Flour and Its Many Uses
- Dust flour and a pinch of black pepper onto the soil around your perennials to keep flies and other garden pests away.
-Pour a line of flour around your plants it will keep the ants away
-Make a kid safe paste by mixing flour and water to a pancake batter consistency, then they can use it on paper and carboard.
-Chrome can be cleaned by sprinkling white flour on a dry rag and polishing in a circular motion
Make your own brass and copper polish by mixing 1 tablespoon of flour, 1 tablespoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of white vinegar into a paste. Use a damp sponge and gently wipe the metal, allow the polish to dry for around an hour or hour and a half, them rinse with warm water and buff with a clean cloth.
- oil spill or grease on your carpet, it can be picked up by pouring flour on the spots, let it stand then vacuum it up
- If you don't have time to wash your hair, sprinkle a little flour in your hair and brush through, gets rid of oil and dandruff.
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Nice ideas! I've heard of putting baby powder in your hair, but not flour. Interesting.
Here's another use -- if you cut your dog's nail too short they'll bleed. Stop the bleeding by dipping their nail in ... you guessed it - flour!
Viveca
Excellent tips !!!
great tips, i wasn't aware of most of these , thank you
Flour keeping the ants away? WOW. I did not know this. Thanks for shring this.
Wow, I had no idea!
Hm I never heard of doing some of these. I'll have to try them. Thanks!
hmm, some good tips I hadn't heard of, I'll have to try it :) Sheri
I did not know about flour keeping away ants!