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Epsom Salts is particularly useful in gardening! It is especially good to help produce healthy, sweet tomatoes and peppers. Plants can be spayed or soaked in Epsom salts or it can be used to amend the soil in a variety of ways. My grandmother used it quite a bit in her garden, which was always stunning.
Olive oil is a natural antibiotic and is excellent for most skin irritations. Scratches, things like that. I would never put it on a burn of any kind. Also good for chapped lips, dry hands and feet. It was recommended to me by a Nurse Practitioner for a bug bite on my lip.
Surprised white vinegar's not mentioned. After trying to scrub off dye on painted white wood for a half hour, looked up what to do. Mixed white vinegar with baking soda (on your list) to make a paste, and it worked very quickly. I'd be more interested in hearing what borax is. Keep seeing this mentioned. This is natural?
Borax, also known as sodium borate, sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid. It is usually a white powder consisting of soft colorless crystals that dissolve easily in water.
Borax has a wide variety of uses. It is a component of many detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes. It is also used to make buffer solutions in biochemistry, as a fire retardant, as an anti-fungal compound for fiberglass, as an insecticide, as a flux in metallurgy, a texturing agent in cooking, and as a precursor for other boron compounds.
The term borax is used for a number of closely related minerals or chemical compounds that differ in their crystal water content, but usually refers to the decahydrate. Commercially sold borax is usually partially dehydrated.
The word borax is Persian and originates in the Middle-Persian būrak.
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Yvonne