Why use baking soda in paint?
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Some people use it to give a chalky look to the paint by adding 1/2 cup for 1 cup latex paint. Here is a tutorial on it: https://www.hometalk.com/diy/paint/furniture/how-baking-soda-can-change-the-way-you-paint-in-just-5-minutes-30024176?expand_all_questions=1
How Baking Soda Can Change the Way You Paint—in Just 5 Minutes
It can give a chalk paint look!
Some people use baking soda for their homemade chalk paint recipe.
It's an inexpensive way to make chalk paint
Baking soda in paint gives it texture and helps it stick to slippery surfaces.
It makes you paint textured
Hi Penny, adding baking soda to paint gives it a new cool texture, it is a very forgiving paint when covering imperfections. Here is my recipe for chalk paint, hope it helps you out.
2/3 cup acrylic water base house paint (I used Simply White) 1/3 cup baking soda. 1 1/2 tablespoons cool water to make the paint non-grainy and smooth-but still thick (start with just a little and add more as needed)