Salt and bay leaves are worth gold at home: the many hidden uses

Salt and bay leaves are fundamental at home, as they solve many problems that no one would ever have thought of acting in this way.

Salt and bay leaf
Generally, coarse salt and fine salt are used for cooking. Bay leaf, on the other hand, is useful especially if you have digestive problems, it has incredible properties that, once discovered, make the product become essential and indispensable in the kitchen and in general at home.

There are multiple uses that concern both salt and bay leaves, very few know them but they are exceptional natural remedies ready to give fantastic and sensational results, without much effort and above all without spending a penny.

Which is not nothing, especially in a difficult period like the one we have been going through for months.

When coarse salt proves useful at home
Coarse salt is found in every home in the world, especially in Italy, grandmothers even use it to salt pasta water. A few spoonfuls can also be useful to soften fabrics in the washing machine, as they remove water by eliminating excess limescale.

In this way, the water becomes less hard and therefore treats the clothes much better and at no cost. The results are jeans and towels that look like new once washed in the washing machine, even if they are out of fashion or simply dried in the dryer, velvety like never before.

In addition, the salt used to wash white clothes prevents yellowing while for colored clothes it rejuvenates the colors that become much more vivid and bright. To obtain these results, it is advisable to put coarse salt in the water and then soak the items to be washed, whether colored or white, and then proceed to machine wash as always.

Bay leaves at home act as natural air fresheners
The bay, for its part, has very clear aromatic leaves, useful for health, but which also eliminate odors from the house. They are perfect for example to absorb the smell of fried foods or in general when cooking any dish.

To do this, place a few leaves in a pot with water and let them boil for at least 15 minutes. The aroma of the leaves will fill the house and eliminate all the bad odors present.

A bowl with water, coarse salt and bay leaves, that’s what it’s for
A tip that many will probably follow is to fill a bowl with water, bay leaves and salt that keep insects away, as they give off a repellent smell, unpleasant for most animals and insects such as flies and mosquitoes.

coarse salt mixture
If you open a window in the summer, the house is practically the target of any type of insect. If you want to prevent this from happening, simply soak a cotton ball in the solution and then leave it on the windowsill or on the windowsill concerned.

The smell released by the wad will be enough to keep any insect away, thus protecting the environment of the house for a long time. Alternatively, you can fill a bowl with water, salt and bay leaves. The bowl is placed on the windowsill or in strategic corners of the house.

The effects will be visible almost immediately and will be even better than when using pesticides that are bad for health and can have devastating consequences on humans and animals.

Salt and bay leaf, superstitious rites
The same method, coarse salt and bay leaves among others, is among the superstitious rites. Both ingredients are used to keep bad luck away from the house.

bay leaf
If you want to exploit 100% of the potential of bay leaf, you should sleep with leaves under your pillow because apparently it helps you make decisions when you find yourself in difficult and unpleasant situations.

At home, however, it can be useful to burn bay leaves to purify the air and the entire environment. Returning to superstitious rituals, if you want to eliminate or ward off any negativity, in addition to the bowl filled with water, coarse salt and bay leaves, you can follow this advice.

Collect 3 cloves of garlic, 1 slice of onion and 3 bay leaves, place them in a saucer for 24 hours. At the end of the ritual, everything is thrown in the trash, except the saucer, which must be washed with water and coarse salt.