Ever tried baking soda for cleaning your clothes?

Baking soda is great for cleaning a lot of things the green way, teeth, removing of older stains and also for cleaning clothes.

As you all remember I posted a blog about some of second hand zip up tops so far (see below).

The blue one was immaculate but the beige had some old dirt stains (like a grey veil) on the cuffs and collar from wearing over the years.

I did of course wash all my second hand clothes before wearing them, but unfortunately not all stains vanished.

I took a bowl, big enough to allow the parts I want to soak to cover with water when dipping them in and poured a good bit of baking soda in to the water too.

Let it soak over a night and the stain should be gone.

It also brilliantly works on stained and lime-scaled kettles, tea pots, etc.

Below you find a link with more tips to cleaning with baking powder.

Please click here to get to '7 uses for baking soda' by Sarah Aguirre.

Happy cleaning guys :-)

Thanks,

         Carsten

Problems with your zip on your jacked, boots, trousers,...

it does get stuck and doesn't zip as easy or never did.

I have a great simple tip that works on metal and plastic zips

All you need candle wax!

Here are some photos I prepared to demonstrate.

stubborn zip ;-/

a simple tea light

rub the wax on to the zip

now open and close it a few times and should slide up and down easily

Thanks,

        Carsten

Another handy tool I found 

Size Charts

Download those tables to your smart phone or android and you have them always with you, no matter where you go shopping in the world ;-)

For Men

For Women

Thanks,

       Carsten

Just found these charts on the net. Thought they might come handy ;-)

Being aware of your body shape and of your best assets makes shopping and dressing much easier.

Enhance your best bits and the parts we don't like that much fall automatically into the background.

Pear: Wider hips and small shoulders; broaden your shoulders

Apple: Hips and shoulders are almost same width; bring in your waist and broaden your shoulders a bit

Banana: bring in your waist and try to enhance your shoulders and hips a bit...

                                                                                  Girls and ladies, don't forget to get professionally fitted for bras.

Not just for the proportions also for your comfort and health!!!!

Here a less fruity chart for us guys to get to know our shapes better too.

Trapezium: Upper body larger than lower body, but well proportioned.

Inverted Triangle: Upper Body significantly larger than lower body.

Triangle: Upper body smaller than lower body. Sloping shoulders.

Rectangle: Little difference between upper and lower body. Some weight in mid-section.

Oval: Large body with curved mid-section.

Guys and lassies, make sure your underwear is not too tight or too loose either.

Too tight or too wide can be bad for your health as well.

Choose underwear accordingly to your activity, like cycling, the gym or just going out!!!

As you all know, this also involves our skin tone, eye color and hair color.

Choose colors which enhance your eye color and hair color.

Your body gives you actually the color pallet for your base colors that suit you best when choosing an outfit.

So next time before you go shopping just check your colors and be aware of your body shape shape.

Thank,

      Carsten