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When Life Gives You Lemons, You Can Do All These

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Lemons are good cleaning agents. They also leave a fresh scent that, to me, is the final word on CLEAN. Seriously, no matter how much I have cleaned an area in my house, it doesn’t feel so complete and done, if I don’t smell a lingering lemon scent in the room.

Here are other things you can do with lemons, other than making lemonades:

  • Clean the microwave oven. I do this regularly. It’s one chore chore I love doing. Mix lemon juice with water, put this inside the oven, turn on high and allow this to stay “cooked” for five to ten minutes. When you open the microwave, not only is it clean smelling, you can also easily wipe off hardened food now. Doing this just made microwave cleaning easier.
  • Rejuvenate and protect your wood furniture and pieces. Mix lemon juice in mineral oil but don’t overdo it. Use this to wipe on wooden surfaces.
  • Lemons halves may be used to clean out dirty fingertips that soap cannot seem to clean.
  • Rub lemons on your pats and pans to make them brighter.
  • Astringents may sometimes increase pimple breakout, instead of helping cure it. Use lemon to wash your face with, and replace the acne medication. Lemons make pimples dry faster, thus healing faster
  • If you are going to be gone from your house for a few weeks, leave cut lemons in rooms (place these in saucer, of course). Stale air will remain fresh, and you would have loved to return home to this.
  • A teaspon of lemon juice to your rice water will keep rice from becoming sticky when cooked.
  • Lemons are the best sources for Vitamin C so stock plenty and drink plenty to keep cold sores at bay

Posted in Handy Tips, Home Remedies, Home Repairs on January 14th, 2009

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