Leather Cleaner
Believe it or not, egg whites can be used to clean and restore leather. Through scrubbing, you can easily remove dirt from the surface while adding a protective covering to the leather.
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Unusual Uses For Eggs
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Easter baskets are filled with colorful and delicious treats, including chocolate bunnies, marshmallow peeps and jelly beans. Along with delicious treats, another holiday staple is often found inside baskets... Easter eggs! Dyeing eggs for Easter is a long standing tradition that brings family and friends together to express their creativity. After Easter, however, it may seem like you have more eggs than you know what to do with! That's why we've put together out list of unusual things to do with Easter eggs besides eating them or throwing them out!
View the slideshow above to find out unusual uses for eggs, their shells and egg cartons!
Not only can eggs be used for more than one purpose, so can their shells! Don't throw away that cracked eggshell either because you can repurpose it to use around the house. And in case you aren't impressed enough, we've come up with a few fun ways to reuse egg cartons as well!
For more Easter fun check out, The Best Pastel Beauty for Spring from our friends at StyleList and Amazing Easter Cupcake Ideas from our friends at Kitchen Daily!
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Clean Your Pans With Eggshells
Ground up eggshells make a wonderful, nontoxic abrasive for those tough-to-clean pots and pans. Add a little soapy water to the mix and they'll be shining like new in no time!
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Strength Your Pet's Bones
Add eggshells in a 250°F for approximately 30 minutes. Place them them in a plastic bag, seal it, and crush the shells until they are a fine powder. Add this to your dog's food for a great calcium supplement to strengthen bones and teeth.
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Wash Your Face
Clean eggshells and crush in a plastic bag or mortar and pestle. Add the powder to the left over egg white and apply it to the face. After it dries, rinse it off to add a youthful glow to your face.
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Glue Substitute
Egg whites are sticky as they dry, and can easily double as a substitute for Elmer's glue when gluing paper or light cardboard. You can also use egg white instead of glue in your papier-mâché project by mixing with flour, water, and sugar.
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Improve Your Coffee's Taste
Mix egg shells in your coffee grounds for a less bitter brew.
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Compost Material
Eggs can provide ground soil with enough nutrients to make your garden plants healthy. When making compost, mix crushed eggshells with the green component already in your yard's compost pile.
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Egg-Based Shampoo
Eggs are natural moisturizers, which make them a good ingredient for shampoos. To create egg shampoo, mix an egg yolk with olive oil and water. Lather it and use it when it's formed a consistency to your liking.
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Help Irritated Skin
Place an eggshell into a glass of apple cider vinegar and have it soak for a day or two. Dab the mixture on minor skin irritations or itchy skin.
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Keep Slugs Out of Your Garden
Crush up a few eggshells and place a border around your garden plants to keep slugs and snails away from your garden.
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Not only are eggs useful for things beyond the kitchen, but so is the container they come in! Egg cartons can be used for a handful of other things that you would never have imagined! Continue through the gallery to discover what you could be using your egg cartons for.
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Store Spring Bulbs
Styrofoam egg cartons provide the perfect dry, warm, individual compartments for keeping spring bulbs, such as tulips, stored away until spring. Store the egg cartons in a cool, dark place that's not too humid and not too dry.
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Start a Cozy Fire
Fill cardboard egg cartons with dryer lint, and then pour melted wax over the lint (use leftover candle pieces for the melted wax). Then tear apart the sections and use for fire starters in your fireplace (These are also great when you're camping.)
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Store Earrings
Egg carton compartments are perfect for keeping pairs of earrings together. Save one compartment just for those elusive earring backings and you'll never have to dig around for them again.
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Make Extra Ice
Too many guests and not enough ice trays? Skip a trip to the store by using empty egg cartons as ice cube trays in a pinch..
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Store Golf Balls
Love golf, but find it hard to keep track of your golf balls? Try using a egg carton to keep them all in one place. Even better, it's an easy way to organize your golf balls by brand!
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Separate Paint Colors
For crafts, use an egg carton as a paint palette. Squirt the colors into the egg cups and use the flat top section as a mixing palette.
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Plant Seedlings
In the springtime when you want to start seeds inside, fill the egg cups with potting soil, put in your seeds and stick the whole thing in a sunny spot.
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Organize Your Workshop
Tiny bolts, nuts and other fasteners always seem to pile up, and you're always looking for a convenient place to stash them. Egg cartons help keep your flat washers separate from your square washers, so that everything is accessible right when you need it.
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Store Small Ornaments Next Christmas
The individual compartments -- which were made to cushion fragile items -- are too small for most Christmas balls but suitable for smaller ornaments. Plus, the cartons stack easily on top of each other for storage.
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Ship Holiday and Christmas Gifts
Why buy bubble wrap or packing peanuts? Save up your egg cartons and use them to cushion packages for friends and relatives instead.
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