Toothpaste, as the name suggests, is meant for taking care of your teeth. Everyone knows how to do it perfectly, they know how to choose the right paste, brush, etc. But other ways of using it are no less well known. After all, you can paint the face of a sleeping neighbor with paste so well, clean jewelry and much, much more ...
Use funds for began in ancient Egypt. Then it was a powder of coarse salt and an analogue of laundry soap. There are cases when even now people used laundry soap for brushing their teeth and had excellent own teeth at the age of 80. Whether only soap is responsible for this is difficult to say, rather it is a matter of a whole range of factors, ranging from food and water to the individual characteristics of the organism.
Usually included in modern toothpaste include substances foaming, prophylactic against caries and plaque. There are also antimicrobial ingredients and anti-drying agents in the paste. It is thanks to these almost universal substances, which are also used in other household chemicals, that toothpaste can find a huge variety of non-traditional uses.
1. The first and most popular function of toothpaste is cleaning. If it cleans plaque so well, then why not adapt it to clean other products? For example, it is enough to apply a little paste on a brush and clean silver items. After that, simply wash off the remaining paste, and rub the silver to a shine with a cloth. You can also clean and polish watch faces, screens of mp4 players and mobile phones. Just wash off the residues not with water, but with a napkin.
2. Among the pastes there are whitening ones, this effect is achieved due to small abrasive particles in the composition of the toothpaste. Let's use this property for polishing small scratches on the car body.
3. You can also whiten yellowed nails by simply spreading them with paste and leaving it like that for a few minutes.
4. Antimicrobial and antibacterial properties of the paste can be used to treat bruises, wounds, herpes. On a fresh wound, the paste will play the role of a hemostatic and wound healing, on a bruise - absorbable. For herpes, the drying property is more important; in this case, the paste is applied in a thin layer overnight.
5. You can draw with paste on glasses, leather, etc. Perfect for imitating snow before the new year. It is also used as a primer on plasticine before painting (this is an old technique of Soviet schoolchildren).
6. When working in the kitchen, smells that have ingrained into the skin are very unpleasant - fish, onions, garlic, which are very difficult to remove. But toothpaste, which is used instead of detergent, does an excellent job with them. By the way, it is easy to get rid of the smell of fish by washing your hands with soap, but in cold water! Well, beer also helps well as a rinse, although it is blasphemy to pour this drink to wash your hands.
Toothpaste protects teeth and the entire oral cavity from unwanted diseases, replenishments and other unnecessary nonsense. But the use of toothpaste does not end there. Toothpaste has many other useful properties that will surely find application in everyday life.
For example, toothpaste can very easily repair holes or chips in drywall.
Let's say you accidentally made a small chip in drywall in a rented apartment and the owner is about to come. Well, there's not a drop of toothpaste or a hole. For masking, you can paint over with a felt-tip pen of a similar color.
Toothpaste will protect not only your teeth, but also your sneakers.
White sneakers or sneakers with white soles get dirty very well. These black dashes, which cannot be washed in any way, are especially infuriating. But still, I found a remedy - toothpaste! And we also need an old (or new) toothbrush. We apply the paste on the brush and back - we rub these lines with translational movements (just like brushing your teeth). Voila - the dash disappeared without any difficulty.
Toothpaste perfectly cleans and polishes metal surfaces.
This is perhaps the most effective and common method of applying toothpaste (naturally after brushing your teeth). I got acquainted with this method when I served in our valiant Armed Forces. A soldier's badge on his belt should shine like a cat's bowl. Simple felt polishing with goy paste is laborious and not very pleasant. We used to have brass badges and it was dull or sometimes even greenish when we got it from stock. We took an old toothbrush, put some toothpaste on it and cleaned the badge. A minute of time and the badge sparkled.
Where is the use in everyday life? And here's where: burnt particles formed on the sole of the iron - they can be removed with toothpaste, while polishing the surface of the sole of the iron.
Toothpaste perfectly polishes chrome surfaces. If you have chrome surfaces, such as the tailpipes and mufflers on a motorcycle, take some toothpaste, apply a soft cloth and polish the chrome surface by hand.
Watches with a bracelet, rings and jewelry, chains and other items - everything can shine again with the help of toothpaste! In hard-to-reach places, use a toothbrush; in easily accessible places, use a soft cloth.
Toothpaste is a cleaning agent.
Toothpaste is an excellent cleaner for sinks, faucet, tubs, pools. A little paste and your bathroom will shine like new!
Toothpaste revives old CDs.
With prolonged use of CDs, small scratches will inevitably appear on them. And now comes the time when the CD becomes "unreadable". Trouble? No! We'll fix everything. Apply some toothpaste to the surface of the disc. Spread the paste over the entire scratched surface with a soft towel and “sand” the surface in a circular motion. Rinse off the paste and check the disc. In this procedure, the main thing is not to overdo it, because some toothpastes contain very effective abrasives and granules, which, if used incorrectly, can damage your CD.
Each of us encounters toothpaste at least twice a day. And maybe more, given that toothpaste is used not only for brushing teeth, since it contains a lot of useful components.
For the garden
To protect the cabbage from cabbage whites, spray heads of cabbage with a solution in August: for a bucket of water - 0.5 tubes of any toothpaste. You can use old tubes, collecting during the year, and if necessary, cutting and soaking in water.
For treatment
For sore throat rinse your mouth with a solution: in a glass of water - a strip of paste the length of a toothbrush.
When bitten insects to relieve itching and reduce swelling, squeeze a little paste on the affected area.
For wounds - to stop bleeding and accelerate healing.
With hematomas - for quick resorption of a bruise.
With herpes - for drying and formation of a protective crust.
With calluses - for drying and quick healing.
For burns- to relieve pain and prevent blistering.
For decoration
For cleaning gold jewelry
, cutlery and other silverware, apply the paste to the toothbrush and wipe the surface thoroughly. Leave overnight and wipe clean with a dry cloth in the morning. For cleaning diamonds apply a small layer of toothpaste on them, gently brush with a toothbrush, adding a little water, and rinse.
To eliminate scratches
On the mobile phone screen or player, watch dial or car headlights, use a soft sponge to apply a little paste, rub and remove the residue with a damp cloth.
For beauty
Nails turned yellow - rub them thoroughly with toothpaste and rinse.
Clear acne skin spot application of toothpaste with a cotton swab for 2-4 hours, followed by washing with warm water, will help. If there is no irritation, you can apply the paste at night 3-4 times a week until the problem disappears completely.
To eliminate odor
"Aroma" from the hands after peeling garlic, onions and salted fish will disappear if instead of soap they are washed with toothpaste.
The smell of sour milk in the baby's feeding bottle will disappear if you apply the paste on the dishwashing brush and rub the walls with it a little from the inside, then rinse thoroughly.
For cleaning
On instrument keys squeeze out the paste, wipe gently with a soft, lint-free cloth, and remove residue with a dry cloth.
Tiles and inter-tile joints in the bathroom it is easy to clean with toothpaste.
tea marks on glass, coffee table, countertop in the kitchen will disappear if rubbed with paste and rinsed with water.
Soot and rust from metal and cast iron surfaces can be removed by applying a layer of toothpaste on them and peeling off the surfaces to a shine.
Dirty soleplate it will become as good as new if you squeeze a small amount of paste onto its slightly heated surface, rub it with a soft brush, and after 3-4 minutes wipe off the remnants of the product with a sponge dipped in warm water.
Stains on carpets will disappear if you apply toothpaste on them, rub with a stiff brush and immediately rinse with water and shampoo.
Stains from colored pencils and felt-tip pens on painted walls it can be discolored if the paste is applied to a damp cloth and rubbed into the dirty places until they come off.
For clothes and shoes
lipstick marks on clothes can be removed by applying a layer of toothpaste on them, rubbing and leaving for 10 minutes. Then rub and rinse again.
shabby places on leather shoes will not be so noticeable if you squeeze toothpaste on them, rub with a brush and rinse with water.
For condensation protection
Bathroom mirror will not fog up if washed with a solution of toothpaste.
Spectacle lenses for swimming will remain transparent if you put a drop of toothpaste on them, rub in with gentle movements, and then rinse thoroughly with water.
There is one product that everyone, without exception, uses every day, or even several times a day. This is toothpaste. We propose to further expand the scope of its application, which until now was limited only to teeth. True, you have to forget about gel and multi-colored pastes, only the traditional white one.
Jewelry polish
We apply a thin layer of paste on darkened stones or oxidized metal and gently rub with a soft toothbrush or cloth. Rinse with clean water and dry. If it was not possible to clean the first time, apply a thick layer of paste, set aside for an hour and then wipe it again. You can not use toothpaste to clean pearls, turquoise, rhinestones, in which the soft surface can be scratched.
Stain remover
The stain on the carpet should be rubbed with a toothbrush and paste, gently wiped with a damp cloth.
Scratches on DVD and CD
A small amount of paste is applied to a scratch on the disc and rubbed gently from the center to the edge. Rinse with clean water and dry with a microfiber cloth.
Worn soles on sneakers
If the sole on your favorite sneakers is worn out, you can renew it with toothpaste. Ideal for white leather shoes.
white stains on furniture
Those who forget to put a coaster under the cup often have white stains on the furniture. A small amount of paste is applied to the water mark and gently wiped off with a soft, slightly damp cloth. You may have to repeat the procedure, but you do not need to apply force.
Detergent for bottles and thermoses
If an incomprehensible plaque has formed inside a bottle or thermos, try wiping it off with a narrow brush with toothpaste applied to it. Rinse thoroughly with hot water.
fogging
A small amount of toothpaste is applied around the inside of goggles or an underwater mask and wiped thoroughly. Cannot be used with glasses with special coatings such as anti-glare.
Marks on the collar
You can remove ugly gray marks on a shirt collar with toothpaste and a brush. Needs to be rubbed and washed.
Manicure
If your nails look dull, yellow without varnish, you need to rub them with toothpaste. The glitter will return.
Creativity and natural ingenuity sometimes suggest unexpected solutions to the use of familiar things for other than their intended purpose.
For example, toothpaste can serve not only as a means for brushing teeth, but also bring benefits in everyday life. Such secrets will be especially useful to travelers, summer residents and lovers of outdoor recreation.
The composition of toothpastes includes various useful substances: light abrasive, whitening, anti-inflammatory, flavoring.
All these properties determine the areas of additional use of toothpaste:
- With the help of toothpaste, you can cope with stains from tea and coffee left on the walls of mugs, remove traces of lipstick from the fabric.
- The whitening properties of the paste are used to restore the color of white skin in things (including on the side of sneakers).
- Silver products are perfectly cleaned with toothpaste. One has only to apply it on the surface and leave for 2-3 hours.
- If you dissolve a little paste in water, you get a wonderful solution for treating glasses and mirrors from fogging. And with the help of toothpaste, you can draw snowflakes on a mirror or glass.
- The polishing properties of toothpaste can also be used not only on teeth, but also in the household. Chrome-plated surfaces, sinks, taps are perfectly polished with a solution of toothpaste. It can be used to wipe drawings with pencils and felt-tip pens from painted walls.
- Wash baby bottles well with paste to remove the smell of sour milk.
- In cosmetology, you can use the anti-inflammatory properties of the paste: pimples, lubricated at night, dry up and decrease in size by morning.
- A small burn or callus can also be treated with a paste, provided that there is no open wound.
- Toothpaste will prevent the development of herpes on the lips, if applied at the very beginning of the rash, it will relieve itching from insect bites.
- Allows you to clean your fingernails to a shine. In order for your nails to be strong, clean and shiny, it is enough to rub them a little with a toothbrush with toothpaste applied to it. Moreover, it is necessary to clean both the outside and the accessible areas of the nails from the inside.
- Helps smooth hair. Notably, gel toothpastes contain the same water-soluble polymers found in many hair styling gels. Therefore, if you want to give your hair a stylish shape, and there was no hair gel at hand, it does not matter, gel toothpaste can help out.
- Cleans burnt metal and cast iron surfaces. Apply a layer of toothpaste and spoil the contaminated areas well.
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