Is Your Cornstarch Just For Cooking? Find Out More

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Not everything labeled for kitchen use is confined to the kitchen. Your household, in general, includes plenty of things that you can use everywhere around your house. Your kitchen, for instance, contains ingredients which can be used in making cleaning solutions for example.

You may be surprised to hear that your cornstarch is not used only in cooking, but also in other tasks outside your kitchen. You could use your cornstarch to untangle stuck knots, make a splendid nail polish and soothe sunburns.

The cornstarch powder stored in boxes is actually made of a corn kernel. Ancient Egyptians were among the first ones to use starches in making multiple cosmetic and adhesive products in around 1000 BC.

The starch they used to have was not necessarily derived from corn; they used different grains. Keep reading until the very end to discover 15 situations in which cornstarch is useful.

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A nice saucy meal can’t do without a good preparation of the sauce. It is not just a question of adding ingredients and spices. Not at all! It is about choosing the ingredients that are likely a tasty combination plus the thickness of the sauce.

Yes, that is right! What makes a good butter chicken sauce, Thai curry sauce or a keto pasta sauce is its thickness. With the addition of a few spoons of your cheap cornstarch to your dish, you can influence the texture of your sauce.

Take a bowl, add a little of water and some cornstarch, then mix all the ingredients to be added to your sauce while cooking.

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First of all, you got to avoid consuming premade omelets or frozen omelets for they are absolutely unhealthy. Homemade meals are always the best and healthiest options for a healthy lifestyle.

You can fix a delicious omelet at home, using 2 or 3 eggs, some spinach, pepper, salt, and some garlic. The secret behind the delicious taste lies in the fluffiness of the omelet itself.

One-fourth teaspoon of cornstarch mixed together with an egg or two, bet and cooked can make tasty, fluffy omelet. It is a healthy morning start.

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Summer is on the way! Do you know what that means? Yes, more days at the beach and under the shining sun. Do you usually consider the effects of sun rays on your body after spending hours, lying on the sandy beach?

Maybe, you should do that from now and on. Your skin may suffer from serious irritation as a result of sunburns and other skin reactions. The best skin irritation treatment you can use at home to calm and sooth the irritations is cornstarch.

Take some cold water and add 3 tablespoons of cornstarch to form a thick paste. Apply it on your skin, using a gauze pad or a cotton ball. Let the paste set on your skin until it dries, then wash it away with warm water.

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The most stubborn stains are the oily ones. Clothes which are stained with oil shouldn’t be tossed into your washing machine without getting rid of the stains first. You can use a concrete stain remover, but it may not be as effective as expected.

In order to remove the black grease stains on clothes, you could use cornstarch. Several housekeepers swear by its efficiency in dealing with oily smears and spills.

What you have to do is putting some cornstarch on the stains, let it set for 2 hours or less, then remove the cornstarch to put your stainless clothes in the washing machine.

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There is one word which can describe the unique usefulness of bleach pens which is MAGICAL. In fact, bleach pens can be used in various situations.

Despite having many people suspected the usefulness of bleach pens, they are still useful in crafting, decorating, removing stains and cleaning the ring around the collar.

And yes, you can use your bleach pen to clean grout as well. These are just few practical uses of bleach pens. In fact, you can make your own bleach pen with just some cornstarch.

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Cats are really good at this, aren’t they? They completely enjoy playing with a ball of wool and trying to detangle the knots. Humans don’t have much of this skill, but if you got a knot; how would manage to detangle it? Untying a knot is pretty defying.

However, if you sprinkle some cornstarch and rub in it on the knot, you may easily untie it. How does it really work? Basically, the friction, existing between the rope’s fibers will be reduced thanks to the quick effects of cornstarch. This way, the knot will become easier to untie.

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Do you like painting? Do you like spending time with your little ones, painting and drawing? Well, in this case, you might need more paint than you think. You can make your own homemade paint, but not the yellow exterior paint or the outside wall paint.