Sugar which is primarily used as a sweetener in foods has some other uses, some of which relate to the area of health. Here are a few surprising ways you can use sugar:
1) Healing Wounds:
Wounds resulting from cuts, crushing and ulcers can be treated with sugar. Just apply a pinch of sugar on the wound and wait while the sugar kills the bacteria and heals the wound quickly.
2) Soothing a Burnt Tongue:
You may sometimes burn your tongue by sipping a hot beverage or biting into a dish without realizing how hot it is. You can arrest the burning sensation by taking a little sugar. Sugar not only gives your tongue a sweet taste but administers a soothing touch too. You will get instant relief from the burning sensation. By killing the bacteria on the spot that is burnt, sugar ensures that the wound on your tongue remains benign and short lived.
3) Cleaning Your Hands:
If your hands get dirty from grease, colour or some other grimy substance, add a bit of sugar to the soap foam and rub on your hands. You will see your hand turning miraculously clean immediately, a result even the most effective soaps can't give, when used alone.
4) Moisturising Your Lips:
You can create an excellent moisturising cream by adding a pinch of sugar to a mix of jojoba oil, olive oil and the mint of vanilla extract. Apply it on your lip and experience a highly effective moisturising.
5) Keeping Your Cakes and Cookies Fresh:
Put a few cubes of sugar into a sealed jar of cookies, cakes or cheese to keep the substance fresh long. Do this only in a sealed container since in a container that has air circulation, the sugar cubes may melt and make your cookies or cakes sticky.
6) Smoothen Your Skin:
Just as you can add sugar to a mixture of oils to prepare a moisturising cream for your lips, so you can make a skin cream by mixing sugar, one or more of Jojoba, Olive Canola and Almond oils and small quantities of essential oils. This oily cream can be used for body peeling. The rough texture of sugar will remove the broken cells of the skin and the oils will make your skin smooth.
The above are some uses of sugar for improving your health and physical upkeep. Sugar also has some other uses:
1) Calming the babies:
Mix one spoon of sugar with four glasses of water. Give a few ounces of this solution to your baby before vaccinating it. The baby will be calmer when it is being injected for vaccination. Pediatrics studies have confirmed this effect.
2) Nourishing the Flowers:
Add three teaspoons of sugar and two tablespoons of vinegar to one liter of water and use this mixture on your home flower patch. The stem of the flower will be nourished by sugar while the bacteria will be kept in check by the vinegar.
3) Killing insects and pesticides:
What is sweet to a man can be lethal to insects and pesticides!. You can use sugar as a pesticide and insecticide in several ways.
a) A mixture of sugar and baking powder kept in places frequented by cockroaches will kill the cockroaches. The sugar will attract them and the baking powder will do them in.
b) Boil a mixture of sugar, honey and water, taking them in equal quantities in a pot, stirring the mixture while it boils, to make the uniform and keep it fluid. Dip a sticky paper into this solution and hang the sheet on the wall by making a hole in the corner of the sheet. You will find flies flocking to the paper and getting stuck there.
c) Bury raw sugar in your garden to kill pesticides. Burying 5 kilograms of sugar for 250 square meters of sugar will be very effective. However, you will have to wait for sometime to see the results.
Who says sugar is not good for your health? You can make it good for improving your health in several ways besides using it fort other useful purposes too.
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