Arm & Hammer Pure Baking Soda

Arm & Hammer Pure Baking Soda is the familiar one‑pound cardboard box of fine white powder that most shoppers recognize by sight and scentless feel. In stores you’ll typically find it in the baking aisle next to flours, sugars, baking powder and other leavening agents, and many supermarkets also cross‑merchandise it in the household cleaners aisle with odor absorbers and stain removers. It suits grocery runs for holiday baking, weekly meal prep, or emergency storm‑prep kits where multiuse staples are sought. The brand positions itself as an all‑American, dependable household staple — heritage messaging aimed at families and practical shoppers who value frugality, multipurpose utility, and a long‑standing trusted name. Packaging and label language lean into a “pure” and “natural” halo (“pure Baking Soda,” “natural odor eliminator”) but do not carry organic certification; the box is plain, utilitarian and often marketed toward parents and homemakers rather than kids. In plain processing terms, it’s a single listed ingredient — sodium bicarbonate — produced and packaged industrially but not blended with additives. Sensory and ritual details matter more in use than taste: a dry, talc‑like powder with no aroma, measured by teaspoon for cakes and cookies, sprinkled into smelly refrigerators, dissolved for cleaning pastes, or used in foot soaks; the cardboard box is opened and pinched to pour or spoon. Its everyday story in American grocery culture is practicality: a low‑cost, multipurpose item that sits on pantry shelves as both a cooking ally and a go‑to home remedy.