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Sunday, August 9, 2009

White Distilled Vinegar.

WHAT DO......
  • dirty floors
  • ear infections
  • salads
  • easter eggs
  • jelly-fish-stings
  • grimy hair, and
  • cuts
HAVE IN COMMON?



WHITE DISTILLED VINEGAR.
Yep, that's right.


Apple Cider Vinegar {Dr.Bragg's Organic Raw Unfiltered, of course!} is my go-to for most things. I use it to sass up a salad dressing, I add it to my ice water, and add a capful to a cup of hot green tea with honey. It helps to curb the appetite, clear up the skin, promote healthy digestion, so on and so forth. There are a few things though that I call in ACV's cousin, WDV {white distilled vinegar} for.

To begin, White Distilled Vinegar is made from sun-ripened grain and crystal clear water. It's cheap and eco-friendly - bada bing, bada bang - I love it. For $5 you walk away with a gallon of the good stuff, enough for every ailment and cleaning task at hand!

I used WDV for two things today. Cleaning my hair, and getting rid of this damn ear infection. Being a surfer, constantly in the water, I am plagued with ear infections. These ear infections occur rather frequently while I'm in Costa Rica, and this past year Shawn introduced {or should I say REintroduced me} to WDV. Pour about two capfuls into your ear while laying on one side. Let it sit in there for about 3 minutes, more time if you have it. I'm telling you, in a few days - usually 3 - the ear infection is gone. It works better than any prescription or over-the-counter drug I've used for ear infections, and it sure as hell is cheaper.

This evening when I got home from work, my hair was ultra scuzzy. Sweating like crazy, using crappy shampoo and saturating my hair in conditioner, spending extra time in salt water, and swimming in my parents pool has left a layer of gunk on my hair that just won't wash off. When I was a kid my blonde hair used to turn green from the chlorine - YES, green - and Whitney Hendee turned me onto WDV. All of those "pool" shampoos are too expensive, and they never work anyways. Sure enough, after soaking in the tub with WDV in my hair, the green was gone!! Voila! So now, about every month, I soak my hair with a cup or two of vinegar and let it work it's magic.

For more information about the wonders of White Distilled Vinegar, check out the following:




1001 Uses For White Distilled Vinegar:
http://www.vinegartips.com/Scripts/
Categories are Laundry, Garden, Cleaning, Health, Automotive, Pets, Cleaning.
*This site is super cool. They have some great recommendations that I've never thought of or heard of, and they reiterated some of the uses that I recommend. Check it out.

Earth Clinic : White Vinegar Cures:
http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/white_vinegar.html
Testimonials and Suggestions
*Earth Clinic is one of my FAVORITE sites, so no wonder that they have an abundance of information about this.

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