. You will find every color and shape. I'm sure that reading all the labels, might be considered entertainment, by some.

We have become so inundated with super cures, we forget the basics of life and how simply things can actually be.

Ask the pharmacist, and I'm sure he will give you 2 or 3 suggested products, that should do the job. You will never hear the plain, bare truth that your great-grandmother knew.

Curing a heat rash, is as simple as curing a diaper rash, or a sunburn but we run to the authorities, to tell us what miracle cure will work. After all, how could grand-mother have been as smart as today's educated pharmacist?

Of course, the drug store can offer a solution. That is, if they happen to have baking soda, on their shelves. Wait! Baking Soda?

Just because we bake, with it, doesn't mean it has no other possible use. As a matter of fact, your great-grandmother relied on it for all sorts of things.

Baking soda used to be the only tooth paste. There's baking soda in your minty toothpaste, still today. Baking soda is great in the laundry, as it softens the water. As a result, the soap is rinsed away much more efficiently.

Baking soda does a great job of cleaning the kitchen sink. When you have a grease spill, in the kitchen, sprinkle soda over it before trying to clean it up. You will find the soda absorbs the grease, making it easire to clean up. If something catches fire, on your stove top, sprinkle soda over it.

Plain, old fashioned baking soda is a little miracle in the home. Add a quarter cup to the laundry and smell the freshness, it ads to your clothes. Because it softens the water, all the soap rinses out and no residue, is left behind.

A quarter cup of baking soda in the bath tub, will soak away just about any rash and that includes heat rash.

If the baby has diaper rash, sit his little bottom in soda water and watch a miracle happen. The same thing goes for sunburn. Soak in a tub of soda water.

Heartburn? How about a quarter teaspoon of soda in a glass of water? It may take a few minutes but not only will the acid vanish, but your esophagus, throat and stomach have also been bathed in a soothing solution. The heartburn doesn't come right back because the irritation has been calmed.

It seems to me, I started out to explain how to cure heat rash, and wound up praising baking soda. Listen to grandmother-when you have heat rash, take a tub soak in soda water.

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