Health and Beauty Aids
1. Use lip balm to soothe a sore nose due to a cold
2. Keep alcohol towelettes in your car or purse to wipe down a public telephone
3. Soak toothbrushes in peroxide and water between brushes
4. Soothe a canker sore by placing a wet black tea bag, which contains tannin, directly on the sore.
5. Use vegetable shortening as a lip balm
6. Bathe in Nestea to relieve sunburn pain.
7. Use Tabasco to relieve toothache pain.
8. Apple cider vinegar added to water and gargled is said to relieve the
discomfort of sore throats
9. Spa Treatment at Home
Wash face. While face is still wet rub in a dab
of petroleum jelly. Continue wetting face until the jelly is spread evenly and doen't appear greasy. This is a great moisturizer
and inexpensive.
10. Use hemoroid cream to reduce puffiness on face.
11. If you need to tighten the screws in your glasses, you use a bobby pin with the plastic tip removed.
12. Put a few drops of rubbing alcohol in your ear canal after swimming to prevent swimmers ear.
13. Use baby wipes to clean scrapes and cuts. Also soothes sunburns.
14. To stop itching under a cast, take an ordinary hair dryer, turn it on high/cool and blow air into the area between
the skin and cast.
15. If an injury makes getting out of a car difficult, lay a plastic garbage bag or plastic sheet on the seat so the
patient can slide across easier.
16. Keep a prescription label clean and legible by putting clear tape over it.
17. A drop of clear nail polish or instant bonding glue on the tops and bottoms of eye glass screws will keep them from
falling out.
18. Keep compresses warm at bedside in a crock pot
19. If you need moist heat for an injury, microwave a moist towel for one minute, place over injury
20. If it is painful to hold a book or magazine, make a beanbag filled with plastic pellets to use as a lap tray. In
can be slanted to the proper position
21. A pillowcase with plastic pellets inside is good for elevating a leg
22. Ginger ale rubbed gently on sunglasses will clean off smudges of suntan lotion
23. Attract an insect from an ear by shining a flashlight into the ear canal. Do this in a darkened room
24. To remove small splinters, apply white glue to the spot where it is embedded. Let dry, then peel off. Most stickers
will come off with the glue.
25. Use an old lunchbox as a first aid kit to keep in your vehicle.
26. Rub a fabric softener sheet over fly-away hair to help keep it in its place.
27. To help regulate the amount of shampoo used, put it into a pump bottle.
28. Spray your panty hose with hairspray to stop the static cling.
