Cleaning Bathrooms

I managed to find some time to clean my bathroom today and decided to use white vinegar. Golly, that stuff really works. I had this small bottle of white vinegar which I decided to pour neat onto the shower floor and after a few minutes, I scrubbed the floor with a soft brush and all the brown stains and scum came off very easily.

To see the shower floor clean and non-slippery due to the scummy feeling really made my day. Can't wait to clean the shower floor again...

To see more good uses with white vinegar, check out the link below!

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/23-ingenious-uses-for-white-vinegar.html?&page=7

Making it easy to remove hard-boiled egg shell

It would make the job easier to de-shell a hard-boiled egg, simply by adding a little bit of cooking oil or olive oil into the water when boiling the egg. The shell of the egg is porous and the absorption of this oil acts as a coating between the shell and the boiled egg white, thus making the job of removing the shell a breeze.

Try it! :-)

Treating Chilli Burn

A group of us gathered together this morning to prepare Christmas gifts for friends and this involved cutting 'chilli padi' (those small and very hot chillies).

After completing our gift project, some of us who had contact with these 'mini dynamites' began to feel very bad burning sensation in our hands.

Pal A advised soaking our burning hands in warm water (her rational being that, if drinking warm water eased the burning sensation in the tongue due to consuming chilli, it would work for our hands too) and that we did. It was pure TORTURE!!!! It was like being scalded by hot water, and the burning sensation did not subside.

Even after 11 hours, the burning sensation remained intense. I googled for help and tried a solution - soaking my hand in cold milk. What an utter relief! The pain subsided while hand was being soaked. It came back after I washed off the milk, but the burning intensity lessened and became more bearable.

I've learnt my lesson now.. I will :

1. Wear gloves before cutting chillies or handling cut chillies.
   
2. Never inflict further excruciating pain on myself by soaking my affected anatomy in warm water.
3. Will soak my pained hand in the blessed cold milk.

I do hope that all the pain suffered today will be of worth and the Christmas gift will turn out splendidly!