Beauty

39. Hair lightener

Combine some lemon juice and almond oil. You can also use coconut oil. Apply this mixture on your hair before going out in the sun. Lemon juice will lighten it and prevent dry ends.

40. Age spots and freckles

Use a cotton swab to apply the lemon juice. This will help in fading age spots and speckles.

Again, use a cotton swab to apply the lemon juice. This will help you fade age spots and freckles.

41. Brightening moisturizer

Combine a few drops of lemon juice and coconut oil. Use this mixture as a moisturizer to hydrate and clarify your skin.

42. Whiten nails

Combine lemon juice and olive oil. Macerate your nails. Lemon juice will clarify your nails, and the olive oil will make them firm.

43. Dandruff

Gently rub two tablespoons of lemon juice on your scalp and massage it. Rinse with lemon water. Iterate if necessary until the dandruff disappears for good.

44. Acne

Lemon juice acts as a natural astringent. It will help you get rid of acne when applied twice a day. Leave the juice on your skin for 10 minutes and rinse with cool water.

45. Exfoliate your skin

Combine lemon juice, sugar, olive oil and honey into a exfoliating scrub. Use it for both your face and body.

Health

46. Lemon water

It is rich in vitamin C and potassium. Lemon water stimulates digestion and improves the function of your immunity.

47. Sore throat

Lemon has strong anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. Gargle lemon water to relieve sore throat. Drink lemon water to obtain more vitamin C and boost your immunity.

48. Cancer sores

Lemon juice also has antifungal and antibacterial properties. Gargle hot lemon water to stimulate the healing of any canker sores.

49. Skin rashes

Soak a cotton ball in some lemon juice and apply it to rashes, like poison ivy rashes. This will ease your condition.

50. Insect bites

Lemon juice has shown to be quite helpful when it comes to reducing bumps and itching in cases of insect bites.

51. Cough

Add some honey to your warm lemon water to diminish any mucous buildups and relieve cough.

52. Warts

Lemon juice breaks down warts and improves recovery.

Miscellaneous

53. Leather shoe polish

Combine one part of lemon juice and two parts of olive oil. Apply the mixture on your leather shoes and let it work for about 10-15 minutes. Polish using a cloth.

54. Invisible ink

Soak a cotton swab in some lemon juice. Write whatever you like on a piece of paper. Once it dries. Expose the paper on a lamp of light bulb to read whatever you wrote.

55. Jewelry sanitizer

Combine a tablespoon of lemon juice and one and a half cup of water. Use this solution to sanitize earrings or any other jewelry.

56. Insect repellant

Use lemon juice and water to clean floors and deflect roaches and flees. If this does not help you get rid of ants, spray some concentrated lemon juice o the areas where ants gather or you can just place lemon skins near your entryways to deflect insects.

57. Stains on pet fur

If you want to remove pink or red tarnish from the area around your pet’s eyes or mouth, just apply some paste made of baking soda and lemon juice and scrub it into the fur. Let it act for 10 minutes and rinse. Do this carefully, because the paste should not get near your pet’s eyes.

58. Berry stains on hands

Combine cornmeal and lemon juice into a paste and apply it on your hands. Let it work and rinse. This will remove any berry tarnish.

59. Kill weed

Spray some lemon juice on any unwanted weed.

60. Dog and cat repellent

If you are trying to keep your neighbor’s cat away from your home, just apply some lemon skins and coffee grounds on the perimeter. Pets do not like this odor.

Lemon aromatherapy eases stress and anxiety

Use lemon essential oil for your aromatherapy to enjoy the full power of lemons. Essential oil contains high concentrations of active evaporating ingredients of flowers and plants. They are the essence of the plant itself and provide therapeutic benefits in small values. The good substances in essential oils come from plant’s flowers, figs, leaves or bark. When breathed in, they stimulate certain powerful effects. Lemon essential oil provides anti-stress and anti-anxiety effect.

A study involving participants who nuzzled lemon, lavender and ylang-ylang essential oil, showed that this action significantly decreased the function of the sympathetic nerve system.  Aromatherapy massage with lemon, rosemary and peppermint relieves constipation in older people.

Lemon scent relieves sickness and vomiting in pregnant women. You cannot go wrong with using lemons for its vitamin C content and aroma, because it has strong antioxidant and cleansing properties. Use it for aromatherapies or whatever you find it useful for.

Note: You can find pre-squeezed varieties at the market, but freshly squeezed lemon juice is always a better option, as the other varieties lose their vitamin C a lot quicker.

Source: articles.mercola.com

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