The flour that will have to be used to put into practice the following suggestions can easily be the most refined available on the market, as well as the least expensive to buy, so that even if used for alternative uses, it will not endanger the wallet.
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Often to solve small household problems, to devote oneself to domestic cleaning or to create fun for the little ones at practically no cost, just take a look in your pantry, where an ingredient such as flour, which can turn into one of yours allies for cleaning dishes or for the preparation of the cartapesta or of homemade modeling clay.
La flour that will have to be used to put into practice the following suggestions can easily be the most refined available on the market, as well as the least expensive to buy, so that even if used for alternative uses, it will not endanger the wallet.
enrich your diet with fiber, amino acids, mineral salts and B vitamins, some experts recommend replace the use of 00 flour with less refined flour, semi-integral or integral. The use of flour 0, less refined, is however suitable for any kitchen preparation in which the use of the 00 variety is usually suggested. alternative.
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Copper cleaning
For an excellent cleaning and polishing of copper dishes and objects it is possible to use a compound obtained by mixing in equal parts flour, salt and white vinegar. The mixture should be applied to the stained areas, left to dry and then gently removed. Your copper objects will be perfectly shiny and clean.
Cleaning of steel
Le parts of showers, bathtubs and sinks made of stainless steel, they can be cleaned and polished more easily if a first pass is made using a cotton or microfibre cloth sprinkled with a little flour. With this method it will be easier and faster to remove soap residues and traces of moisture.
Keep away the ants
If you prefer that ants do not enter your home by passing through the cracks in doors or windows, try create a boundary line sprinkling some flour in the vicinity of the point from which they prefer to enter. This way you will create a barrier that the ants should not cross.
In the vegetable garden
Flour can be used to remove parasites from your garden, with particular reference to potato and pumpkins plants, in the immediate vicinity of which it is possible to spread a little white flour as a substitute for the use of substances harmful to both humans and environment such as pesticides.
Kitchen gloves
Flour can be used if you find it difficult to wear rubber or latex kitchen gloves or if you cannot bear their contact with the skin for very long. Not all gloves contain a protective layer, which can be created sprinkling them inside with white flour. Remember to always buy sturdy gloves so you can reuse them on numerous occasions.
Cleaning of playing cards
I old decks of playing cards they often bear the signs of time and the footprints of those who used them. How do you make your cards look like new? It is enough to arrange some of them in a bag, pour a little flour into it, close it at the end and shake everything. This operation will give you some much better looking cards.
Stress ball
Starting with a balloon not excessive in size and from simple flour it is possible to make an anti-stress ball at almost zero cost. Just fill the balloon with flour using a funnel and trying to give your ball a spherical shape as much as possible. Its diameter must be at least four centimeters. Finally, close your balloon with a knot that is as close as possible to the limit of the flour content of your new stress ball.
Salt dough
Flour can be used for home preparation of salt dough, so that the little ones can play with it in complete safety and avoiding the purchase of industrial modeling pastes. Salt dough can be made very quickly using only four simple ingredients. Read the complete recipe here.
Glue for papier-mâché
Flour can be easily used for preparation of an ecological glue for papier-mâché, to replace the liquid glues commonly on the market. It can be prepared by diluting 50 grams of flour with a little water at room temperature and then pouring everything into a pot containing 800 ml of boiling water. Mix everything until you get a homogeneous mixture, let it cool and use with the help of a flat brush for glue the different layers of paper, which you will have, for example, recovered from your old magazines.
Modeling paste
Unlike salt dough, which must be baked in the oven or left to dry in the sun in summer or on a radiator in winter once you have made your creations, the simple modeling clay it can be prepared and reused several times to play by children, having the foresight to keep it inside hermetically sealed containers. For its preparation it is necessary to work together, until a homogeneous mixture is obtained, two glasses of hot water, two glasses of flour, a glass of salt up and two tablespoons of vegetable oil. Adding two teaspoons of cream of tartar it will make the modeling clay more elastic. The dough can be combined with gods natural dyes, such as turmeric, cinnamon or cocoa powder.
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