If when you cook rice you want it to be loose, remember to add some lemon juice to the water when you heat it. Don’t worry, it won’t overcook!
Mix a spoonful of bicarbonate with two of water to make a paste. Apply it to the hard areas of your feet and massage. Leave on for a few minutes and rinse with warm water. Dry the area well. Repeat a few times a week and say goodbye to hard skin!
To make gas burners recover their shine or golden colour, you just have to soak them in boiling water with vinegar for 20 minutes and rub them afterwards with a cloth. They’ll look as good as new.
Chop onions with the chopping board underneath the kitchen extractor fan and turn it on to medium power. You’ll see how the vapours which make you cry are absorbed by the extractor fan and you’ll avoid your eyes itching.
Have you got an oil stain on the ground in your parking space in the garage that you can’t get rid of? Try a cola drink. Pour the liquid onto the stain and leave it for a few minutes before scrubbing with a brush. If the stain is very dark, you might have to repeat the operation.
Do you have small eyes? If you want them to appear bigger, you just have to use white eyeliner pencil on the bottom line of your eyes, both for day and night make-up. The white colour will enhance your eyes. Try it!
The best way to keep bread fresh from one day to the next is to put it in a plastic bag with a piece of celery and then close it well. The bread will absorb the humidity from the celery and will stay fresh. The celery doesn’t affect the flavour of the bread.
Cleaning cloths and kitchen cloths absorb bad smells very quickly. If you want to remove them, you just have to soak them with a few drops of ammonia before putting them in the washing machine. Remember to not mix them with other clothes.
Mix the juice of a lemon with half a cup of black tea. Apply all over your hair from the roots to the ends and massage your scalp. Leave on for 5 minutes and then wash your hair normally. Apply to your hair once a week.
To eliminate dead skin and for a deep clean, prepare an exfoliator by mixing ground sesame seeds, sea salt, lemon juice and olive oil. Apply to the face for 5 minutes and rinse with warm water. You’ll see the difference.
For hair damaged by the sun and hair dye, make a mask with two egg yolks and a spoonful of olive oil. Apply to the hair for 5-10 minutes. Then rinse with water and wash normally. You’ll have shiny, moisturised hair.
When clothes get stained with marker pen, a good remedy is acetone. Rub the stain with cotton wool and acetone and it will disappear in a matter of seconds. Then wash the clothes on a normal cycle, and you’re done!
To make brushes and brooms clean and as good as new, soak them in a bucket of water with ammoniac for a while and then rinse them. Leave them to dry outside. The results are surprising.
Put the garlic in a glass jar, shut it and shake the jar well for a few minutes. You’ll see that it practically peels itself. Amazing!
Achieving perfect cream to decorate your desserts is very easy. When you whip the cream, add a tablespoon of powdered milk. Your cream will be more fluid and therefore easier to work with.
If you have fragile, brittle and stained nails, try soaking them in lemon juice or olive oil every day for 5 minutes. You’ll hydrate them and they will look healthier and shinier.
To make your lipstick last longer, first choose a lip pencil of a similar colour to your lipstick. Outline your lips carefully and then use the pencil to colour in your lips. Then apply your lipstick. Keep in mind that matte lipsticks last longer and are fashionable. This way, your lips will be perfectly made-up for longer.
When you heat food in the microwave the smell stays inside it and it’s annoying. To remove it, place a glass of lemon juice and cinnamon in the microwave and put it on for 2 minutes.
When you cook in the oven and food residue gets stuck on the baking tray, cover it with hot water and a handful of salt. After a few minutes you’ll see how all the fat is released.
If you use wooden spoons for cooking and over time they have become black, you can recover their colour very easily. Soak the cutlery in a bucket of warm water and half a cup of hydrogen peroxide for two hours. Then rinse them with water and washing-up liquid. The hydrogen peroxide removes bacteria and black stains.
Removing the skin of chickpeas is very simple. Place them in a container with a spoonful of bicarbonate of soda and heat it in the microwave for a few minutes. Then put the chickpeas in a bowl of hot water and stir them with your hands, you’ll see how the skin comes off. This tip is ideal for making hummus.
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