Baking soda is an impressive substance with a lot of potential uses. If we aren't using it to help cakes rise, we're adding it to cleaning products for a better scrubbing action and whiter result. It...

Soap is an essential tool in our day-to-day life that we assume has to be one of the safest products around. After all, we use it on our skin, dishes, and our clothes with the assurance that it will...

I talk about a lot of different substances in these guides and this is one that you will either find pretty interesting or a bit disgusting. Still, there are so many questions on the subject that it...

Popular culture has a habit of making alcohol look like a highly dangerous and flammable substance, especially hard liquor. People are always lighting it on fire to drink, using it as fuel in a fire,...

There is little that is more essential for life than oxygen. Even a short-term lack of this gas can be life-threatening. But is there ever a point where it becomes dangerous? Is oxygen flammable, is...

We all know that there are some gases you don't want to expose to open flames. But what about helium? There are a couple of reasons why I felt it was important to look at the questions of whether...