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| rural independent gal |
Posted - Jul 15 2009 : 6:48:57 PM
You wouldn't believe how many things potatoes are good for besides just eating. Here are a few of the uses:
Anti aging agent
Wash your face daily with potato juice (raw potato can be ground with water) which prevents wrinkles on face and make your face glow.
Skin burn
Take a raw sliced potato and make it as a paste by mixing water. Apply the paste on minor skin burns to relieve pain.
Diaper Rash
Scrape away potato pulp with the edge of a spoon, the finer the scrapings the better. Place over the affected area and diaper the child to hold things in place. (Don’t panic by the potato turning black. That is a natural process and is OK)
Headache
Take a half sliced raw potato, and rub it on your temples to get relief from headache.
Tired eyes
Place two round slices on your eyes to reduce the tiredness of your eyes.
Remove glue on hands
Potato can remove glue from hands. Use Potato to wash hands when you find it hard to remove the stickiness on hands after handling some sticky vegetables like pumpkin.
Shoe polish
Rub a raw potato on your old, dirty shoes before polishing them. They should come out nice and shiny.
Sleeping pill
Potato prevents the action of acids in our stomach that disturb our sleep. Take a boiled and mashed potato with milk before sleeping to have a peaceful sleep.
Silverware Polish
Boil potatoes in some water and remove the potato from water. Place your silver ware in the water for an hour.
Extract salt from soups and stocks
If your recipe tastes too salty as you are preparing it, toss some large sliced potatoes into the pot or pan while still on the stove. In about 5 to 10 minutes the potato slices absorb the excess salt. Remove the potato after it has done its job.
Keep glasses clear
Rubbing a potato on the glasses can prevent them from fogging up in the early morning.
Lure worms out of houseplants
If the worms crawl around the roots of plants, place a sliced raw potato around the base of the plant. The worms crawl up to eat it, you can grab them out. (Or have your man-child grab them for you! 
Oh yeah - almost forgot....VODKA!
Hope this is helpful for somebody.
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| Lessie Louise |
Posted - Aug 02 2009 : 6:47:27 PM
I have a bumper crop this year. Thank you for these ideas.
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Aug 02 2009 : 3:35:04 PM
Wow, who knew a potato could do so much? Thanks for sharing.
Dawn in IL |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Aug 01 2009 : 10:26:44 PM
Very cool!! I am going to recomend the diaper rash thing for a friend, who has two kids with chronic rashes..and I will be trying the sunburn thing with my next sunburned kid!
I will be trying the headache and sleep aid ones on ME. Thanks for posting this.
Jenny in Utah
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 01 2009 : 9:36:05 PM
I'm going to try the potatoe for sleeping.
This is all so interesting. Thanks for the post.
Marly
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