Spices give food piquant, unique taste. In some kitchens, these fragrant substances are used very actively, in others - restrained, but without them just can not do. Do you know that magic powders, grains and leaves apply not only for seasoning dishes? They, it turns out, perfectly work away from the saucepan and pan.
1. Stop garden invaders with Cayenne pepper
Powder from Cayenne pepper will scare insects.
Cayenne pepper attracts its unusually spicy taste. You can use it not only to create sharp dishes, but also for the destruction of garden bugs and Tli. If these nasty beings spoil your roses, mix the teaspoon of powder from the Cayenne Pill with a small amount of liquid soap for dishes. Pour the solution into the spray gun, add water and use to pollinate plants and soil. Insects will quickly leave your garden.
2. Buy Trap for cockroaches or take a bay leaf?
The odorless laurel sheet will help get rid of cockroaches in the house.
The laurel leaf is valued for the taste, which he adds stew and dishes from rice, but he has a hidden talent - scare the cockroaches. In order to get rid of the disgusting leafy creatures, place the dried sheets where they are hiding: in dark corners, behind the lockers, in any cracks that you find in the plinths and floorings. Attach the brave with a laurel aroma.
3. Easter eggs with turmeric
Vegetable paint for Easter eggs - turmeric.
In order to paint easter eggs in a bright yellow color, connect two tablespoons of turmeric powder with one cup of boiling water and add two tea spoons of white vinegar. Mix well ingredients while powder does not dissolve. Then it is one to lower the eggs welded into the liquid. You can get darker and light shades, holding them in a mixture from 5 to 20 minutes.
4. Glue with garlic
Garlic can perfectly replace glue.
Everyone knows that garlic is good to scare away vampires. And if you are serious - you know that fresh garlic juice also has adhesion properties? It does not glue heavy items, but works well with small, for example, with thin glass. Sick the juice from the head of raw garlic and use it as a glue to assemble a favorite statuette from fragments. Perhaps first it will make a piquant smell, but it will quickly pass.
5. Motion with mint mice
Fragrant mint, oddly enough, do not like rodents.
A green mint twig adds a pesto scene and gives the brightness of the summer mojito, but do you know that it is also an affordable mice repeller? The tailed hate the mint smell and will do everything so as not to deal with it. Place the dried plant or lubricate the slot butter in the floor, the walls - that is, treat all the moves by which rodents can penetrate the house. If you do not know where the mouse come from, pay attention to all the plinths and corners in the house.
6. Tired mosquitoes - Rosemary will help
The smell of rosemary is pleasant to people, but anti-mosquito.
The mosquitoes tolerate cannot smell rosemary. It is necessary to use! Do not be afraid, you do not have to plant a plant throughout the yard: just pour one cup of dried rosemary liter of boiling water, allow the mixture to cool to room temperature. Straighten the liquid and pour into a spray bottle. You can pixw! Having created a pleasant fog around him, you simultaneously get rid of annoying squeaming insects.
7. Thyme for disinfection
Thyme can replace some disinfectants.
Normal thyme is a natural disinfectant that can replace aggressive chemistry. Use it when washing kitchen tables or bathroom. Make a special infusion: one tablespoon of dried leaves of plants pour a cup of boiling water. Let it brew for eight hours, then strain. In the resulting liquid, pour two tablespoons of alcohol. That's all, you can proceed to cleaning - and no harmful chemistry! And what fragrance ...
8. Calm legs with Oregano
Welcome to the soul and make a footbath.
Protect your legs from itching and peeling, appearing when infected with fungus in public shower and changing rooms. To prepare a soothing mixture, you need to boil 500 ml of water and add ¼ cups of dried oregano (souls). Put the solution to cool, and you yourself prepare your foot bath - you can simply pour 4 liters of water in the bathroom. Now there will throw a concentrate with thyme. Everything is ready, lower the feet and feel relieved. The time of procedure is 20 minutes, you need it every day. Of course, the dermatologist should be visited.
9. Protect clothes with pepper and cloves
Carnation - remedy for moth.
You moth brings you, which spoils your favorite clothes? Take advantage of this secret: Prepare special sachets before packing seasonal clothes. So, mix the carnation and black pepper in equal parts, put one tablespoon of the mixture into the center of a small square from the fabric, lift the corners and tie the ribbon. Before you aromatic sachets from moths! Spread them on the shelves in the closet.
10. Lavender refreshes underwear
Lavender fragrance is very pleasant.
If you ever dried a lavender, you already know how beautiful it smells. It is added to sauces, salads and soups, to meat dishes, and in desserts, the plant is used for aromatization. Cupcakes and biscuits with lavender - elegant treat. Why not use this property to give linen freshness? Drying the plant does not have to - take a regular cotton disk, drop a little lavender oil and spread among the linen.
11. Deodorant from dry mustard
Mustard is not only seasoning, it can replace soap.
Ah, mustard, as it is good with meat or hot dog. But this substance can remove the smell from your hands. If you cut onion or garlic, and soap did not help you remove it, use mustard powder. Mix it with a small amount of water and apply a paste on the palm. Clean a little and rinse with water. Everything, no reminder that you recently engaged in cooking.