Baby Oil Uses - Not Just for Baby Soft Skin
Why I Buy Baby Oil With No Children at Home
Baby oil is associated with babies, baths, and baby soft skin. And it's nice for all of that. But baby oil is very cheap and there are a myriad of baby oil uses that can be used around the house. Although I don't have children anymore, I still keep a bottle of baby oil handy. Here are a few reasons why:
Baby Oil Uses for Beauty
Everyone knows about baby oil's use as a cheap, gentle makeup remover,
don't they? If you didn't, you do now. Just put baby oil on a cotton
ball or cotton square. Use it to remove about any makeup, even mascara.
And you get soft skin out of the deal, too.
One of my favorite baby oil uses is as a moisturizer for my hands and
feet at night. I wear cotton socks and gloves to bed after applying the
baby oil. When I wake up, my hands and feet are so soft and smooth. I
also massage baby oil into my cuticles at night. This is really
effective at preventing hang nails.
Another excellent beauty use for baby oil is for shaving. Forget
expensive shaving cream that always seems to run out when you need it
most. Baby oil softens the hair, making it easy to shave. Just rub into
your skin a couple of minutes before shaving. Plus, you get super soft
legs as a result. Works on beards, too.
Use expensive hair serum to control frizzies? Baby oil to the rescue of
your pocketbook! It works just as well as expensive hair products to
smooth hair and control frizz. It only takes a very little amount, or
your hair will look limp and oily! Just put a drop or two into your
palms, rub together, and then run your hands through your hair where it
needs it.
Uses for Baby Oil Around the House
Another of my preferred baby oil uses is for polishing furniture and
woodwork. I have lots of wood furniture, solid wood doors and woodwork
throughout my house. Whenever they start to look dull, most of the time I
use baby oil. I just pour a bit on a clean cloth and polish away. If
it's gentle enough for baby skin, I figure it's fine for my wood
furniture. And it works really well.
Baby oil is great at removing sticky things that don't want to be
removed. I use baby oil to remove stickers instead of that expensive
stuff you can buy in home improvement stores just for that purpose. It
also removes gum.
If I notice a squeaky door or a drawer that keeps getting stuck and I
don't have any regular oil lubricant around, out comes my handy bottle
of cheap baby oil that I have poured into a spray bottle. (I use an old
window cleaner bottle that I recycled, no less.)
Another of my unusual but effective baby oil uses is for untangling
necklaces. I just put a couple of drops of baby oil on the knot, and it
helps loosen it for easier detangling. It also works if you have a ring
stuck on your finger. Just add a dab of baby oil to your finger above
the ring. Massage it down under the ring. It will loosen the ring right
off your finger!
Bet You Didn't Know Baby Oil Was so Useful
I bet you didn't know there were so many baby oil uses! If you have any
more uses for baby oil that I haven't mentioned, why not tell me about
it in the suggestions below?
Oh yeah, one thing baby oil is NOT recommended for is as a personal
lubricant. It will destroy a condom, diaphragm, or other type of barrier
type birth control, rendering them useless. Plus, using baby oil can
cause yeast infections. So, don't mention that use! I don't want any
unwanted pregnancies or yeast infections on my watch. ;-)