20 Other Amazing Uses for Beer and Vodka
by Sher D Fly on Jul 22, 2007 with 25 Comments
Excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks can be hazardous to one’s health. Instead, put your beer and vodka for other household or emergency uses. You’ll be amazed of what they can do…
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Clean Jewelery
Put a few drops of vodka onto a soft cloth and wipe your jewelery gently. You can also dunk your diamond ring into a small glass of vodka for 2 minutes and wipe it dry until you can see the sparkle. However, you can only do this for jewelery with crystallized gemstones like diamond and emerald. Otherwise the alcohol will damage the gemstone. For gold jewelery minus gemstones, you can pour some beer onto a soft cloth and wipe it gently to dry. Beer is good for polishing solid gold to get the gold shine.
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Clean Glass
Pour a few drops of vodka onto a soft cloth and wipe glasses or your eyeglasses for cleaner and clearer viewing.
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Remove Stains
Pour some vodka or beer onto the stains (on cloth or on carpet) and gently scrub the area with a brush to remove the stain. Then, blot the area with some water until it is clean.
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Promote Healthy and Lushes Hair
For healthy and lushes hair, try this at home. Mix 15ml of beer into 70ml of warm water. Right after you shampoo your hair, rub the mixture gently to your hair and rinse it off.
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Insect Repellent
Put some vodka into a spray bottle. Spray bugs such as wasps, mosquitoes, ants or bees to keep them away.
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Clean Furniture
Put some beer onto a soft cloth and gently wipe your furniture made of wood to clean them up.
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Emergency Disinfectant
For minor cuts or wounds, blot the area with a cotton wool soaked in vodka to disinfect the said area. For skin affected by poison ivy, just pour the infected area with some vodka. You can also use vodka to disinfect and relieve the pain from jellyfish sting.
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Remove Foot Odor
Wash your feet with vodka and clean them up with some soap and water. After you dry your feet, pour some talcum powder onto your feet to remove odour. Do this often until the foot odour is totally removed.
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Keep Flowers Fresh
Just add a few drops of vodka together with a teaspoon of sugar into the water in your flower vase to keep your fresh flowers fresh for a longer time. However, don’t forget to change the water regularly, together with the fresh drops of vodka and sugar.
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Disinfectant Wash
To sanitize your clothes, just put a few drops of vodka into some warm water, mixed together with some detergent. Soak your clothes in the solution for half an hour. Then, wash the clothes normally in water.
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Kill Weeds
Put about 30ml of vodka, a cup of plain water and a few drops of liquid dish soap and mix the solution together. Put the solution into a spray bottle. Just spray onto the weeds in your garden or yard when there is sunlight. This is important so that the solution can react in the heat of the sun to kill off the weeds.
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Relieve Toothache
Soak a cotton wool with some vodka and dry the excess liquid. Put the cotton wool onto the affected area and bite through the said cotton wool to temporarily relieve the pain.
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Relieve Sprains and Strains
Put half a cup of vodka and half a cup of plain water into a Ziploc. Freeze it. You can apply the cold pack onto the affected areas to relieve sprains, body aches or strains around your eyes.
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Remove Adhesive Bandage
Pour some vodka onto the adhesive bandage and you will find it easier to remove the bandage minus the pain.
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Clean Bathroom
Since vodka also contains alcohol, it can be used to clean up and sanitize your bathroom tub and washing basin. Just pour some vodka over your washing basin and bath tub and wait for several minutes before you scrub them with a brush. This is an easy way to remove mold and mildew.
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Prevent Blades From Rusting
Just soak your used razor blades (which you plan to reuse) into a glass of vodka to sterilize the blades and prevent them from rusting.
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Fertilizer
I am not sure whether this is true but according to a friend of mine, you can also use beer to fertilize your plants, as beer contains nutrients needed by plants. Just pour some beer around the plants occasionally. Please remember not to do this excessively or you will kill your plants instead.
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Trap Slimy Pests
In order to trap snails that damage your plants, find a container without a lid. You can even use an empty can with the top removed. Bury this container inside the earth with the top left opened (where the snails are often seen). Pour about half a can of beer into the container and leave it overnight. The snails will be attracted to the smell of beer. You will find these snails drowned inside the container, (and probably they are also drunk) the next day.
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Clean Brushes
Soak either your toothbrush or hair brush into a glass of vodka for several minutes to disinfect the brush fiber.
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Relieve Fever
Soak a clean face towel inside a solution of half a cup of vodka plus half a cup of water. Drain the excessive liquid and wipe the towel onto your chest and on your back. I was told that this method is used by the Russians to relieve fever.
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wot | Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
wtf is “lushes hair”?
this list is half bunk
Dani | Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
use #21… Drink it. lol, nice article.
Dani | Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
By the way, it’s “luscious”, not “lushes”.
ADrinker | Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
Weed killer AND fertilizer?
Zanksta | Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
You guys do know that the Russians believe vodka to have special/ magical powers. true story.
WOBB | Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
It would be lushes if you drink half the bottle before putting a bit in your hair.
Sher D Fly | Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
Apologies for the typo error. It should have been “luscious”. Thank you Dani.
Sher D Fly | Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
Yeah, the solution with vodka mixture can be used to kill weeds. On the other hand, flat beers are used by some to fertilize plants.
Acid Lullaby | Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
or you could simply substitute Rubbing Alcohol for the Vodka – it would do a much better job in most cases I think. Although I have to say that the tooth ache bit works (except I never used wool, I simply took a swallow into my mouth and let the tooth soak for a bit and swallowed when I was done – the swallowing is the best part of the remedy ;.
Everbody | Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
I tried most of these, don’t do it! The vodka and beer taste TERRIBLE after soaking your feet, cleaning your furniture, soaking your brushes!
rational guy | Jul 22, 2007 | Reply
Considering Vodka on a per oz basis is much more expensive than things like silver polish and reusable blue cold packs. 25oz of conditioner $15, 750ml cheap vodka $10 (25oz is about 750ml). For $5 more, your hair will smell of fruit or flowers rather than smelling like a hobo. To prove the point though bathroom cleanser $4 for 32oz. Also I am guessing the conditioner will do a better job. Beer for slugs though is an excellent and cheap remedy.
Other things vodka can substituted for:
rocket fuel,
sodium pentathol – truth serum
anal douche – you will get drunk and have a clean rectum
beer – because you just poured your beer in the slug trap and now how are you going to get drunk?
Mythbusters | Jul 23, 2007 | Reply
Most of these have already been de-bunked on Mythbusters.
Joe | Jul 23, 2007 | Reply
Actually a small portion of these have been confirmed by mythbusters, not debunked. Vodka really does help at making your feet smell better.
Me | Jul 23, 2007 | Reply
What kind of beer? Darker beer? Lighter beer? Am I using Guiness or Pabst? Coors or Killians?
Logic | Jul 23, 2007 | Reply
And be sure to tell the arresting officer the reason you reek of alcohol is this list.
twiggy | Jul 23, 2007 | Reply
why not use beer and vodka for what it’s intended…drinking, and you won’t really care about fixing any of the problems in the list!
.. | Jul 28, 2007 | Reply
I hate how these people are ripping off of the origional articles that made it big.
bald | Jul 28, 2007 | Reply
Who do I contact to sue? I did the vodka thing with my hair and it all fell out! Minus bits around my ears. I lost my job, and my wife just left me. Now all I have left is 31 cases of beer – guess i will drink my sorrows away…
Hr | Jul 28, 2007 | Reply
I though the article only mentioned abt the use of beer for hair, NOT vodka for hair…errr…??
logicz | Aug 3, 2007 | Reply
Firstly, kudos to the writer as it is an interesting article. Secondly, I dnt think its related to any articles out there. These are all common remedies using beers by the English/Irish and the “magical” folk remedies using vodka by Russians.
scratches on my Tag | Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
after reading this, i got curious so i tried cleaning my watch with vodka. some of the scratches disappeared and it sparkled.
scorpiolad | Nov 3, 2007 | Reply
As insect repellant? That’s new to me
jogger | Apr 4, 2008 | Reply
You people are rude!
limited | Jul 10, 2008 | Reply
All I have is moonshine. Will that clean my diamonds?
Donna C, WA State | Oct 2, 2008 | Reply
My hubby is an AVID beer drinker, when he falls asleep at night and leaves a half of beer full, I take it the next morning and “water” my hanging Philodendron, she loves it, its the fastest growing and super healthy houseplant I have.