First aid - personal hygiene
- Strawberries against plaque
Take care of your teeth completely biologically! To remove the plaque, crush a strawberry and press the toothbrush heartily in the flesh. Now use this toothbrush to brush your teeth heartily - and the stains will be gone.
- Combustion? - Spounge it!
Didn't you ever burn yourself doing house or kitchen work? One can have an effective first aid always handy: Keep a clean and moistened spounge in the freezer compartment. The frozen spounge works analgesic on combustions and prevents blisters.
- Get color spots off your skin
Almost each who wants to have clean hands after painting again uses thinning or turpentine oil. A better means: Baby or cooking oil. It softens the color and spares the hands.
- Cognac with egg against hoarseness
A quickly working means against hoarseness: Mix two raw eggs with a glass of cognac and drink the mixture very slowly. That helps still better than it tastes.
- Fresh breath through coffee bean
A personal tip against halitosis: Simply chew a coffee bean thoroughly and your breath will be fresh again
- Medicines not in the bathroom
In the most household one finds the medicine chest somewhere in the bathroom. There is no worse place for it! For dampness harms the most medicines. Therefore - preserve medicines in a dry place.
- Lighter Fluid helps to remove band-aids
It hurts, if one must tear off band-aids of hairy body positions. Carefully drop some lighter fluid on the "sticky" parts of the band-aid. Then the band-aid will go easily off the hairy skin.
- Vaseline against stinging nettles
Who ran into some stinging nettles won't relieve the burning and itch through scratching but sooner aggravate. But some Vaseline directed on the small swellings will get them away quickly.
- Sun-tan in the shadow
Did you know that one don't have to lay in the sun to get a tan? One gets a tan almost as quick if one can see the heaven above. So why not lay in the pleasant shadow to get a tan?
- Coffee against Headaches
If you have a headache simply try an old househould remedy: pure coffee! It eliminates the pain still more quickly if one adds some lemon juice.
- Cube sugar against wasp's sting
A bee's or wasp's sting can be very painful. But there is a simple household remedy to get the poison out of the wound: Place a moistened piece of cube sugar on the wound. The sugar will absorb the fluid and thus the poison. And it soon won't itch anymore.
- Help at mosquito bites
What does one do at mosquito bites? I have assembled six hints: Use vinegar and salt, or yeast with water, or damp sugar, or onion juice, or ammonia, or soap on the wound. That will help much more than scratching!
- Hot water calms hemorrhage
Some small wound seems to want to bleed forever. Against that it means a simle remedy: Hot water. For it has the protein congealed in the blood. Therefore: Moisten a cotton wool pad with hot water, mop up the wound and the current will run dry.
- Splinter inside the skin
A very simple hint, how to remove splinters: Fill a bottle with hot water, press the position with the splinter on top of the bottle's opening. The steam softens the skin and the splinter will be able to be removed effortless.
- Eyebrow pencil in the freezer compartment
How many times did one of your eybrow pencils break off? The lead is sometimes just too weak. The solution: Place the pencil in the freezer compartment for a short time, then it will be easy to sharpen.
- Steel against onion and garlic smell
If you used your hands to cut onions or garlic, hold all five fingers on a steel spoon and let some cold water run over. The smell has gone!
© 1997 Michael Bouska