Treat Warts
Common warts can be treated by rubbing them with a piece of raw potato. The potato is very high in potassium and vitamin C which promotes healing. This should be done every day until the wart has gone.
Soothe Burns
We all get minor burns on hands and arms while cooking food in the kitchen. Gently touch a minor burn with a piece of cut potato. It will soothe it and take out the sting.
Remove Berry Stains
If you have been picking berries, or making a pie with them, your finger tend to get stained. A piece of raw potato rubbed on to them will take off the stain. If the problem is really bad, dip the cut potato into lemon juice before using it.
Remove Salt from Soups
If you are making soups and stews and find that you have added a little too much salt, add a cut up potato and it will absorb the salt. This is a scientifically explained tipped. The salt enters the cells of the potato by a process called osmosis.
Compost for Potted Plants
Chopped potatoes make good compost for plants. Chop the potato up and put it into the hole before you plant flowering plants like geraniums and bizzie lizzies.
Clean Silverware
Clean silverware by soaking for an hour in water that you have boiled your potatoes in. Remove the potatoes first, of course.
Grow Geraniums
To grow new geraniums take a potato and cut a very long, thin hole in it. Push the geranium stem into the potato and plant the whole thing. The potato will give the new plant everything it needs to grow strong.
Cold or Hot Compress
Potatoes hold the heat and the cold very well, so they make good compresses. Heat a potato, wrap it in a cloth and use as a hot compress. Do the same with a cold one that has been in the freezer.
Arrange Flowers
To hold small flower arrangements without the need to buy that expensive florist's foam, cut a potato in half length ways. Place with the cut side down in a container and poke hole in the surface so that you can insert flower stems into it.
Face Mask
Take a little mashed potato and add lemon juice and a teaspoon of milk. This makes a great face mask which you can put on, leave for twenty minutes and then rinse off. Your skin will feel great.
