GREAT TIPS

Household Tips

Love Having Fresh Flowers in your Home?  To make the blooms last longer, add a few drops of bleach ot the water in the vase.

All You April 2012 Issue (Dwyer Paulsen)

Table Salt Can Do That?

Work table salt into greasy marks on fabric to help soak up the stain before tossing into the wash.
All You April 2012 Issue

To wash sinks, pots and pans, or stained coffee cups fast, mix liquid dish soap with table salt to form a gentle scrubbing paste.

Good Housekeeping April 2012 Issue
 
Want a Quick Way to Clean your Microwave?

Zap a bowl of water with half a lemon in it for five minutes to loosen grime.  Then just sponge the walls clean. 

Good Housekeeping April 2012 Issue

Beauty Tips

Remedy a Fragrance Overload – Spray way too much?  Here’s a quick fix:  Moisten a cotton ball with rubbing alcohol and wipe the skin where you over-spritzed.  Alcohol dissolves the oils that release perfumes scent on your skin and the cotton ball gently exfoliates the skin’s surface, which also helps to remove the fragrance.

Alan Hirsch, MD, Director of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation
Oprah Magazine April 2012 Issue

Make it Last All Day – Heading out after work, but hesitant to re-spritz?  Make your fragrance last all day (and then some) with this a.m. trick.  Rub an unscented body lotion where you plan to mist (best spots are at your pulse points like your neck, inner wrists, and behind your ears).  It captures the scent so it stays on the skin without evaporating.  IT WORKS – I TRIED IT!

Red Book Magazine May 2012 Issue