So since I've been successfully using baking soda and vinegar... (my hair is MUCH thicker). Here are a few of my favorite uses that I've read.
Prolong the life of flowers in a vase. Add two
tablespoons of vinegar plus three
tablespoons of sugar per quart of warm water.
Stems should be in three to four inches of water.
Kill weeds. Spray full strength on growth until
plants have starved.
Eliminate animal urine stains from carpet. Blot
up urine with a soft cloth, flush several times
with lukewarm water, then apply a mixture of equal
parts vinegar and cool water. Blot up, rinse,
and let dry.
Keep away fleas and mange. Add a little vinegar to
your pet's drinking water.
Relieve itching by using a cotton ball to dab
mosquito and other bug bites with Vinegar straight
from the bottle.
Fight dandruff, by rinsing with vinegar and
2 cups of warm water, after shampooing.
Relieve arthritis. Before each meal, drink a
glass of water containing two teaspoons
Apple Cider Vinegar.
Give it at least three weeks to start working.
Relieve cough by mixing one-half cup Apple Cider
Vinegar, one-half cup water, one teaspoon cayenne
pepper, and four teaspoons honey.
Take one tablespoon when cough acts up.
Take another tablespoon at bedtime.
Soothe a sore throat. Put a teaspoon of vinegar
in a glass of water. Gargle, then swallow.
Cure for colds. Mix one-quarter cup Apple Cider
Vinegar with one-quarter cup honey.
Take one tablespoon six to eight times daily.
Brighten fabric colors. Add a 1/2 cup vinegar
to the rinse cycle.
Remove tough stains. Gently rub on fruit, jam,
mustard, coffee, tea. Then wash as usual.
Deodorant and anti-perspirants stains may be
removed from clothing by lightly rubbing with
distilled vinegar and laundering as usual.
When dyeing fabric, add a cup full of distilled
vinegar to the last rinse to set the color.
Marinating meat in vinegar kills bacteria and
tenderizes the meat. Use one-quarter cup
vinegar for a two to three pound roast, marinate
overnight, then cook without draining or
rinsing the meat.
Add herbs to the vinegar when marinating as desired.
Make buttermilk. Add a tablespoon of vinegar to a
cup of milk and let it stand 5 minutes to thicken.
Firm up gelatin by adding a teaspoon of vinegar
for every box of gelatin used. To keep those
molded desserts from sagging in the summer heat.
Prepare fluffier rice by adding a teaspoon of
vinegar to the water when it boils.
Patent leather will shine better if wiped with a
soft cloth which has been moisten with distilled
vinegar.
