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1. Perfume your palms

Cutting onions, cleaning fish, or handling garlic can leave a strong odor on your hands. Wash them with toothpaste to remove the smell.

2. Clean your Jewelry

Use a soft toothbrush with a tiny amount of toothpaste to brush dull metal jewelry, then rinse and polish it to a shine with a soft cloth. Soak seriously grungy metal in a cup of water with dissolved toothpaste. Don't use it to get a pearly white finish on actual pearls—toothpaste damages the surface.

3. Put paste on a damp sponge to wipe crayon off painted walls

4. Defog goggles

The mild abrasive in toothpaste is perfect for removing the crud that causes your sporty eyewear to fog up. As a preventative measure, just lightly rub toothpaste inside a diving mask, motorcycle goggles, or on a hockey helmet face guard. Wipe and rinse the surface clean. (Note: YMMV—toothpaste can remove special coatings like anti-glare treatments.)

5. Clear zits

Cover pimples with a dab of toothpaste before you hit the sack, then wash your face clean in the morning. This works for bug bites and bee stings too—just remove the stinger first. The paste will dry out and shrink your offending blemishes.

6. Do your nails

Toothpaste works on toenails and fingernails like it does on teeth. Clean your nails with a toothbrush and paste to make them strong and shiny.

7. De-funk a bottle

Wash baby bottles with toothpaste and a bottle scrubber, making sure to rinse them very well with water. The paste will get rid of that nauseating sour milk smell.

8. Remove soap scum

Rub a glass shower door with a damp sponge and a squirt of toothpaste. For heavy scum and soap stains, let the toothpaste sit on the door for several minutes before rinsing it off.

9. Polish chrome faucet fixtures

10. Hide drink rings

If you aren't fanatical about putting coasters under your drinks, then you probably have water rings on your wooden furniture. Rub them off with toothpaste and a soft cloth.

11. Remove stains

Scrub a carpet stain with toothpaste on an abrasive brush, then rinse with water. Tough stains require a couple of scrubbings. Toothpaste can also remove stains in cotton clothes, but it doesn't work for all types of fabric.

12. Hole filler from nails and such on walls. Works just as well as putty for the small holes (assuming you use basic paste and not the gell kind)

(05-07-2012 10:28 AM)MemTigerFan Wrote: [ -> ]12. Hole filler from nails and such on walls. Works just as well as putty for the small holes (assuming you use basic paste and not the gell kind)

People do that who are leaving an apartment. It's not a long term solution. That's ghetto as hell...


{Waits for someone to make a thread about things being ghetto in the R&P section and is is wrong}

If this was on the UAB board then they would have to google toothpaste first.

(05-07-2012 10:19 AM)ByrdDogX Wrote: [ -> ]4. Defog goggles

The mild abrasive in toothpaste is perfect for removing the crud that causes your sporty eyewear to fog up. As a preventative measure, just lightly rub toothpaste inside a diving mask, motorcycle goggles, or on a hockey helmet face guard. Wipe and rinse the surface clean. (Note: YMMV—toothpaste can remove special coatings like anti-glare treatments.)

Liquid soap can do this too. I used to do that on my racquetball goggles until I ponied up the dough for prescription ones with anti-fog coating...now, I don't get to play much anymore.

(05-07-2012 04:15 PM)homefry20 Wrote: [ -> ]If this was on the UAB board then they would have to google toothpaste first.

If it was on the UAB board we would be talking about Fixodent....not toothpaste.

Toothpaste mixed with pancake batter will create a mortar looking substance good for covering holes in the wall.

Gets minor scratches out of your marble tub and shower stall.

(05-07-2012 04:15 PM)homefry20 Wrote: [ -> ]If this was on the UAB board then they would have to google toothpaste first.

Sounds very similar to a typical WVU board.

Toothpaste was invented at UT. If invented anywhere else, it would be called "teethpaste".