Milk is good not only as a calcium source
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Whether you’re seven or thirty seven, a still warm chocolate chip cookie tastes best with a glass of cold milk. Milk is the ultimate drink, nutritious, tasty, perfect both cold and warm, plain or turned into a rich hot chocolate. It can go in you coffee or tea, it can be base for a delicious smoothie and topping for your oatmeal. But milk can do so much more than just taste well.
As a well known source of calcium milk is part of a healthy kids’ diet, but it’s also a favorite among adults, especially those having trouble with sleep, since it’s a good source of tryptophan metabolized into serotonin and melatonin. As much as kids typically just consume it, adults often use milk in beauty regimen. You can add it to your bath for its skin softening qualities, use it as an all natural make up remover, turn it into a facial mask or even apply to your skin in place of a shaving cream when you run out of the cosmetic.
Daily routine can be enhanced with milk, and it’s also helpful with less common occurrences. For relief of painful sunburn you can apply a milk compress, and any insect bites can be treated with milk to reduce itching and redness. Milk application won’t cure any skin condition, but it will ease pain and can be applied to the whole body without any danger to skin, hair or nails so use it freely with mosquito bites and poison ivy alike.
It’s not only your body that can benefit from milk application. Just like it will clean your make up, milk can help you clean different kinds of stains off your leather furniture or car seats, conditioning them at the same time. Leather shoes will also benefit from a quick milk shine, and so will your wooden furniture, so don’t be afraid to wipe them down with a soft cloth soaked in the beverage.
You might have heard about the skin and leather treatments, but most people don’t know tat a milk bath is good for plants. You just have to remember to rinse them off since milk is used as soap and any residue left off could have a damaging effect on the leaves when faced with sunlight.
Perhaps the most surprising use of milk around the house is to polish your silver and fix your china. If you want your silver to sparkle, simply soak it in sour milk for half an hour, wash in mild soap and enjoy its revived look. And if your china cracks and you’re planning to toss it, try boiling it in some milk and you just might have some more use of it in its repaired form.
Milk is delicious, and so are other dairy products, but some people are lactose intolerant and others prefer yogurt. No matter what your dietary preference, there is always use for a gallon of milk around the house, though, so next time you’re at the grocery store, pick it up and make a bath worthy of Cleopatra, get your silvers shinier than stars or try fixing your favorite tea pot with it.
