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Unexpected New Uses for Bathroom Items

A soak in the tub can wash away your cares, but there's more magic to be found in the medicine cabinet

Unexpected New Uses for Bathroom Items
Mark Lund
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Baby Oil
  • Remove latex paint from skin. Pour a generous amount of baby oil on a cotton ball and scrub.


  • Untangle a necklace chain. Massage a dab of oil onto the tangled area, then use a straight pin to carefully pull apart the knot.


  • Peel off bandages. Avoid involuntary hair removal — and extra agony — by rubbing baby oil over and around the sticky parts of an adhesive bandage before pulling it off.


  • Slip off a stuck ring. Massage oil onto your finger and rotate the ring until you can slide it off. (This trick works to get body parts out of a number of sticky situations.)


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