Eleven More Uses for Butter

Butter has many more uses than just for sandwiches and sauteing.

• If you have anything sticky on your hands, like glue, tar, or paint, rub with butter, then wash with soap and water.
• Gum in hair comes off easier if rubbed with butter.
• Tree sap on a car comes off easier if rubbed with butter before washing.
• Cutting things like marshmallows, pies, toffee, dates is easier if you slice the knife through butter first so it does not stick.
• Butter works like oil to shine shoes, baseball gloves, etc. Just put some on a cotton swab and rub in.
• Large pills can go down a bit easier if rubbed with a bit of butter before swallowing.
• Butter works like expensive skin oils to soften cuticles and nails and to soften dry skin. it can also be used in a pinch to replace shaving lotion.
• Rubbing butter on hard cheese helps keep down mold if you rub it on the cut edge before wrapping.
• Dingy dusty holiday candles can be brought back to life by rubbing with butter. It cleans and brings back the shine.
• Difficult to remove rings slide off easy if you apply butter first.
• After handling and cleaning fish, rub some butter on your hands before washing with soap and water to remove the smell. (Butter is not good to rub on burns, use an ice cube instead.)