Put a toilet seat cover on your face

Redlands Daily Facts Health Section
Staff Writer

Q:You have the craziest ideas for skin care. What wacko hint do you have today?

Mimi:Put a toilet seat cover on your face.

When you are in a public toilet, take a paper seat cover, fold it up, and put it in your purse. During the day when your face gets oily, tear off a piece of the paper seat cover and press it on your face. It will absorb excess oil without disturbing your make-up.

If you want to be tidy, you can take home the seat cover, cut it into squares and put them in a snack size baggie to keep them tidy in your purse.

Another use for a paper seat cover is to mend your broken fingernail. Tear, do not cut, a tiny piece of the paper to fit over the break in the fingernail. You want ragged edges on the paper. Remove your nail polish. Brush on one coat of clear polish. Place the patch on the crack. Make sure that the paper edges are smooth. Allow to dry. Then apply another coat of clear polish. After that is dry, apply one more coat. When all the clear polish is dry, put your colored polish on again.

The paper patch will fortify the nail break until it grows out.

Tea bag paper works well also. Take a new tea bag and tear out a paper patch to mend a broken fingernail. Make a cup of tea with the loose tea. Afterwards you will have tealeaves in your cup to read your fortune with.

Here's a tip for what to do with used tea bags: put them around your flowers, or any plant that needs a little more acid in the soil. Tea changes the pH balance of the soil and make pink hydrangeas blue.

Mimi Barre is the owner of International Day Spa, 325 Cajon St., Redlands. Send your skin care questions to her at MimiB@INTLdayspa.com. She and her estheticians are available for personal consultations, (909) 793-9080.