16 unexpected ways to use toothpaste in everyday life

Cheap toothpastes are good until the first serious problems with your teeth or gums, but what if the dentist prescribed a remedy and you still have stocks of budget tubes at home? We know more than one unusual use of toothpaste and are ready to share all of them!

1. Remove stubborn stains from clothing

Planted a coffee stain on a light blouse? Or stained your shirt with lipstick? Or maybe your pen leaked right in your pocket? If you put the coveted remedy on the stain, rub it a bit and only then wash the thing in the machine, then getting rid of such a difficult stain will be much easier. True, if you let the stain dry and become old, then even toothpaste will not help you anymore.

By the way

If you put a stain on a colored thing, then it is better to bypass this advice: during friction, you risk whitening and washing part of the dye, which as a result will leave a bright spot on things.

2. Refresh leather surfaces

It is enough to drop ketchup on a light leather sofa or spill some wine on it - and removing the stain will already be problematic. Even if you wipe the surface right away and the skin does not have time to color, small particles of contamination will clog into the microfolds of the skin structure and will treacherously betray your sloppiness. Rub the stain with a toothbrush with a little paste - and the skin will look like brand new! The same applies, for example, to white leather boots with street dirt embedded in microcracks, light gloves or scuffed bags, and a light leather car interior.

3. Clean silver jewelry or dishes

Silver tends to darken and fade over the years, and some people even build their business on professional polishing silverware. But you can polish them yourself with any small abrasive, and where do you find the abrasive particles are smaller than in toothpaste? In this case, it is better to use not a brush, but some kind of cloth: a microfiber cloth, a piece of felt, or even a cotton scarf. This polishing method will take a lot of time, but the brilliance of family cutlery is worth it!

4. Wipe the old plaque from the mugs

They forgot to pour tea from the mug, and after a week they found that the raid had eaten so that it was easier to throw out the mug than to wash it? And here is another situation where toothpaste will help in everyday life! Just a minute with an old toothbrush in your hands - and the cup will no longer pose a biological threat.

5. Polish metal and chrome products

And again, we sing an ode to microscopic abrasive particles: barely noticeable grooves on the tap, small scratches on a metal sink from cleaning with coarse powders or traces of a metal sponge on an expensive stainless steel pan can easily remove polishing with a rag and toothpaste!

Tip

All polishing work does not make sense with gel or children's pastes, since abrasive particles are usually not added to them.

6. Get rid of bad smell

They took coffee and milk in a thermos to work and forgot to wash it? the flowers stood in a vase for a couple of weeks, and no one changed the water in it? Cut the onion on the board, and now think how to cut the fruit for dessert? A quick way to get rid of unpleasant odors is to wipe or rinse the source with toothpaste! After all, she copes with a bad breath with a bang, which means she can cope here.

7. Dry pimples

Surprisingly, a dentifrice perfectly dries up inflammation, for example, acne or herpes starting: the inflammation disappears overnight, and after 2 days the pimple will be almost invisible. The main thing is to apply it pointwise and only on inflammation, because healthy skin can also be overdried.

8. Remove dirt from nails

Do you like to tinker in the garden? Or in the garage? Or peeled a couple of dozen tangerines, and the nails acquired an orange tint? Wipe off dirt, fuel oil or ether by brushing your nails with a toothbrush and toothpaste! We assure you that nails will not only become clean, but will also gain an attractive shine.

By the way

Many girls have already included toothpaste cleaning in their list of beauty treatments: the nails are cleaned, polished and bleached at the same time, while the cuticle is gently exfoliated. Agree, not every professional manicure tool has such an effect!

9. Bring back the original look of the rubber sole of the sneaker

Oh, this embossed sole of sneakers or slip-ons: if the dirt has eaten, then you can no longer wipe it with a simple rag. Throwing shoes is not an option, the sneakers are not worn out at all, and it is a shame to walk with such a dirty sole. And you try to use a brush and a small amount of toothpaste - bleaches with a bang!

10. Prevent fogging

After a shower, do not see anything in the mirror? Does the ski resort constantly fog up glasses? Want to prevent fogging in your car glass? Wipe the glass with a solution of toothpaste in water or polish them with a small amount, and this common problem in everyday life will not bother you again!

11. Relieve itching from insect bites

If you have a strong reaction to insect bites and you constantly comb them on trips or after working in the country, then take toothpaste with you: the itching will decrease significantly, and it will be much easier to transfer the mosquito attack, since it could not be prevented.

By the way

The paste can also help with minor burns and calluses, if the skin is intact and there is no wound on it.

12. Polish the gadget screen or the surface of old drives

The new phone or tablet looks simply hypnotic with this smooth and pristine black screen mirror. But a couple of months pass - and the display does not look so fresh, although it seems there are no scratches on it. It's all about micro-scratches, which polishing with paste will help get rid of: 2-3 minutes rubbing with a cloth on the display - and the screen or disks will become almost perfectly even!

13. Return the whiteness to the piano keys

The piano keys are one of the standard combinations of black and white, therefore, turning yellow, they become a perfectionist’s nightmare. Light polishing with toothpaste will help bring everything back to its place: yellowness will leave the keys for the next few years, taking with it dullness and small scratches.

14. Remove plaque or burn

Plaque from hard water from the shower, limescale from the kettle, dirt on the iron or a burnout from the pan can also be wiped off with toothpaste and a brush! It works no worse, and most importantly, more delicately than other abrasive products.

15. Get rid of stains on carpets

To stain a stain on a light carpet is problematic, so we advise you to rely on the method of stain removal with toothpaste. To do this, immediately apply the product to the contamination, brush the stain, and then clean up the residue with a clean brush in several passes. Naturally, the faster you start to clean the stain, the better the result will be, although bleaching pastes can cope even with old stains on light carpets.

16. Save the white walls from children's drawings

Which child does not like to leave a masterpiece with pencils or markers on the wall? But only parents are more upset than happy. Do not worry, re-sticking or repainting the white wall is optional if you apply the toothpaste correctly for cleaning. If the wall is painted, then a small amount of paste and a rag will help to remove the pictures even from the water emulsion. True, for water-based paint, this only works in the case of white walls, so lovers of the Scandinavian style in the interior were lucky. If the walls are vinyl wallpaper, then you can clean any colors: they do not let moisture in, so that the picture is wiped off without harm to the wallpaper. The main thing is not to rub much.

An impressive amount of alternative uses, right? Who would have thought that the paste is able not only to take care of the cleanliness and health of the oral cavity, but also to restore beauty and even polish minor scratches! Well, now is the time to try out all these everyday tricks and share the results!