Personal Care

• Extend Toothbrush Life

Soak toothbrushes in salt water before your first use, they’ll last longer.

• Clean Teeth

Use one part fine salt to two parts baking soda — dip your toothbrush in the mixture and brush as usual. You can also use the same mix dissolved in water for orthodontic applications.

• Ease Throat Pain

Mix salt and warm water, and gargle with this to relieve a sore throat.

• Rinse Your Mouth

Mix equal parts of salt and baking soda in water for a fresh and deodorizing mouth rinse.

• Ease Mouth Problems

For cankers, abscesses, and other mouth sores rinse your mouth with a weak solution of warm salt water several times a day.

• Relieve Bee-sting Pain

Ouch? Immediately dampen the area and pack on a small pile of salt to reduce pain and swelling.

• Treat Mosquito Bites

A saltwater soak can do wonders for that mosquito-bite itch — a pinch of salt mixed with olive oil can help, too.

• Treat Poison Ivy

Same method as for treating mosquito bites (salt doesn’t seem to distinguish between itches.

• Have An Exfoliating Massage

After bathing and while still wet give yourself a massage with dry salt. It freshens skin and boosts circulation.