How To Salt Away Those Stains
By: Ep Mcknight
Tags: Self Improvement, Startup, Life Lessons, Education, Life

Simple tips to make everyday living a breeze and stain freer

While salt is a staple in your recipes and flavors your food, there are other ways to use salt that won’t affect your health and/or your recipes. Salt is a preservative in almost all foods, check out what else salt came do outside of the body. Salt can check freshness, make things refreshed, remove stains, balance color and so much more.

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Light bulb moments can be as simple as looking into your kitchen cabinets for everyday solutions and revelations. Seek and you will find, open and it will be given unto you.

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Got fresh or non-fresh eggs? Make sure your eggs are fresh before cooking them in your favorite recipe or frying them and discover a smell that turns your stomach or the yolk is too thick to fry. You can test their freshness, by adding two tablespoons of salt to a cup of water and pop your eggs in. The fresher the eggs, the lower it will be in the water. The fresh eggs will sink right to the bottom while the older eggs or less fresh eggs will float on the top. If the egg floats in the middle, it is halfway between. Eat up!!

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Got red wine on your carpet? While white wine will dilute the red wine from your carpet but not entirely. To totally eliminate the residual stain of red wine from your carpet, add salt and banish the red wine from your carpet. After the white wine application, wipe down the area with a sponge and cold water. Next sprinkle some salt and wait around 10–15 minutes. Finally, vacuum the area and see the stain disappear right before your eyes. This salt application may be applied to fabric, clothes and couch cushions, also.

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Got stings and bites pains? Relieve those pains easily with a little salt. Stung by a bee, relieve the sting by covering the areas in salt to reduce the swelling and stop or minimize the pain. For insect bite, soak the entire areas in saltwater and then finish off with a coating of vegetable oil.

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Got frost on your windows? Salt has always been the greatest enemy of ice. i.e. put salt on ice and watch it dissolve the ice. Ice cream makers of yesterday used salt on ice during the ice cream making process. Notice when roads are covered with ice, what do they use to melt the ice? Salt! Frost on windows, gone with salt.

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Got ants annoying you around the house? Salt is kryptonite to ants. They run for life to get away from it. Ant battle? Win it with salt. Sprinkle the salt directly on their path or create a barrier that diverts their route, around your door frames and skirting boards.

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Got lipstick stains on your glasses or cups? Rub the edges of your glasses with salt before placing them into the dishwasher or washing them. The stains remove effortlessly.

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Got smelly overcooked coffee? Banish that bitter taste with a little bit of salt to combat that awful taste. Adding a pinch of salt to your cup of coffee, makes it less bitter. Bitter coffee from an overused percolator, use four tablespoons of salt, fill with water then percolate as normal. Rinse and no more bitter coffee.

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Got slow cooking pot of water or food? Throw in a pinch of salt and the boiling process speeds up, just that simply. Salt allows the water to boil at a higher temperature.

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Got warm drinks for a party? Fill a bucket with water and some ice, adding salt will make the drinks cool faster. Pour in some salt, stir the drinks around and they will turn icy cold in minutes.

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Got dishwasher soap? Make your own! Take three or four drops of dish soap, add large tablespoon of baking soda and then add salt. Take this mixture and pour into dishwasher powder container. You get sparkling dishes and saved a few dollars.

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Go grease on your dishes, pot and/or pans? Salt dissolves grease. Sprinkle the pan with salt until it soaks up all the grease and then wash it. As a preventive grease splattering remedy, sprinkle salt in your pan before you fry. This will help prevent grease from splattering all over the stove and kitchen worktops.

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Go grimy sponges? Restore the sponge and remove that grime by soaking the sponge overnight. Add a 1/4 cup of salt per quart of water. Stubborn grime will be removed.

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Got clogged drains? Take white vinegar, baking soda and salt and wash your drains clean as a whistle. One cup of baking soda and salt (each) added to a cup of vinegar and let the bubbling begin and allow it too remain for ten minutes before pouring some boiling water down the drain.

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Got wimpy salad? Give your salad a makeover with salt. Make it crisp with a little salt. Sprinkle a little salt on the top of the salad and the freshness will last for a few hours.

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Got brown fruit? Saltwater is a preservative. Soak fruit in saltwater for a short period of time, this will help to retain their color. Great for fruit salad or platter.

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Got melted particles on your iron’s metal soleplate? No more ruining your clothes. Sprinkle salt all over a newspaper on your ironing board. Turn iron onto high and run it over your salty newspaper. This will help remove all that residue on your iron.

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Got faded towels after a few washes? When washing new towels, add a cup of salt to the load. This will help set the colors on your towels and help them to look brighter longer.

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Got slugs and snails? As a kid, I learned this trick from my mother. We sprinkled the salt directly on the snail and it just dissolved or exploded. Ugly!! If on your plant, sprinkle salt around the plant to stop them from adhering to your plants.

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There are so many other uses of salt and not enough time to convey all but have a listed enough to give you the benefits of using salt and how you can save dollars by doing so. There are tons more usage such as salting out weeds from pavement or cracks, salting out that stinky sneakers smell, salting out eggs spills from your floor or counter, salting out mildew from clothes and bathroom walls, salt to the rescue to keep cut flowers fresh longer, salting out poison ivy, salting out fire in fireplace quicker and cleaner, salting out candles dripping, got bad breath, congestion, muscle pain, bee and wasp stings, nail biting, bruises, pestering insects, and many many more.

In conclusion, just a few lessons to convey the importance of salt and how it can make a significance difference in many household chores and is within your reach within your kitchen cabinets.

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