cool natural everyday useful stuff

[rockergrl]

My cousin showed me this, I don't know who she got it from, but it's pretty interesting.


GOOD FACTS TO KNOW:

1. Budweiser beer conditions the hair
2. Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish
3. Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes
4. Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair
5. Elmer's Glue - paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads if any

6. Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea
7. Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water
8. Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste
9. Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!
10. Arthritis? WD-40 Spray and rub in, kill insect stings too

11 Bee stings - meat tenderizer
12. Chigger bite - Preparation H
13. Puffy eyes - Preparation H
14. Paper cut - crazy glue or chap stick (glue is used instead of sutures at most hospitals)
15. Stinky feet - Jello !

16. Athletes feet - cornstarch
17. Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks vapor rub
18. Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet. (Wow, and we drink this stuff)
19. Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint also Kool Aid in Dannon plain yogurt as a finger paint, your kids will love it and it won't hurt them if they eat it!
20. Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe off with a coffee filter paper

21. Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray
22. Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands! Keep a can in your garage for your hubby
23. Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls
24. When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch and watch them slide on
25. Heavy dandruff - pour on the vinegar !

26. Body paint - Crisco mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave, pour in to an empty film container and mix with the food color of your choice!
27 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
28. Preserving a newspaper clipping - large bottle of club soda and cup of milk of magnesia , soak for 20 min. and let dry, will last for many years!
29. A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!
30. To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate toothpaste

31. Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the salt.
32. To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb into the towel.
33. Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with Peanut butter!
34. Baked on food - fill container with water, get a Bounce paper softener and the static from the Bounce towel will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. Also; you can use 2 Efferdent tablets , soak overnight!
35. Crayon on the wall - Colgate toothpaste and brush it!

36. Dirty grout - Listerine
37. Stains on clothes - Colgate toothpaste
38. Grass stains - Karo Syrup
39. Grease Stains - Coca Cola , it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight. We know it will take corrosion from car batteries!
40. Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax- sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours. Maybe this will work if you get them back again.
41. To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little Clorox , or 2 Bayer aspirin , or just use 7-up instead of water.

42. When you go to buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever wondered which is the freshest, so you 'squeeze' for freshness or softness? Did you know that bread is delivered fresh to the stores five days a week? Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Each day has a different color twist tie.
They are:
Monday = Blue
Tuesday = Green
Thursday = Red
Friday = White
Saturday = Yellow.
So if today was Thursday, you would want a red twist tie; not white which is Fridays (almost a week old)! The colors go alphabetically by color Blue- Green - Red - White - Yellow, Monday through Saturday. Very easy to remember. I thought this was interesting. I looked in the grocery store and the bread wrappers DO have different twist ties, and even the ones with the plastic clips have different colors. You learn something new everyday! Enjoy fresh bread when you buy bread with the right color on the day you are shopping.

Don't forget Gatorade for Migraine Headaches. PowerAde won't work. Pass this information on to friends so they can be informed

[Cat]

This is amazingly awesome information.

If only I lived there :<

And er

What's the difference between Powerade and Gatorade?

[LaFille]

Eek, I would be so wary to try some of this... especially WD-40 skin rubbing!

But that bread thing, I'll have to check if it's so here; that would be so cool!!

Concentrated Kool-aid makes the best temporary hair dye too; try it for halloween or a one-day/night event. Rinsing removes it though.

For oily hair: lemon juice or egg white is said to bee good to get rid of it. Lemon juice to also give it slight highlights.

To slow oxidation on cut fruits and vegetables, rub them with a lemon half.

To remove chewing gum stuck on something, rub it with ice before; it will make it more solid and come in one piece.

For flowers, the 7up thing is true; it has to be not the diet one though. The sugar feeds them and citric acid protects some against bacteria (same for chlore).

To prevent your pet from relieving itself again on its favorite spot in your house, spray it with diluted vinegar.

If someone has an asthma crisis, give him coffee.

Coffee also helps for headaches. For headaches, tying a very tight headband around your head (a la Rambo, very tight) makes wonders. When you have a headache the big veins on your head get very dilated and so having them constrict (what the coffee and headband do) will help get rid of the pain.

Baking soda in bath water helps soothing itchy skin, insect bites, chickenpox/zona rash. brushing teeth with it whitens them. It removes bad smell efficiently.

[Galadriel]

Very interesting, we call it Home-, garden- and kitchen tips.

If you have a lot of calcium oxide in your toilet or sink, pour the remains of a cola bottle (the rest that no one drinks anyway) in it and let it soak for a while. Works also for prostetic dentures.

Instead of buying those expensive electric scents, place a small bowl on your radiator and add water with Mr Proper or scented oil.

If you use a tumble dryer, fill up an old sock with some washing powder and tie it in a knob. Place the sock in the tumble dryer and your laundry will smell fresh. Cheaper then buying those expensive scented tumble dryer towels.

Your cooker can be cleaned up with car cleaner. Makes it a lot easier to keep it clean too.

After you washed your windows, use old newspapers to make the windows shiny

[Elliot Kane]

It's scary how many problems have a really simple cure - if people only know what it is. Makes you think, eh?

[Galadriel]

If you look in the cupboards under people's sinks, you would find an entire collection of cleaning products, for all sorts of jobs, while you can do just about the same with lemon, peanut butter and soda. Sure makes you think why we spend soo much money on that chemical stuff right

[The Sonar Chicken]

To ward off roaches, you use pandan leaves instead of insecticides. <--- Great for those who live near an Asian market or who grow this plant at home.

[twoheadedragon]

Jul 8, 2009 19:16:55 GMT The Sonar Chicken said:

To ward off roaches, you use pandan leaves instead of insecticides. <--- Great for those who live near an Asian market or who grow this plant at home.

I don't ward them off, I SMASH THEM!

[Hildor]

If you look in the cupboards under people's sinks, you would find an entire collection of cleaning products, for all sorts of jobs, while you can do just about the same with lemon, peanut butter and soda. Sure makes you think why we spend soo much money on that chemical stuff right

Doesn't that make your house smell of peanut butter? ^^

[LaFille]

I'm really wondering how peanut butter cleans stuff and what people use it on... It seems to me that when you do a mess with peanut butter, that itself is quite a pain to clean.

My favorite use for peanut butter after eating it is to give it on a piece of bread to a dog; it's a very good laughs-generator. ;D

[Galadriel]

You may be right Hildor, but then again, what smell did your house had before

@ Fille
I can see the mental picture of Abbie with a peanut butter sandwich

[LaFille]

Yeah, though it's a rare pleasure for both... trying to check her line, too. ;D

[Hildor]

You may be right Hildor, but then again, what smell did your house had before

Only beer, but I always clean up the next day. Yes even with a hangover. It's so tough that it should be made into a sport. Hangovercleaning.

[Galadriel]

Jul 11, 2009 9:44:40 GMT Hildor said:

You may be right Hildor, but then again, what smell did your house had before

Only beer, but I always clean up the next day. Yes even with a hangover. It's so tough that it should be made into a sport. Hangovercleaning.

OMG, don't tell me that you really want to make this into something real? If you have a hangover you're supposed to stay in bed or on your couch, waiting untill you can move again without the need to throw up

[Hildor]

Well if you live in a student house, you go party on thursdaynight, you go home on friday around noon if there aren't any lessons anymore, it's your turn that week to clean the kitchen and bathroom ánd your room is messed up from the night before...well you just HAVE to hangoverclean ;D

[Galadriel]

Jul 13, 2009 7:42:54 GMT Hildor said:

Well if you live in a student house, you go party on thursdaynight, you go home on friday around noon if there aren't any lessons anymore, it's your turn that week to clean the kitchen and bathroom ánd your room is messed up from the night before...well you just HAVE to hangoverclean ;D

I feel sorry for you kiddo ;D

[Hildor]

I did so too for myself each time

[Alrik]

What works best against stains on a T-Shirt ?

Cutting them out with a scissor. ;D

[Galadriel]

Jul 17, 2009 16:25:20 GMT Alrik said:

What works best against stains on a T-Shirt ?

Cutting them out with a scissor. ;D

My grand mother had the same ideas ;D then again, she was German too ;D
Another of her advices: When her husband died, she kept all his underwear so she could wear them, in her way of saying: Just cut out "den tzipfel" and you can wear it too

[The Sonar Chicken]

"Den tzipfel"

Edit: LOL @ Alrik and Gal. ;D