More Uses For Salt
by LiRa
The common table salt has plenty of uses other than for seasoning food. Below are just some of it —
- Do you have a lot of silk flowers around the house? Are they gathering dust? Using salt, you can clean these flowers. Gather them in a paper or plastic bag and then pour a generous amount of salt on it. Shake this vigorously. When you open this, you’ll see that the flowers are cleaner and brighter, rejuvenated and given new “life”.
- Relieve sore throat with salt. Now, this is a tip I learned from my grandfather. Mix a teaspoon of it with warm water. Gargling salt when its sore helps relieve the itchiness and the soreness. And of course, it’s also an inexpensive alternative to cough drops and sore throat candies like Strepsils.
- If you’ve been preparing fish for the family and the odor still remains on your hands, even while you’re done cooking, get rid of the odor by dipping your hands in warm water dredged with salt and lemon.
- Soak new pantyhose in warm water and salt. This will make it more resistant and long-lasting, you won’t have to buy pantyhose again and again.
- For oven spills, immediately sprinkle a dash of salt on it…and you’ll see that by the time the oven cools down, it will all disappear.
- A dirty iron base may stain the clothes you have (happens to me a lot!) that cleaning them once in a while is advisable. Salt can help with this too. Just sprinkle some on the iron’s hot part, then with a brown paper bag, run the iron over to remove the speckles.
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