10 life hacks you need to know
Put a stocking over the end of the vaccum to find tiny items like earrings.
Brown sugar exfoliates sensitive skin and eating strawberries whitens the teeth.
With these interesting life hacks, you might be ready to join the Survivor show.
Here are a few hacks you may not have known:
1. Instead of using chemical sprays to kill insects, rather add water and 25 per cent salt to a spray bottle as it will have a better effect on the insects.
2. Certain foods that get rid of an upset stomach is bananas, ginger, white rice and plain yoghurt.
3. When you run bacon under cold water before cooking it, its shrinking size will reduce by 50 per cent.
4. If you have a stuck splinter in your hand, add bicarbonate of soda and water to it which will remove it easier.
5. Remove the colour of a painful bruise by holding a banana peel over it for about 10 to 20 minutes.
6. If you peel a banana from the bottom, you won’t have to remove those “stringy things.”
7. Eating marshmallows will relieve you from toothaches, asthma, arthritis and sore throats.
8. When birds fly low to the ground, most of the time it will mean that a thunderstorm is coming.
9. If you accidentally cut yourself while shaving, by dabbing Vaseline on the cut, a seal will form which will stop the bleeding.
10. If you want fluffier rice, add a teaspoon of lemon juice to the boiling water before adding the rice.
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