5 tips to get rid of garlic hands
No matter how hard you scrub after chopping garlic or how much soap and water you use: your hands will keep smelling of it. Or rather: stinking of it. No need to worry: with these super tips, you’ll never have to deal with garlic fingers again.
1. Lemon and salt
Mix some lemon juice with salt and rub it onto your (wet) hands. The acid in the lemon neutralizes strong smells and the salt exfoliates. Do you have a cut on your hand or dry skin? Be careful: this lemon-and-salt mixture stings and temporarily removes a protective layer from your hands.
2. Baking powder
Mix water – not too much! – with some baking powder and stir until a thick paste forms. Rub your hands thoroughly with this mixture, leave it on for a minute and then rinse it off with cold water. Baking powder binds the acids found in unpleasant smells, making them less noticeable.
3. Parsley
Do you have fresh parsley in the fridge? Rub a few sprigs vigorously between your hands and fingers. If you also suffer from an unpleasant garlic taste in your mouth: chewing on a parsley stem for a moment helps.
4. Stainless steel
Garlic contains sulfur molecules that stick to your hands while chopping. If you rub your hands over stainless steel, those molecules – and therefore the odor compounds – stick to it. The garlic smell disappears immediately. There are handy stainless-steel ‘soaps’, but rubbing your fingers over a stainless-steel sink works just as well.
5. Toothpaste or mouthwash
The small amount of alcohol in mouthwash causes the pores in your hand to ‘close’, making them stop smelling on their own. The tiny plastic particles in the toothpaste scrub away the dead skin cells on your hands. Both are worth trying.
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