puffy paint with shaving cream
Shaving chrism can be acclimated for added than a close, bland shave. Use the afterward tips to get the best out of bargain cans of atom cream.
Shaving-cream paint: Combine non-gel atom chrism with a brace of drops of aliment coloring. Let your accouchement use architecture paper, a sliding bottle door, a breadth of antithesis or a cookie sheet, or they can aloof sit in the tub for finger-foam fun. It's accessible to clean: Simply bathe with water. Make billowy acrylic by bond according genitalia cement and atom cream. Add a brace of drops of aliment appearance or acrylic acrylic for color. Use a paintbrush and acrylic assimilate architecture paper.
Spot cleaner for walls and carpets: Administer atom chrism on the crayon-stained breadth and leave it for a few minutes. Apple-pie the atom chrism abroad with a clammy cloth, or use a abrade pad aboriginal and again a clammy cloth. One reader, Jessica from Washington, shares:
"I use atom chrism -- the buttery affectionate that I can get at the dollar abundance -- on light-colored carpets. Squirt a little atom chrism on the atom and dab/blot it with a clammy rag. Wait until it dries, again exhaustion the spot. You may accept to amusement it two or three times, but it works. I got soaked-in, aged red soda out of white carpeting and coffee out of biscuit carpet."
Appliances and bathrooms: Put atom chrism on your bath mirror and apple-pie it off to accumulate your mirror fog-free. Let kids be little helpers, too. Give them some atom chrism and a washcloth and let them apple-pie asphalt and vinyl floors, sinks, tubs, faucets and mirrors.
Another reader, Tisha from Canada, shares: "Shaving chrism (the barmy kind) gets the crud out of the handles of your appliances. Rub it assimilate the handle in the bedraggled spots and let it sit for 10 minutes, again rub it bottomward with a clammy cloth."
Party fun: Let kids put atom chrism (or beard gel or mousse) in their beard and actualize funny hairstyles. Another reader, Sami, emails her affair bold idea: "Older boys generally adore gross or blowzy games. We comedy a bold breadth two kids accomplice up. One kid bags atom chrism on his head.
"The added stands abaft a band and tries to bandy Cheerios into the atom cream. The aggregation that gets the best Cheerios ashore in the atom chrism wins. Obviously, this is an alfresco game. Afterward, the kids can apple-pie up with a baptize airship fight."
School board cleaner: It's quick and accessible to abode a baby atom of atom chrism on students' desks with a cardboard anhydrate to apple-pie it off. Lower elementary-age kids can convenance autograph afterimage words afore wiping it away.
Clean hands: Bring a can of atom chrism to apple-pie your calmly back you go camping. Another reader, P.J. from New York, adds: "This is abnormally acceptable on your calmly back they are covered with timberline sap. It works amazingly able-bodied on beginning clothes stains, adhesive messes and abject showers."
Sunburn: For austere burns, seek medical attention. But to get you through the aboriginal 24 hours of a balmy sunburn (read: no blisters) that stings and causes discomfort, booty some ibuprofen and alcohol affluence of baptize to rehydrate your body. Applying alkali and aloe can advice abate the pain, too.
Another reader, Jen, shares her suggestion: "I use atom chrism cream on sunburns. Yes, it is a little blowzy and funny-looking. I administer it to the bake as if I was activity to barber that area, again I let it sit. I leave it on until it has blood-soaked in, again I apple-pie it off application air-conditioned water. Don't ask me how, but it pulls the calefaction out and prevents blistering. I accept acclimated this several times on myself and my daughter, as we bake easily."
(Sara Noel is the buyer of Frugal Village (www.frugalvillage.com), a website that offers practical, money-saving strategies for accustomed living. To accelerate tips, comments or questions, address to Sara Noel, c/o Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, MO, 64106, or email sara@frugalvillage.com.)
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