Personal Care
- Extend Toothbrush Life
Soak toothbrushes in salt water before your first use, they’ll last longer.
- Clean Teeth
Use one part fine salt to two parts baking soda — dip your toothbrush in the mixture and brush as usual. You can also use the same mix dissolved in water for orthodontic applications.
- Ease Throat Pain
Mix salt and warm water, and gargle with this to relieve a sore throat.
- Rinse Your Mouth
Mix equal parts of salt and baking soda in water for a fresh and deodorizing mouth rinse.
- Ease Mouth Problems
For cankers, abscesses, and other mouth sores rinse your mouth with a weak solution of warm salt water several times a day.
- Relieve Bee-sting Pain
Ouch? Immediately dampen the area and pack on a small pile of salt to reduce pain and swelling.
- Treat Mosquito Bites
A saltwater soak can do wonders for that mosquito-bite itch — a pinch of salt mixed with olive oil can help, too.
- Treat Poison Ivy
Same method as for treating mosquito bites (salt doesn’t seem to distinguish between itches.
- Have An Exfoliating Massage
After bathing and while still wet give yourself a massage with dry salt. It freshens skin and boosts circulation.
