How to get your cat hair to shine and fluff

To keep your (Persian) cat hair shiny and fluffy, rub from time to time with (diluted) rose water on a cotton cloth.

Clean your cheese-grater

To perfectly clean the cheese-grater put it in the freezer for about ten minutes. Then pass it under very hot water.

Hardened hair-brush

If your hair-brush is no longer soft, soak it in hot water where you dissolved a handful of salt and squeezed half a lemon

Avoid dry basil leaves on pizza

To prevent fresh basil leaves on pizza from becoming dry during cooking, simply soak them a minute in oil.

Hands stained with fruit and vegetables

To clean hands stained with fruit and vegetables juices, rub with tomato pulp and wash them with soap.

Shine your marble tabletop, or your marble floor.

Fill a textile bag with salt and use it to wipe your surfaces. The second time around you will already notice how shinier they are...and it will each time get better.

Solified honey does not come out of pot

If honey cakes in the bottom of the jar, get it out by simply placing the jar in a pan full of hot water.

Remove mildew stains

To remove mildew stains, soak the fabric in a bowl of boiling milk and rinse with cold water.

Smell of burning

To eliminate the smell of burning in the air, boil some lemon slices in a bit 'of water.

Clean windows with potatoes

Try using the water you have used to boil your potatoes to clean and shine your windows.

Dirty oven?

Warm it up at 35°C and wipe it with a cloth/sponge wet with pure vinegar.
Repeat until clean. Your oven will be odorless, sanitized, like new.

Stop crying for onions.

Before cutting them put them shortly in boiling water and then immediately in cold water.
If you need to peel them you may simply do so under flowing tap water. You will never cry again.

For shining tableware.

Cut a potato in half, wipe with it all your forks, knives, spoons, then shine with a cotton cloth.

Test your preferred ground coffee mix.

If it is a good, natural product ground coffee floats and does not color cold water.
It is does sink or stains the water, beware...the coffe was mixed with other stuff.

Garlic to heal cuts and small wounds.

Use the very thin garlic skin applying it on the wound.
The result is immediate: the skin adheres to the blood and the wound closes up.
Please note that garlic is also a natural antibiotic.

To avoid yellowing of your books stored in a box

Put some laurel leaves (Bay leaves) in between the pages.

Headaches?

Try to breathe over a glass where you dissolved half a tea spoon of salt in vinegar.