63 Amazing Uses For Salt
I was running through my accumulated mails this morning found a leaflet from Reader’s Digest on Salt. Its pretty useful as a household tip. Usually people forget things that they read after sometime, or even fail to act on it. I am guilty of it too.
I was thinking, since I got a blog, why not I blogged it down and refer to it time and again, so that I will not forget?
You know, keeping it ain’t good enough as you will be too busy or lazy to retrieve it. At least that applies to me. :p
63 Amazing Uses For Salt
AROUND THE HOUSE
1. Clear flower residue from vases.
2. Clean artificial flowers.
3. Hold artificial flowers in place.
4. Keep wicker furniture looking new.
5. Make brooms last longer.
6. Ease fireplace cleanup.
7. Make your own brass and copper polish.
8. Remove red wine stains.
9. Clean grease stains.
10. Remove watermarks from wood.
11. Refresh sponges.
12. Relieve stings, bites and plant allergies.
13. Keep windows and windscreens frost-free.
IN THE KITCHEN
14. Deodourise sneakers.
15. Make your own scented air freshener.
16. Give goldfish a parasite-killing bath.
17. Clean aquarium tanks.
18. Repel fleas.
19. Keep ants out.
20. Freshen refuse disposals.
21. Remove baked – on food.
22. Soak stains off enamel pans.
23. Keep oven spills from hardening.
24. Scrub off burned milk.
25. Clean greasy iron pans.
26. Clean discoloured glass.
27. Clean cast-iron woks.
28. Remove lipstick.
29. Brighten up cutting boards.
30. Clean the refrigerator.
31. Speed cleanup of messy bread dough.
32. Erase tea and coffee stains.
33. Shine teapot spouts.
34. Clean coffee percolators.
35. Remedy bitter coffee.
36. Prevent grease splatters.
37. Make water boil faster.
38. Shell hard-boiled eggs easily.
39. Poach perfect eggs.
40. Test egg freshness.
41. Shell pecan nuts easily.
42. Wash spinach thoroughly.
43. Keep salad crisp.
44. Revive wrinkled apples.
45. Stop cut fruit from browning.
46. Whip cream and beat eggs better.
47. Keep milk fresh longer.
48. Prevent mould on cheese.
49. Put out grease fires.
50. Wipe up spilled eggs easily.
ON WASH DAY
51. Clean an iron’s metal soleplate.
52. Make a quick stain pre-treatment.
53. Remove perspiration stains.
54. Preserve the colour in new towels.
IN THE GARDEN
55. Stop weeds in their tracks.
56. Get rid of snails and slugs.
57. Clean flowerpots without water.
IN THE BATH
58. Treat dandruff.
59. Soften skin.
60. Exfoliate.
61. Freshen breath.
62. Open hair-clogged drains.
63. Remove spots on bath and sink enamel.
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I personally know only a few uses for salt other than cooking, didn’t know it can used for so many other things…
