After having made a recipe, you can often have a bit of lemon left spare. The rest often gets left in a corner of the fridge only for it to go moldy before you have a chance to use it again. However a lemon can have many beneficial uses and it is best to make the most of it whether it is in the kitchen, as a cleaning product or to make beauty products. Here are some simple, handy ways to use the rest of a lemon!
- Grate the skin and make a lovely cake with the zest. You can also put the zest in your tea.
- Rub the lemon onto your nails to strengthen them and make them shinier.
- Put the lemon in a place where you have an ant infestation to make them go away.
- Boil up water with lemon to make a mixture to make bad smells go away in the kitchen. With a stalk of rosemary this will smell even nicer.
- Rub your shower panes full of limescale with half a lemon to make it shine. Dry with a microfiber cloth.
- Seeing as you are in the bathroom you might as well do the taps as well!
- Make your fridge smell fresh with the rest of your lemon.
- Put the lemon into a bowl of water and put it into the microwave for a few minutes. The vapor that is released by the lemon water will help to clean your microwave without any effort. All you’ll need to do is give a little wipe with your sponge!
- If you have half a lemon put grains of salt onto your wooden chopping board and take your lemon and rub. Rinse your board and it will be like it is as good as new.
- Cut up the rest of the lemon and make ice cubes by putting them into the freezer!
- Use the rest of the lemon to shine up objects made of stainless steel, copper or even steel. It is magic!