Everyday Household Products Can Be Used for Bathing

If you have ever run out of bubble bath or shampoo, then this is a definite must read article. You will discover several ways to make up for your expensive bathing luxuries with products you probably have stored away in a kitchen cabinet or in the bottom of your sock drawer.

Arm & Hammer Baking Soda: Not only does this freshen up your refrigerator, soothe heartburn, and spruce up your pastry batter, baking soda can also be used as a reliever for aching muscles. All you have to do is mix a tablespoon of baking soda, one tablespoon of Epsom salt, one tablespoon on Morton Salt, and then add a few drops of a fragrance of you choice, (preferably lavender). You pour this mixture into a warm running bath hop in and relax. You can even put the mixture into little bottles or containers, decorate with ribbons and bows and give away as gifts.

Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk: Have you ever heard of a milk bath? Well by throwing a handful of Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk into your tub you can experience one. The lactic acid in the powdered milk softens and moisturizes the skin. So you can just sit back and relax and enjoy a wonderful skin softening experience.

Johnson's Baby Oil: If you want another skin softening bath experience, you have to try adding Johnson's Baby Oil to your bath water. Just sprinkle a few drops of baby oil into the tub and enjoy a natural oil bathing experience.

L'EGGS Sheer Energy Panty Hose: Who would have thought that panty hose could be used for more than wearing to work everyday or as a stocking cap for robbing a store? Well believe it or not, L'EGGS Sheer Energy Panty Hose can be filled with natural herbs such as, rosemary, mint, lavender, or orange peel; and then hung from the faucet in the bathtub under warm running bath water. This is an excellent way to have aromatherapy while you bathe.

Not only can these panty hose give your mind and spirit an uplift, if you cut off the leg of one of the pair of panty hose, stick a bar of soap inside of the knee, tie a knot around both ends, you will have a pretty fine back scrubber.

Maxwell House Coffee: If you love the smell of coffee in the morning, you might think about adding some to your bath water. What you will need to do is rub warm coffee grounds all over your body from the neck down while in the tub. Ten minutes later fill the tub with hot water and you will have an instant spa. Your skin will feel so wonderful after this experience. Some spas actually charge up to two hundred dollars for this same treatment, when you can have the same experience by just getting some coffee out of your kitchen cabinet. Who would have thought?

Clairol Herbal Essences Shampoo: If you didn't know, well you probably do from the commercial, that Herbal Essence Shampoo smells wonderfully delightful when you use it. You can actually use the shampoo as a bubble bath too. This basically works with any great smelling shampoo. You will have to try it someday.

Carnation Condensed Milk: As I already mentioned in this article, milk makes a wonderful skin softener, it also makes a great hair softener too. You can use Carnation Condensed Milk as a hair conditioner. All you have to do is mix one small tin of Carnation Condensed Milk with one teaspoon of Heinz White Vinegar and one teaspoon o f SueBee Honey and apply to hair. Rinse the mixture thoroughly after two minutes.

Coca-Cola: Soda pop can be used for more than quenching your thirst or sprucing up a sugar rush. It can be used as a conditioner. Coca-Cola will make your hair shinier and more beautiful. All you have to do is pour a can of Coke on your hair slowly while gently working it in. Rinse the Coke out and then shampoo and condition your hair as usual. You will definitely recognize the difference.

Coppertone Sunscreen: Yes you can use Coppertone sunscreen as a hair conditioner. You can condition your hair with the sunscreen to help prevent frizzies if you happen to have extra dry hair.

Downy: If it can soften your clothes, then why not your hair? Downy can be used as a hair conditioner. All you have to do is mix one-half capful of the liquid fabric softener with four cups of water, then pour through your hair and rinse clean. Your hair will be tangle free, shiny, soft, and smell like you just hopped out of the dryer.

Sugar: Any sugar will work as an exfoliate. All you have to do is sprinkle some sugar on a damp cloth and rub all over the body. You can even add some sugar to your favorite body wash for a gentler scrub. Sugar scrub works wonders on dry elbows and knees.

Jif Peanut Butter: Crunchy peanut butter may be great on sandwiches, but it is even better on your dry elbows and knees. All you have to do is rub on some crunchy peanut butter and let it sit for five minutes and then wash off.

Kool-Aid: Had a green hair day at the pool? Get that chlorine out with banana flavored Kool-Aid. All you have to do is make a paste from the banana flavored Kool-Aid and water, put it in your hair to restore your natural hair color.

I hope that God willing this article was of some benefit to you.