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Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures: 1,150 Ways to Prevent and Cure Common Ailments with Brand-Name Products

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Did you know that you can stop sunburn pain by adding Cheerios to your bathwater (please don't recycle!)? Also, stop a shaving nick or canker sore in it's tracks with Alum (a spice by McCormick). These and other bizzare but useful tips can be found in this new book by Joey Green, author of "Polish Your Furniture With Panty Hose" and "Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz". Learn how, in a pinch, you can shave with Jif peanut butter, or use a credit card to scrape your tongue when out in public and plagued with hallitosis. Gatorade can cure a headache? You bet. Then, there are some no-brainers in here (e.g. use a Q-Tip as a substitute eye shadow applicator, shrink a zit with toothpaste- all us 80's girls know this one! But, I had no idea toothpaste could reduce redness and speed the healing of a hickey!)If you love waterproof mascara, but hate removing it, simply keep Johnson's baby Shampoo on hand and remove mascara with a small amount of it on a cottonball. This book also has "Strange Facts" at the end of each chapter; did you know Abe Lincoln's Mother died from drinking the milk of a cow that ate poisonous mushrooms? The phrase "cold shoulder" originated in the Middle Ages when Europeans fed unwanted guests leftover beef shoulder to get them to leave. If for no other reason, get this book and find out how using McCormick food coloring can help you clean your teeth better. A fun book, great to give as a gift.

I had seen an ad about this book with some of the remedies listed. I went and bought it just to see what I could find in there. As I started reading it, I saw ones my MOM used.

Say you're cooking and some grease gets on you, try Colgate toothpaste(regular). Canada Dry Ginger Ale is great for upset stomach (generic brand works just as well) for clearing up congestion. There were quite a few old family remedies in this book that I've used before. The author also lists interesting facts about the companies whose products he lists. He also explains in many of the remedies why they work.

The book is really helpful, but don't feel you can only use the brand names he lists. For example, the one about using Canada Dry Ginger Ale - I've used generic brands for years and you will get the same result. The Colgate one - I've used gel types and that works too. I'll probably be going through this book again and again. It's a nice reference for the price :)

I recently picked up another copy for a relative. Her kids found the book and SHE didn't see it again for a week. I didn't realize the kids would be so fascinated with the book. It's really a great way to have kids explore how things work. Again, a great reference.

Joey Green has written several books detailing the most commonplace items in your kitchen, garden, and so forth that you can use for remedies in you health, home repair, and so forth. This book, along the same genre, is not exception. Many of us don't realize what powerful chemicals already lie in many household goods that we possess. This book details some of the most commonplace items such as soap, cooking oil, and other things to repair and restore household items such scratched wooden tables, Milk of Magnesia for acne, etc. Kudos to Joey Green for this book.

This book is great! A friend of mine was reading this book at work and I looked at it and was instantly intriged. I had to get my own. So I went to Amazon and got one. I use it when I get sick mostly. I've had family and friends call me and ask how to I get rid of this cold, flu, sore throat and etc. I tell them give me a sec, I get the book and read to them. They say its great too. It really has come in handy and saved me tons of money, because I don't have to go to the doctor for everything. Definately think everyone should own a copy OR get a friend to buy it. LOL

mazing kitchen cures. I think it's a great book. It has helped my son with his son as he cant' afford a doctor visit every time the child gets a minor illness. like a cold. The suggestions really work.

This is the first time I've seen this author. I was at the library and picked this up. I found this to be an interesting book that provides solutions for cleaning and remedies for common health ailments using standard household items.

Examples include: Soak a sponge with Coca Cola and scrub to remove rust stains from a sink or tub; Remove fingernail polish without nail polish remover by rubbing your nails with a Bounce dryer sheet; Kill wasps and bees by spraying them with 409 All Purpose Cleaner (they drop to the ground instantly and the liquid kills them within seconds). This book also includes occassional pages of fascinating history on some of the products suggested in the book, i.e. - Dial Soap, Budweiser, Life Savers.

There were so many interesting remedies and cleaning solutions that I had to buy the book from Amazon. I am really interested in trying more of the solutions. I question some of the "remedies." For instance, some of the burn treatments, like applying grape jelly or colgate toothpaste don't seem medically sound. I would definitely use common sense in using some of the suggestions in the book and I would defnitely not attempt to try something that may make a situation worse, like a burn treatment.

Overall, a fascinating book that may be helpful with many cleaning and health remedies, but take some of the suggestions with a grain of salt.

haven't read the whole book, skimmed through it. it's a good reference book to have around the house. lots of quirky things to use to cure things or to even clean with that you would've never thought to use before.

It's quirky, with some odd uses for everyday things, that we wouldn't have thought to use.
Like Pepto Bismol for eczema. Or peroxide to get rid of warts.
Who knew Vodka wasn't just for drinking. Or more uses for baking soda then you knew before.
Give it a read. Have fun with it.

Joey Green combines sublime entertainment, really useful information and totally wacko stuff in one package. This is one of those reference books that no household should be without and no human should read without many grains of salt which will need to be taken individually at frequent intervals:

I learned:

Page 207: Applying Colgate Toothpaste to a leech on your skin dries the creature, causing it to release its grip and fall off.

This is awesome stuff--before wading in the leech-infested waters of some tropical paradise, bring plenty of toothpaste!

This comes from the section on INSECT BITES and I've used enough of these remedies to believe that the rest probably have merit. My favorite is baking soda, but the steak sauce, vinegar, tea bags and curry powder also work.

Sometimes the brand names cited are like a time capsule from a previous America. For example, under MEMORY LOSS, the author suggests: "Forster Clothes Pins. Clip reminder notes to the sun visor in your car with a Forster Clothes Pin."

Does anyone alive know what those were and most importantly, remember where they put them?

The hangover remedies begin on page 182 and include Alka-Seltzer. OMG, is this product placement or what? But the rest of the page has chicken soup, tomato juice, Gatorade, chocolate, coffee, crackers and honey, and Tang -- told you this book was like a time capsule. Brand names are cited in the book, but I bet the generic equivalents would work just as well.

By the way, Gatorade is also cited under Chapped Lips--apparently as a preventive. The Chapped Lip Chapter is also horrifying in the suggestion that one should rub Alberto VO5 Conditioning on the lips. Eventually, at the bottom of the author's list he suggests using Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, noting "It works just like ChapStick." I merely note in passing that solving chapped lips by putting on a cheap commercial product like ChapStick is well within the average human's capacity but it takes real genius to recommend putting hair conditioner on your lips.

On the other hand, the information under ICE PACKS is invaluable. I have not yet used Jello and a Ziploc bag to make an ice pack for a future emergency but the instructions are strangely compelling and I may yield to the temptation at any time now.

All kidding aside, there's a great index in the back of the book where you can see all the conditions that a specific product is recommended to treat. The list under Arm & Hammer baking soda is long indeed. But I will cite the index listing for Bud beer...it is pure poetry:

Budweiser beer
--as hair shampoo, 276
--as hair spray, 177
--history of, 115
--as insecticide, 35
--for treating dry hair, 112

Sigh. Highly recommended.

I have used this book MULTIPLE times and it's pretty amazing. The baking soda for canker sores works like a charm
and it's a great book to have on hand. Plus you probably have most of the items they speak about in the book!