Wet your hands in warm water and start from the ankles and rub your damp hands up your leg. This will make them fit better.
Washing Pantyhose
Wash them inside out but turn them while they are still wet to avoid snagging.
Dresses are Clinging
Hang your dress in the bathroom while taking a shower. This allows the steam to penetrate the material and prevents static electricity.
Running a wire coat hanger between your dress and a nylon slip will draw out the electricity and eliminate some of the clinging.
Slips that are starched will resist clinging.
Stopping a Pantyhose Run
Rub with a wet bar of soap or apply hair spray.
Cucumbers for Tired Eyes
Place fresh cucumbers on the eyelids, preferably with a facial mask on, and lie with feet elevated 15 inches higher than the head.
Avocado Mask
Mash 1/2 an avocado and add a little powdered milk if it is too runny. Apply thickly to a clean face. After 20-30 minutes remove with warm water.
Facial Scrub
Make a paste of minute oatmeal and water. Apply to face and allow to dry until it feels tight. Rub off with your fingers, using lots of back and forth motion. This scrub takes off dead skin and removes fine surface lines.
Foot Relievers
Place a face cloth over the drain in the shower and add a small piece of soap. You can now give your feet a real treat while you shower.
Soften feet with hair conditioner. Apply before bedtime and put on socks to protect bed linens.
Soothe feet by applying vapor rub.
Protecting a Fresh Hairdo
Putting on a turtleneck without ruining a fresh hairdo can be accomplished by putting a silky scarf over your head and pulling the two back corners to your mouth and holding them between your teeth.
Hot Oil Treatment
For a professional hot oil treatment, saturate hair with olive oil. Run the hottest water possible over 2 towels in your washing machine. After towels are thoroughly wet, turn machine to the spin cycle. Wrap your hair and wait 20 minutes.
Removing Dead Skin
Rub a small amount of Miracle Whip salad dressing into skin and let set for a few minutes. Start rubbing and you will be surprised at how much dead skin will roll right off.
Taunt Skin
Place 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar into a basin of warm water and splash your face thoroughly. Let dry without using a towel. This will restore the natural ph balance or acid mantle to your skin if used once a day. Acne sufferers should try this also, but be sure you start with a clean face.
Drying Nail Polish
Place hands in the freezing compartment of your refrigerator and in a few seconds your polish will be set.
Mending Lipstick
Heat the broken ends of the lipstick with a match until they melt enough to join together, then cool in the refrigerator.
Removing Gum from Hair
Rub ordinary cold cream into the gummed-up hair. Then pull down on the strands of hair several times with a dry towel to remove all traces of the gum.
Insect Bites
Apply a creamy paste of baking soda and water to the affected area and let dry.
Relieve itching by rubbing apple cider vinegar on bites.
Apply a paste of meat tenderizer and water.
Moisturizer
Wash your face thoroughly and while face is still wet apply a very small amount of petroleum jelly. Keep wetting face until the jelly is spread evenly and doesn't appear greasy. It will not stay greasy if you keep adding water.
Eye Cream
Apply odorless castor oil around your eyes before bedtime. Plastic surgeons use it on their patients following surgery.
Removing Eye Make-up
Mascara or eye-liner can be removed from the corners of your eyes or lids with pipe cleaners.
Nail Treatment
In a small applicator bottle put equal amounts of castor oil and white iodine. Apply around cuticles every night.
Razor Blades
Razor blades stored in a small jar containing rubbing alcohol will prevent rusting and the blades will last longer.
Homemade Deodorant
Heat a mixture of 2 teaspoons of baking soda, 2 teaspoons of petroleum jelly and 2 teaspoons of talcum powder in a double boiler over low heat and stir until a smooth cream forms. Store cream in a small container with a tight lid and use as you would a regular cream deodorant.
Non-Stick Bottle Tops
Apply a coat of petroleum jelly inside the covers and the grooves of bottles of nail polish, glue, varnish, etc. to prevent any trouble opening.
Hair Rinses
Blondes - rinse hair with water containing several tablespoons of lemon juice.
Brunettes and Redheads - rinse with water contain several tablespoons of apple cider vinegar.
Both will remove soapy film and give the hair a beautiful shine.
Dandruff
Washing your hair with listerine will prevent dandruff.
Blonde Hair Highlights
Add 1/4 cup lemon juice to 3/4 cup water.
Saving on Shampoo
If your shampoo and rinse are in wide mouth bottles consider switching them to squirt bottles. The shampoo will last longer if you have to squirt it out.
Problem Earrings
If your ears break out when wearing costume jewelry earrings try washing earrings with rubbing alcohol and applying 1 or 2 coats of clear nail polish to the parts that touch your ears.
Perfume Bottle Stopper Sticks
Place the bottle in the refrigerator until chilled and the stopper should be able to be removed easily. When inserting the stopper back in twist back and forth to prevent future sticking.
Plucking Eyebrows with Glasses
Try turning your glasses upside down the next time you tweeze your eyebrows.
Baking Soda Uses
Use baking soda full strength as a toothpaste.
Dissolve 1 teaspoon of baking soda in 1/2 glass of water and use as a mouthwash.
Scrub rough areas of your body, such as elbows and knees with a thick paste of baking soda and water.
Burns can be relieved by applying a paste of baking soda and water.
Sprinkle in shoes to kill odor.
Soak combs and brushes in a mixture of warm water, a little shampoo and a handful of baking soda to make them sparkling clean.
Scrub soiled fingernails and toenails with a paste of baking soda and water.
After a long day, soak feet in baking soda and water.
Suitcase Packing
When packing a suitcase put sets of lingerie, shirts, blouses, etc., in separate plastic bags that can be removed without disturbing the contents of the other packed bags. A additional plastic bag should also be packed for putting soiled laundry in.
Removing Splinters
Brush on some regular white glue and let dry. The dried glue can then be peeled off and hopefully the splinter with it.
Try placing a strip of scotch tape over the splinter and then pull off.
Shaving Legs
Using hair conditioner for shaving legs will leave them soft and smooth.
Hand Washing Liquid
Put all your small pieces of soap in an empty dishwashing detergent bottle and add a little hot water. This makes a great and cheap hand washing liquid.
Complexion Problems
Acne pimples can be dried by applying toothpaste.
Rubbing lemon juice on blackheads just before bedtime will help remove them. Wash off in the morning with cool water and repeat for a couple of nights.
For oily skin apply mint-flavored milk of magnesia. MIlk of magnesia is also a good sunburn reliever.
