by Susan Doyle
Interesting
Home Remedies
The following are submitted for information purposes, I have marked those I have tried and liked with (**). It is amazing what we can think of in a pinch.
Beer conditions the hair when used as a rinse after shampooing.**
Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish.**
Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 min
Mayonnaise will kill Lice, (it will also condition your hair.**)
Spike your hair with Close-up tooth paste, it will also give it a cool tint (less chemically damaging than gel or spray)
Paint Elmer's Glue on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads.
Use brewed Lipton Tea or apple cider vinegar as a rinse to give shine to your hair. **
Soothe Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water or do the same with oatmeal
Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!
Bee stings - mud from your yard or (meat tenderizer made into a paste with vinegar.**)
Chigger bite - Preparation H
Preparation H can be used to remove eye puffiness! Cucumbers work
too.**
Paper cut - crazy glue or Chap Stick. Glue is used instead of sutures at most hospitals lately. If it's a big cut & you don't have glue, duct tape works great.
Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Use Vapor Rub or Tea Tree Oil rubbed in twice daily.
Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint
Kool Aid in Dannon plain yogurt can be used as a finger paint, "Your kids will love it and it won't hurt them if they eat it!"
Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe off with a coffee filter paper
Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray
Pam will remove paint, and grease from your hands! Keep a can in your garage. Pam also works to spray on things outside that you don't want your kids, squirrels, raccoons (etc) climbing on, re-apply as necessary.
Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls
When doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch and watch them slide on.
Heavy dandruff - pour on apple cider vinegar! It works great to strip off conditioner/gel/hair spray residue when your hair gets limp.**
Body paint - Crisco mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave, pour into a empty film container and mix with the food color of your choice!
Tie Dye T-Shirt - mix a solution of Kool Aid in a container, tie a rubber band around a section of the t-shirt and soak.
Preserving a newspaper clipping - large bottle of club soda and 1/2 cup of milk of magnesia, soak for 20 min and let dry, will last for years!
Pampers as an absorbent! Remove stains from the carpet with club soda, and a pamper to absorb.
Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the salt. **
Also good to put a diaper in your First Aid Kit - great for those big bleeders since we don't usually carry bandages to deal with more than minor scrapes.
To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb into the towel. **
Remove labels from glassware etc.- Rub with peanut butter!
Baked on food - fill container with water, get a bounce from the laundry room and the static from the bounce towel will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. Also; you can use two Efferdent tablets and soak overnight!
Crayon on the wall - Colgate toothpaste and brush it!
Dirty grout – Listerine brushed into the grout.
Grease Stains- Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight. We also know it will take corrosion from batteries. It even works to dissolve stains in your toilet! **
Sweat Stains - Efferdent, or white vinegar
Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax- sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours. **
To kill mushrooms that pop up in your lawn - Sprinkle with Desenex Foot Powder
To Keep FRESH FLOWERS longer try one of these tips - Add a little Clorox, a couple of teaspoons of sugar, 2 Bayer aspirin, or just use 7-up instead of water! **
Use hydrogen peroxide to dissolve fresh blood stains out of your clothes,etc. **
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