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Salt certainly makes our food more flavorful—and it can also work to fix many of our unexpected challenges around the house. Here are some of our favorite household uses for salt.
When windows won’t open, and salt clogs the shaker, the weather will favor the umbrella maker.
–Weather folklore
Best Uses for Salt in the Home
- Rub salt on fruit-stained clothes while still wet, then put them in the wash.
- For mildew spots, rub in salt and some buttermilk, and then let dry in the sun.
- If you spill wine or fruit juice on your tablecloth, pour salt on the spot immediately to absorb the stain.
- Apply a paste of salt and olive oil to the ugly heat rings on your table. Let it sit for about an hour, and then wipe it off with a soft cloth.
- To clean your clothing iron, sprinkle salt on a piece of paper and run the sticky iron over it a few times while the iron is hot.
- To restore some of the color to faded fabric, soak it in a strong solution of salt and water.
- A mixture of salt and vinegar will clean brass.
- Salt on your fingers when cleaning meat or fish will prevent your hands from slipping.
- To kill unwanted weeds growing in your driveway or between bricks and stones, pour boiling salted water over them.
- For perspiration stains, add enough water to salt to make a paste, then rub into the cloth. Wait an hour, and then launder as usual.
- Cover spilled raw eggs with salt, then wipe clean with a paper towel.
- To freshen smelly sneakers (or any canvas shoe), sprinkle their insides with salt. Wait 24 hours for the salt to absorb the odor, then shake them out.
- Pour salt directly onto a grease spill and come back to it later.
- A new broom will last longer if you soak the bristles in hot saltwater before using it for the first time.
- Stainless steel can be cleaned by rubbing it with a gritty paste of 2 tablespoons of salt mixed with lemon juice. Rinse well and pat dry with a soft cloth.
- Rub 2 to 3 tablespoons of salt onto the stains inside your glass vases, and then scrub clean with a damp bristle brush.
- Gargle with warm saltwater (1/4 teaspoon salt to 1 cup of water) to relieve a sore throat.
- Sprinkle salt on carpets to dry out muddy footprints before vacuuming.
- When silk flowers get dusty, put them in a paper bag with several tablespoons of salt and shake gently for 2 minutes to clean them.
- Refresh household sponges by soaking them in cold saltwater for 10 minutes.
Have we missed any great household uses of salt? Please let us know below!
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I've been trying for months to get a stain out of my carpet, but everything I've used only seems to spread it. I read that salt will work, so I sprayed the stain with water, sprinkled salt on it and left it overnight. Vacuumed it the next day and the stain is gone!
When I was a kid, my mother would wet my mosquito bites and rub salt on it, it would stop the itching.
Just 2 more additions for salt:
1) Not only is salt (the saltier the better) gargled and swished around in one's mouth in very warm water good for a sore throat, but it also helps with a mild toothache as well; and
2) Sprinkling salt on a dropped raw egg makes clean-up a lot easier.
After mixing vegetables for roasting with olive oil with my clean hands, I sprinkle some kosher salt into my oil-coated hands and scrub for a short time. Then rinse my hands in warm water. Free salt scrub, and soft, smooth hands.
This sounds gross but it works. I'm extremely allergic to poison ivy. This was my grandfather's cure. When blisters appear pour rubbing alcohol over the area. Then with a table knife, scrape open the blisters. douse again with alcohol and rub table salt into open blisters. The process burns like blazes but the itch is gone and by next day its 'dried up and no spreading.
Sounds very painful but if it keeps a person alive that is very allergic to poison ivy then it is way worth a try.
I'm also highly sensitive to poison ivy. I've found that Technu is very effective, and won't damage skin cells like rubbing alcohol will. It also won't hurt like heck!
If you have an infected wound, pour salt on it and wrap with a wet cloth. As it dries, the salt will draw out the infection. Yes, it will sting for a few minutes, but usually the infection will be gone the next day.
To get cat or dog urine out of hardwood floors or basically anything that can be moistened. Moisten the floor with water, sprinkle table salt over the floor and let it sit overnight. You will see where the salt has drawn the urine and smell out of the floor. It took two applications for the floor, but after 2 days there was no odor. The things salt won't fix, are all the stains. I spent about $4.00 on the salt.
Throwing salt on a fire in a greasy fry pan will put out the fire.
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