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THE EFFECTS OF BAKING SODA TO HOUSEHOLD PESTS


AS AN ALTERNATIVE PESTICIDES AND INSECTICIDES

A Proposal Presented to Asia Technological School


of Science and Arts
Santa Rosa City

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the


Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Almazan, Ian
Bautista, Eliana Faey Louise E.
Cruzado, Anamarie L.
Palileo, Jerry Anne
Tatlonghari, Zyra Margarita A.

February 2021
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CHAPTER 1:
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

The opening chapter emphasized the need for research

not only to solve problems and difficulties but also to

expand the frontier of knowledge and to improve the quality

of social life. This chapter deals with the guideline in

writing the problem and its background, which starts with

the introduction.

INTRODUCTION

• Baking soda or the Sodium Bicarbonate is a

chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3. The

composition consists of a salt as well as an acid

mineral, sodium cation (Na+) and bicarbonate anion

(HCO3−). White solid that is crystalline in nature form

and usually appears as a fine powder. This base mineral

has a wide range of uses. This can be used in plants,

for food, odor control, for health purposes, as a

cleaning agent and as well as for pest control. One of

the most important things about baking soda is that

natural and not toxic to plants, the environment,


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animals, and humans. Baking soda is popularly used in

food as a leavening agent.

• Baking soda as an insecticide can be used as a

natural pest control remedy against a wide variety of

pests. These include roaches, bed bugs, slugs, ants

including a wide variety of undesirable bugs. When

baking soda is ingested by insects, it releases carbon

dioxide bubbles which is fatal and poisons or kills

them. Baking soda not only will kill it’s ingested but

also an effective agent when it comes in contact with

the body of pests.


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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The research generally focuses on using baking soda as

an alternative pesticide and insecticide. The researchers

decided to compare baking soda and the commercial or normal

pesticide and insecticide.

The main problem of the study is to know if the baking soda

will be effective as a pesticide and insecticide to

household pests

The researchers are aim to answer the specific questions:

1. Is there an effect of baking soda pesticide and

insecticide in terms of:

A. Cockroaches

B. Ants

C. Mosquitos

2. Does baking soda is much more effective against pest

than regular pesticides and insecticides?


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HYPOTHESIS

Ho: Baking soda is more convenient than the commercial

or branded pesticide and insecticide

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study aims to establish if a baking soda is

effective as a household alternative pesticide and

insecticide. This kind of pesticide and an insecticide can

lessen the exhaust of those person that will benefits on our

study, for the reason of this can be use by those people who

cannot afford to buy branded insecticides and pesticides

therefore it can use this an alternative product since the

research product is made up of inexpensive ingredients that

can be found at home. This study could be of importance to

the following:

Future Research - This idea presented may be use as

reference data in conducting new researchers or in testing

the validity of other related findings. This study will also

serve as their cross reference that will give them a

background or an overview on how effective is the baking

soda as a home alternative pesticide and insecticide.


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Parents - The outcome of this study will facilitate them in

case they neglect to acquire a branded insecticide and

pesticide, it will also reduce their household expenses. The

findings of this research will enlighten and become

beneficial to the parents.

Gardener - The information presented will illuminate them

that the baking soda can be used to kill insects and pest in

their garden. They will be gaining insight that there are

things in the kitchen that can be an alternative pesticide

and an insecticide.

Janitors - This study will profit them in the view of the

fact that by any chance that they experience or undergo that

they clean a lot with insects then they do not have an

availability of insecticides and pesticides they can make

this product for the reason that the ingredients of it are

tacky.
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SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY

This study will focus on the effectiveness of baking

soda as a household alternative pesticide and insecticide.

The subjects that will be included in this research will be

baking soda and other substances such as dishwashing liquid,

oil, water, and a spray container. One of the researchers

will do the experiment twice in the house.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

The following terms are conceptually and operationally

defined:
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Sought. Is a person or thing has been looked for or

requested.

Exhaust. Drain (someone) of their physical or mental

resources; tire out.

Facilitate. To make something possible or easier.

Baking Soda. Sodium bicarbonate, commonly known as baking

soda or bicarbonate of soda, is a chemical compound with the

formula NaHCO₃.

Alternative. An alternative plan or method is one that you

can use if you do not want to use another one.

Dishwashing liquid. Known as dishwashing soap, dish

detergent and dish soap, is a detergent used to assist in

dishwashing. In addition to its primary use, dishwashing

liquid also has various informal applications, such as for

creating bubbles, clothes washing and cleaning oil-affected

birds.

Significant. Sufficiently great or important to be worthy of

attention; noteworthy.

Insects. A small invertebrate animal, especially one with

several pairs of legs and one or two pairs of wings.

CHAPTER 2:
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REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE AND


STUDIES
This chapter is about the literatures and studies. It

will further discuss the foreign and local studies behind

the subject to moreover elaborate the studies correlation.

Related Studies

According to University of Florida Institute of Food

and Agricultural Sciences (2015), the researchers used

ingredients as simple as crushed seashells and vinegar to

create carbon dioxide gas to trap disease-carrying bugs like

mosquitoes and black flies. The researchers also tested the

compounds at the UF/IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Lab in

Vero Beach and at a site in Burkina Faso, a nation in

western Africa, where diseases like malaria and river

blindness prevail. When they used their new method of

producing carbon dioxide to bait mosquito traps in Florida

and black fly traps in Africa, the traps attracted up to 25

times more disease-carrying bugs than did traps that did not

have the bait. Up to 6,000 mosquitoes were caught in a


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single trap baited with baking soda and citric acid the same

acid found in citrus fruits.

Removal of pesticide residues from fresh produce is

important to reduce pesticide exposure to humans. This study

investigated the effectiveness of commercial and homemade

washing agents in the removal of surface and internalized

pesticide residues from apples. Surface-enhanced Raman

scattering (SERS) mapping and liquid chromatography tandem

mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) methods were used to determine

the effectiveness of different washing agents in removing

pesticide residues. Surface pesticide residues were most

effectively removed by sodium bicarbonate (baking soda,

NaHCO3) solution when compared to either tap water or Clorox

bleach. Research by (Clark et al., 2017)

According to (Thompson, 2017) Baking soda removes up to

96 percent of pesticides from fruit and vegetables, new

research reveals. When mixed with water and gently rubbed on

apple skins, the kitchen staple eliminates nearly all the

reside left by two commonly-applied pesticides within 15

minutes, a study found. This method is more effective than

the standard procedure of applying a type of bleach to the


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fruit for two minutes, the research adds. Previous research

reveals baking soda breaks down pesticides due to its

highly-alkaline pH, which causes the chemicals to fragment

into harmless molecules.

According to (Anonymous,2017) a 15-minute soak in a 1

percent baking soda solution removed 20 percent of one

common pesticide from apples and 4.4 percent of another.

This sounded like an easy and promising method for getting

rid of at least some pesticide residue from produce, so the

researchers decided to give it a try. First, purchased

pesticide detection cards that can identify commonly used

pesticides. (The cards detect pesticides that fall into two

general types based on their chemistry: carbamates and

organophosphates.) Each card contains a white disk and a

pink disk. The white disk is pressed onto the test area;

after giving the chemicals in it time to react, the pink

disk is pressed against the white disk so that a second

reaction can occur. The presence of pesticide residue is

indicated by the degree to which the disk changes from white

to blue. If the disk stays white, this indicates a high

concentration of pesticide residue. But if the disk turns


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blue, this indicates very little to no residue. We then

submerged some of the grapes in the baking soda solution and

set a timer for 15 minutes. After each treatment, we rinsed

the grapes in water, dried them, and applied the test cards.

Soaking and swirling in the baking soda solution were the

only two methods that turned the cards blue, indicating that

both were effective at removing pesticides.

According to Alice Graves and Kate Qualmann (2017). New

research is into the science of baking soda is focusing on

larger-scale applications of baking soda’s cleaning and

absorbent properties. In fruit production, it has proved

useful in removing pesticides from the surface of eating

apples more efficiently than commercial sanitizers. This is

due to the chemical degradation of the pesticide when it

comes into contact with the sodium bicarbonate salt. There

may also be industrial-scale cleaning potential for coal-

fired power plants and other industrial facilities where

sodium bicarbonate can be used as a cost-effective solution

to neutralize flue gases – acting to both reduce air

emissions and generate a marketable product.


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Related Literature

As indicated by (Sanders, 2018) Duck, cover and run:

These evasive maneuvers are usually performed by someone

trying to escape a bee or mosquito. Not only are the latter

irritating, but in some areas, they pose a real health

threat because they carry diseases. Mosquito repellents

usually work to mask your scent. This is because mosquitoes

smell their food -- they can smell carbon dioxide from more

than 150 feet away, according to WebMD. Instead of masking

your scent, lure mosquitoes away by making your own carbon

dioxide trap with vinegar and baking soda.

As per the article, baking soda alters the body’s pH

balance. While it’s okay for humans, in ants, it’s deadly.

When the ants eat the baking soda, it reacts with the ant’s

digestive chemicals and produces carbon dioxide. Some

internet theories say that the baking soda will make ants

explode. While we don’t know that for sure, we do know that

it dries out their bodies to kill them. To understand how

the baking soda method can be effective, just think about

how ants live and behave. Ants live in colonies, and


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different ants have different roles to play. Some ants tend

to the eggs after the queen ant lays them, while others are

tasked with going out and collecting food. The worker ants

that go out to find food bring that food back to the colony

to feed the other ants. So when they pick up your baking

soda mixture and take it back to the nest, they’re actually

helping to kill all of the other ants in their colony.

(Anonymous, The Safe and Non-Toxic Way, 2020)

Some people think that the only people who have roaches

in their homes are those who live in squalor and filth. Such

is far from the case. Every home has the potential to have a

cockroach problem, and while you're sitting here reading

this article, you may have a few roaches in the walls of

your home without realizing it. If you're concerned about

pesticides in your home because you have pets and children,

you can use a simple solution of sugar and baking soda to

kill them. Neither substance is harmful to humans or pets,

but the solution is lethal for roaches. The sweet smell of

sugar entices the roach out of hiding to eat it, as well as

the baking soda. Then, when the roach drinks water, the

baking soda reacts, creating gas inside of the roach which


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causes its stomach to burst, killing the roach. Since other

roaches feed on dead roaches, they also acquire the fatal

substance and subsequently die. (Donnerman, Kill Roaches

with Baking Soda and Sugar, 2018)

SYNTHESIS

The research about baking soda has been going since its

conceptualization. Cluttered homes have the largest

potential for a roach problem since there are lots of stuffs

in our house. Even Doris Donnerman (2008) found that even a

clean home can contain roaches if it is cluttered, According

to International Journal of Advanced Research, Boric acid

(BA) and baking soda (BS) were mixed in the combinations of

30BA+10BS; 20BA+20BS; 10BA+30BS and prepared as pellets

(0.5,2,4,6,8g) with the same binding material. The death

time reduced with the increasing pellet size, in killing

cockroaches on an average death time of 5hrs. While

Researchers of University of Florida Institute of Food and

Agricultural Sciences used ingredients as simple as crushed

seashells and vinegar to create carbon dioxide to trap

disease-carrying bugs like mosquitoes and black flies.


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Although when they used their new method of producing carbon

dioxide to bait mosquito traps. Up to 6,000 mosquitoes were

caught in a single trap baited with baking soda and citric

acid. Inga Cryton (2021) determined that If an insect

ingests the baking soda, this gas will release into their

digestive tract and eventually burst the lining, killing

them. Although Marylee Gowans (2020) expanded on Cryton's

original study that baking soda can also help kill

undesirable bugs found in the house without dangerous and

potentially harmful chemicals.


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CHAPTER 3:

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