Baking soda bath to deacidify newsprint? I have some oil-pastel sketches on newsprint I would like to treat for framing (and longevity). My plan is to rinse them in a deacidifying bath, then use wheat paste to wet-mount them to heavyweight pH-neutral 100% rag paper. And finally, to frame them with UV-protective glass recommended for art. 

My question is this: Is there any reason not to use baking soda for the deacidifying bath? 

I have experimented with it, and it seems to work great. I used a garden-soil pH test solution before and after, and sure enough, the treated paper shows no sign of acidity. The wheat paste bond seems just as good with the treated newsprint as with the untreated newsprint. The oil pastel colors seem unaffected (not surprising, oil pastel being very water-resistant).

Is there anything about sodium bicarbonate that might, over time, cause a visible effect on the paper?
It seems that adding bicarbonate is how acid-free paper is made, though more modern paper is neutralized by the use of chalk as filler. The wiki page says that magnesium or calcium bicarbonate are commonly used, but that may be just due to cost rather than any specific issues with using sodium bicarbonate. Source