27. Deal with unpleasant smells after preparing onion or garlic
Onion and garlic are extremely smelly and even washing your hands with soap and water for a few minutes is often not enough to get rid of the bad smells these two key ingredients leave on your hands. The best way to get rid of this unpleasant odour is to prepare your hands with salt before washing them with soap. Just make sure to properly rub the salt into your hands. You won’t have to use a large amount, depending on how bad the smell is, only a few sprinkles may be enough. After you are done with the salt rub you can simply use soap and water and voila, the smell is gone!
Apart from salt, you can also use the coffee waste left behind after boiling the popular breakfast drink. Make sure to let it cool down first obviously. Coffee grounds work just like salt. Just rub your hands with it and then rinse off with water and soap.
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Are you smoking cigarettes? Then you can use these tricks for getting rid of cigarette smells as well. Rubbing salt also helps remove the yellow stains left behind by tobacco smoke.