Candles have long been considered romantic, but an accident can easily leave you with a mess to clean up. Luckily, most candle wax is easily removed from all surfaces with the proper cleaning method. Carpet is the most common surface for candle wax stains. To begin, you should use ice cubes to lower the temperature ...
Getting rid of dried up, old paint stains from your carpet is easier than you think. Even paint stains that are over a year old can be easily removed with the right products and a little elbow grease. Recently my husband spilled a whole gallon of light, almost white, blue paint in the middle of ...
Are you in the process of creating gift baskets for your family, friends and co-workers? If so, you may want to consider whipping up a batch of scented rubbing alcohol. After all, scented rubbing alcohol and unscented rubbing alcohol essential serve the same function. The only major difference between the two is that one is ...
I have been using rubbing alcohol for years for cleaning and other things and thought maybe today I would share some of the uses. It is so much cheaper than by other chemicals over the counter and you get basically the same results. 1. I use rubbing alcohol full strength in a spray bottle to ...
Want to make one household chore a lot easier without spending a lot of money? I know a good, reliable, easy to find, and most of all, cheap household product that works wonders on one of the most onerous tasks imaginable — polishing brass. If you¹ve ever spent hours polishing brass, you know that about ...
In your bathroom at this very moment, you have a substance that is more useful than you ever realized. Rubbing alcohol can be used not only to clean a cut, but you can also use rubbing alcohol to sanitize items in your home. The uses for rubbing alcohol are endless, but here are some of ...
If your kids participate in sports, you probably have discovered smelly shoes that were so smelly they seemed to pass the point of no return. Tennis shoes aren’t the only types of smelly shoes. Work boots, work shoes, moccasins, and many other types of shoes and boots sometimes end up smelly and disgusting. My son ...
Add a flare of country to your table by making an interesting drinking glass or goblet using a mason jar and a tapered glass candlestick holder. Pint jars work the best for this project but go all out and make a very large goblet using a quart jar. The process is the same no matter ...
If your houseplants aren’t looking as healthy as they once did, your houseplants might be infested with bugs. Examine the soil and the undersides of leaves, and look for telltale signs of insects. Look for the bugs themselves as well as tiny webs, cotton-like tufts, sticky residue, or scaly lesions. These are all signs of ...
Next to fleas, ticks are probably the worst insect-enemy of your dog. These parasites attach themselves to your dog’s skin. If they go undetected, ticks can stay attached for hours at a time. They use their mouth parts to suck blood out of your pet; that’s what ticks feed on. At the same time, they ...
