Showing posts with label household products. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Tuesday Tip: Strange Uses for Butter

From removing glue to coating pills, there are many unusual uses for butter. As part of my regular Tuesday Tip series, I found the following alternative uses for butter in two sources: Woman's World and Reader's Digest:


*Glue Removal: To take glue from your hands, rub them with butter before washing them down with soap and water.

* Gum from hair: Apply softened butter to the locks. Bubble gum will glide off without a tug-of-war.

*Easy Swallow: Cover pills with butter to help the medicine go down.

*The Cutting Edge: Coat a knife with butter before slicing through sticky items such as dried fruit of a gooey pies.

*Tree Sap Removal: Shaded Parking disaster? Dislodge sticky sap by rubbing on a pat of butter with a micro-fiber cloth or other soft material. Wipe until the butter and the sap are gone. No scratches.

--Source: Woman's World

What about a butter-based dry hair treatment, an anti-mold cheese recipe, emergency shaving cream, or fishy smell removal? Reader's Digest has these alternative butter uses.

My Favorite Tip:

Soothe aching feet
To soothe tired feet, massage them with butter, wrap in a damp, hot towel, and sit for 10 minutes. Your feet will feel revitalized … and they'll smell like popcorn too. -- Reader's Digest