Seemingly starch, ordinary potato starch. But if you think about it, how many useful things from him in everyday life. So my wife thought about it. Fortunately, it is absolutely cheap, so I buy it every week without a murmur, this does not greatly affect the thickness of the wallet.
Here's what my wife found use for starch:
1. It can often happen in the kitchen - you can get burned
And here starch will help us. It is enough to stir it in water until an ointment or gel is obtained, and put it on the burned area. After 15 minutes (in our case, the hand), you can wash it. The painful sensations will pass.
2. Windows are washed with starch
Stir in water, and apply the resulting substance to the windows, wait until it dries completely, and remove the remains with a waffle towel. There will be no streaks or dirt on your windows.
3. Common country problem, floor creak
It can be easily removed with starch, it is enough for them to sprinkle the formed gaps between the boards. The creak will disappear for a while.
4. Starch can be used to clean carpet
Did something greasy fall on your favorite carpet? Run for starch and sprinkle it on the dirty, greasy place. Wait 15-20 minutes, vacuum. The fat will absorb the starch with pleasure. The carpet will be clean.
5. Remember the USSR, starched linen, starched collars
These are not empty words. Starch was widely used for ironing. Now, for some reason, this method has gone into the old days, walking it is very effective.
6. Do your favorite shoes smell? Starch will help
Pour the starch into your boots overnight, and shake it out in the morning. All moisture, along with an unpleasant odor, will go away along with the starch.
7. Are you worried, nervous?
Starch can, in combination with essential oils, make your condition more calm. Put some starch on a saucer, a couple of drops of ether on it, and this aroma will calm you down.
8. Do you have wrinkles?
Did you know that starch is one of the ingredients in smoothing face masks? Now you know!
9. Starch is actively used in cooking
With the addition of it, delicious meat gravies and airy, light, delicious omelets are obtained!