Tips for Cleaning, Home, and Health
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Throwing salt on a fire in a greasy fry pan will put out the fire.
To get grease and grime, cooking oil, etc off your hands. BEFORE you wet your hands, Pour a teaspoon or 2 of salt in the palm of your hand, add enough Dawn or other liquid soap to make a paste in your hand, mix and rub in well, then wash as normal. Not only does this remove grease it will exfoliate rough, dry skin off your hands too, leaving them smooth. I keep a small bottle filled with salt in my bathroom just for this purpose.
Cut a Lemon in half across diameter. Dip cut end in salt and rub on wooden cutting boards and wooden utensils to remove food debris, odors and stains before rinsing item with water and drying. Can also be used on grimy cookie sheets to remove debris before regular washing. Cut off used salty end of lemon, cut that into smaller pieces and dispose of in running garbage disposer. Place rest of lemon in plastic baggie or small container and freeze to use "next" time. (waste not want not, Old Fashioned Yankee Principle)
I read this a very long time ago. Mix 1/4 teaspoon salt in a cup of warm water, mix well, eye drop into your nose and drain into your throat, to help prevent contracting a virus. Works on stuffed noses too! But use a small restaurant salt pack instead because salt absorbs odors and things. It truly works.
If you have animals and get fleas in your home, sprinkle table salt all over your carpet and furniture, let sit for 24 hours, vacuum up and then fleas should be gone and helps clean the carpet at the same time.
To keep unwanted ants/bugs out of your house - dump on box of Borax and one canister of table salt into a large zip bag. Mix together well, then pour a nice, thick line of this mixture along the base of your house. Renew about mid season. Works wonders!
I've done this too although I've never added salt to the borax.
Dental assistants trick, a very small amount of salt on the tongue, while taking x-rays, helps patients with gag reflex issues.
Salt is a necessary ingredient in making salt-preserved cannings, preserving meats, making sauerkraut, etc. Can't do without it. BTW, we make our sauerkraut right in the jars, no stone crocks needed. If anyone wants the recipe, please e-mail me at dejudge1 (at) md.metrocast.net
Stay well and enjoy life.
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For almost a decade I struggled with toenail fungus - trying everything and finally after praying with my whole heart I came to a NZ site where a fellow told of how his old Jewish mother told him, as he was awaiting another horrendously expensive on-line treatment from Mexico to arrive, when he finally mentioned to her his struggle with the same fungus I had, "Fungus? That's easy! Soak your feet in a strong salt (Kosher preferred!) solution twice a day for two weeks and it will be gone." I got a knowing and after the most incredibly disapointing, expensive and sometimes outright dangerous battle with these critters, I won. The household salt killed it. Bless that Momma!
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