In the Medicine Cabinet

Control your dandruff

To give your dandruff the brush-off, follow up each shampoo with a rinse of 2 cups apple cider vinegar mixed with 2 cups cold water. You can also fight dandruff by applying 3 tablespoons vinegar onto your hair and massaging into your scalp before you shampoo. Wait a few minutes, then rinse it out and wash as usual.

Condition your hair

Want to put the life back into your limp or damaged hair? You can whip up a terrific hair conditioner by combining 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar with 2 tablespoons olive oil and 3 egg whites. Rub the mixture into your hair, then keep it covered for 30 minutes using plastic wrap or a shower cap. When time's up, shampoo and rinse as usual.

Protect blond hair from chlorine

Keep your golden locks from turning green in a chlorinated pool by rubbing 1/4 cup cider vinegar into your hair and letting it set for 15 minutes before diving in.

Apply as antiperspirant

Why not put the deodorizing power of vinegar to use where it matters most? That's right, you don't need a roll-on or spray to keep your underarms smelling fresh. Instead, splash a little white vinegar under each arm in the morning, and let it dry. In addition to combating perspiration odor, this method also does away with those deodorant stains on your garments.

Soak away aching muscles

Got a sore back, a strained tendon in your shoulder or calf, or maybe you're just feeling generally rundown? Adding 2 cups apple cider vinegar to your bathwater is a great way to soothe away your aches and pains, or to simply to take the edge off a stressful day. Adding a few drops of peppermint oil to your bath can lend an able assist as well.

Freshen your breath

After you consume a fair portion of garlic or onions, a quick and easy way to sweeten your breath is to rinse your mouth with a solution made by dissolving 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar and 1 teaspoon salt in a glass of warm water.

Ease sunburn and itching

You can cool a bad sunburn by gently dabbin溅湿喷洒 the area with a cotton ball or soft cloth saturated浸透的湿润的 with white or cider vinegar. （This treatment is especially effective if it's applied before the burn starts to sting刺疼， 使苦闷。） The same technique works to instantly stop the itch of mosquito and other insect bites, as well as the rashes皮疹 caused by exposure to poison ivy or poison oak.

Banish bruises

If you or someone you care about has a nasty fall, you can speed healing and prevent black-and-blue marks by soaking a piece of cotton gauze in white or apple cider vinegar and leaving it on the injured area for one hour.

Soothe a sore throat

Here are three ways that you can make a sore throat feel better:

* If your throat is left raw by a bad cough, or even a speaking or singing engagement, you'll find fast relief by gargling with 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar and 1 teaspoon salt dissolved in a glass of warm water; use several times a day if needed.

* For sore throats associated with a cold or flu, combine 1/4 cup cider vinegar and 1/4 cup honey and take 1 tablespoon every four hours.

* To soothe both a cough and a sore throat, mix 1/2 cup vinegar, 1/2 cup water, 4 teaspoons honey, and 1 teaspoon hot sauce. Swallow 1 tablespoon four or five times daily, including one before bedtime. Warning: Children under one year old should never be given honey.

Breathe easier

Adding 1/4 cup white vinegar to the water in your hot-steam vaporizer can help ease congestion caused by a chest cold or sinus infection. It can also be good for your vaporizer: The vinegar will clear away any mineral deposits in the water tubes resulting from the use of hard water. Note: Check with the manufacturer before adding vinegar to a cool-mist vaporizer.

Treat an active cold sore

The only thing worse than a bad cold is a bad cold sore. Fortunately, you can usually dry up a cold sore in short order by dabbing it with a cotton ball saturated in white vinegar three times a day. The vinegar will quickly soothe the pain and swelling.

Make a poultice for corns and calluses

Here's an old-fashioned, time-proven method to treat corns and calluses: Saturate a piece of white or stale bread with 1/4 cup white vinegar. Let the bread soak in the vinegar for 30 minutes, then break off a piece big enough to completely cover the corn. Keep the poultice in place with gauze or adhesive tape, and leave it on overnight. The next morning, the hard, callused skin will be dissolved, and the corn should be easy to remove. Older, thicker calluses may require several treatments.

Get the jump on athlete's foot

A bad case of athlete's foot can drive you hopping mad. But you can often quell the infection, and quickly ease the itching, by rinsing your feet three or four times a day for a few days with undiluted apple cider vinegar. As an added precaution, soak your socks or stockings in a mixture of 1 part vinegar and 4 parts water for 30 minutes before laundering them.

Pamper your skin

Using vinegar as a skin toner dates back to the time of Helen of Troy. And it's just as effective today. After you wash your face, mix 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar with 2 cups water as a finishing rinse to cleanse and tighten your skin. You can also make your own facial treatment by mixing 1/4 cup cider vinegar with 1/4 cup water. Gently apply the solution to your face and let it dry.

Say good-bye to age or sun spots

Before you take any drastic measures to remove or cover up those brown spots on your skin caused by overexposure to the sun or hormonal changes, give vinegar a try. Simply pour some full-strength apple cider vinegar onto a cotton ball and apply it to the spots for 10 minutes at least twice a day. The spots should fade or disappear within a few weeks.

Soften your cuticles

You can soften the cuticles on your fingers and toes before manicuring them by soaking your digits in a bowl of undiluted white vinegar for five minutes.

Make nail polish last longer

Your nail polish will have a longer life expectancy if you first dampen your nails with some vinegar on a cotton ball and let it dry before applying your favorite polish.

Clean your eyeglasses

When it's more difficult to see with your glasses on than it is with them off, it's a clear indication that they're in need of a good cleaning. Applying a few drops of white vinegar to your glass lenses and wiping them with a soft cloth will easily remove dirt, sweat, and fingerprints, and leave them spotless. Don't use vinegar on plastic lenses, however.

Treat a jellyfish or bee sting

A jellyfish can pack a nasty sting. If you have an encounter with one, pouring some undiluted vinegar on the sting will take away the pain in no time, and let you scrape out the stinger with a plastic credit card. The same treatment can also be used to treat bee stings. But using vinegar on stings inflicted by the jellyfish's cousin the Portuguese man-of-war is now discouraged because vinegar may actually increase the amount of toxin released under the skin. Warning: If you have difficulty breathing or the sting area becomes inflamed and swollen, get medical attention at once; you could be having an allergic reaction.

In the Bathroom

Wash mildew from shower curtains

Clean those ugly mildew stains off your plastic shower curtain by putting it and a couple of soiled towels in your washing machine. Add 1/2 cup laundry detergent and 1/2 cup baking soda to the load, and wash it in warm water on your machine's regular cycle. Add 1 cup white vinegar to the first rinse. Before the machine goes into the spin cycle, remove the curtain and let it hang-dry.

Shine ceramic tiles

If soap scum or water spots have dulled the ceramic tiles around your sink or bath, bring back the brightness by scrubbing them with 1/2 cup white vinegar, 1/2 cup ammonia, and 1/4 cup borax mixed in 1 gallon （3.7 liters） warm water. Rinse well with cool water and let air-dry.

Whiten your grout

Has the grout between the tiles of your shower or bathtub enclosure become stained or discolored? Restore it to its original shade of white by using a toothbrush dipped in undiluted white vinegar to scrub away the dinginess.

Clean sinks and bathtubs

Put the shine back in your porcelain sinks and bathtubs by giving them a good scrubbing with full-strength white vinegar, followed by a rinse of clean cold water. To remove hard-water stains from your tub, pour in 3 cups white vinegar under running hot tap water. Let the tub fill up over the stains and allow it to soak for four hours. When the water drains out, you should be able to easily scrub off the stains.

Shine up your shower doors

To leave your glass shower doors sparkling clean -- and to remove all of those annoying water spots -- wipe them down with a cloth dipped in a solution of 1/2 cup white vinegar, 1 cup ammonia, and 1/4 cup baking soda mixed in 1 gallon （3.7 liters） warm water.

Disinfect shower door tracks

Use vinegar to remove accumulated dirt and grime from the tracks of your shower doors. Fill the tracks with about 2 cups full-strength white vinegar and let it sit for three to five hours. （If the tracks are really dirty, heat the vinegar in a glass container for 30 seconds in your microwave first.） Then pour some hot water over the track to flush away the gunk. You may need to use a small scrub brush, or even a recycled toothbrush, to get up tough stains.

Remove mineral deposits from showerheads

Wash away blockages and mineral deposits from removable showerheads by placing them in 1 quart （1 liter） boiling water with 1/2 cup distilled vinegar for 10 minutes （use hot, not boiling, liquid for plastic showerheads）. When you remove it from the solution, the obstructions should be gone. If you have a nonremovable showerhead, fill a small plastic bag half full with vinegar and tape it over the fixture. Let it sit for about 1 hour, then remove the bag and wipe off any remaining vinegar from the showerhead.

Wipe down bathroom fixtures

Don't stop at the shower when you're cleaning with vinegar! Pour a bit of undiluted white vinegar onto a soft cloth and use it to wipe your chrome faucets, towel racks, bathroom mirrors, doorknobs, and such. It'll leave them gleaming.

Fight mold and mildew

To remove and inhibit bathroom mold and mildew, pour a solution of 3 tablespoons white vinegar, 1 teaspoon borax, and 2 cups hot water into a clean, recycled spray bottle and give it a few good shakes. Then spray the mixture on painted surfaces, tiles, windows, or wherever you see mold or mildew spots. Use a soft scrub brush to work the solution into the stains or just let it soak in.

Disinfect toilet bowls

Want an easy way to keep your toilet looking and smelling clean? Pour 2 cups white vinegar into the bowl and let the solution soak overnight before flushing. Including this vinegar soak in your weekly cleaning regimen will also help keep away those ugly water rings that typically appear just above the water level.

Clean your toothbrush holder

Get the grime, bacteria, and caked-on toothpaste drippings out of the grooves of your bathroom toothbrush holder by cleaning the openings with cotton swabs moistened with white vinegar.

Wash out your rinse cup

If several people in your home use the same rinse cup after brushing their teeth, give it a weekly cleaning by filling it with equal parts water and white vinegar, or just full-strength vinegar, and let it sit overnight. Rinse thoroughly with cold water before using.

医药箱中必备

控制头皮屑

按照下面的方法去做，就可以告别头皮屑：在洗发水里混合2杯苹果醋和2杯冷水，然后进行进行漂洗。也可以这样来摆脱头皮屑：用洗发水之前，将3大汤匙醋涂抹在头发上，按摩头皮。几分钟后，漂洗掉醋，像往常一样冲洗头发就可以了。

调适头发

想要头发受损还是希望变回头发般顺滑的生活？由一茶匙的苹果醋、二大汤匙的橄榄油、三个鸡蛋清配出的护发素，效果让人惊奇。将该护发素涂抹到头发上，用塑料袋或浴帽包裹，三十分钟后，正常冲洗掉就可以了。

避免金色头发被氯水漂白

在头发上涂搽四分之一杯的苹果醋，保持十五分钟后清洗掉，可以避免金色发素在氯水漂白池中变绿。

应用于止汗药

为什么不将带醋的除臭剂用于最有效的地方呢？简而言之，不需要除臭剂或喷雾去保持腋下没有异味，而只需要早上在腋下喷点白醋，让它自然晾干就可以了。另外，除汗味的方法也适用于去除衣服上的污点。

在醋里浸泡可消除肌肉酸痛

有没有感觉到过背痛，肩膀或者小腿肌腱紧张，抑或只是疲弱无力呢？在浴缸里加放两杯的苹果醋是一个减缓酸痛的好方法，也可能会完全减弱一天的压力。沐浴时，加放几滴薄荷油也可缓解疲劳。

使呼吸清新

当吃了蒜或洋葱时，有一个简便快捷的清新呼吸的方法：用溶解两大汤匙苹果醋和一茶匙盐的温水漱口。

缓解晒伤和骚痒

用浸透白醋或者苹果醋的棉花球或者软布可以冷敷晒伤严重的地方（在晒伤发痛之前使用这种方法，尤其有效）.同样的技术方法，可以立即止痛蚊子造成的瘙痒及其他昆虫的咬伤，也适用于有毒常春藤及橡树碰触造成的皮疹。

消除擦伤

如果你或者你关心的人严重跌倒，用浸透白醋或者棉纱敷于受伤的地方一小时，可以快速治愈，防止淤青。

缓解喉痛

这里讲三种方法可以缓解喉痛地方法：

*如因唱歌，演讲，或者感冒致使喉痛，用溶解了一大汤匙的苹果醋和一茶匙的盐的温水漱口，可以快速缓解疼痛；如需要，一天可多次漱口。

*如喉痛伴随感冒或者流感，可将四分之一杯的苹果醋混合四分之一杯的蜂蜜，每四小时服用一大汤匙。

*为缓解感冒和喉痛，可将二分之一杯的醋，二分之一杯的水，四茶匙的蜂蜜，一茶匙的调味汁调配。每次服用一大汤匙，每天四五次，包括睡前一次。警告：对于一岁以下的儿童，绝不能放蜂蜜。

呼吸顺畅

在蒸汽加湿器中，加入四分之一杯的白醋，可以缓解胸腹受凉或者鼻窦感染造成的呼吸堵塞。醋可以消除因长期使用硬水而沉淀在水管里的水垢。注意：加醋前请检查加湿器的构造。

治疗重感冒溃疮

唯一比重感冒更坏的就是重感冒溃疮。幸而，可以简单的用棉球浸透白醋涂抹患处直至晾干，每天三次，就可以很快缓解疼痛和肿胀。

制作治疗鸡眼及老茧的药膏

这里告诉你一个古老而实用的治疗鸡眼及老茧的偏方：将一小片白面包或者过期面包在四分之一杯的白醋里浸泡30分钟，撕下一片敷在鸡眼上，用纱布或者胶带固定好，放置一晚上。第二天早上，坚硬的老茧已经软化了，鸡眼也可以很容易的去除了。多次这样的重复，厚厚的老茧也可以去除。

先发治疗脚癣

严重的脚癣能让把人逼疯。每天将脚浸泡在纯苹果醋三四次，连续重复几天，就可以很快的去除感染，缓解疼痛。洗烫之前，也可以额外预防一下：将醋和水按照一比四的比例融合，将袜子在溶液里浸泡半小时。

滋养皮肤

将醋用于调节肤色始于特洛伊传说中的海伦。但是今天仍然有效。洗脸之后，将1大汤匙的评估粗和2杯水融合后清洗脸颊，可以使皮肤紧致干净。也可以这样自制面膜：融合四分之一苹果醋和四分之一杯水。将该容易敷于脸上直至晾干。

告别老年斑和晒斑

对于过度暴晒或者荷尔蒙因素导致的褐斑，在采取强硬措施之前，尝试试用一下醋。简单来说，用棉球蘸强度醋到斑痕处，每次敷十分钟，每天至少两次。几周后，斑痕会淡去或者消失。

软化外皮角质

剪修指甲之前，浸泡指甲在一个放了纯度白醋的碗里五分钟，然后可以软化指甲或者脚趾上的外皮角质。

延长指甲油效用

涂抹最喜欢的指甲油之前，在棉球上蘸上白醋沾湿指甲直至晾干，可以延长指甲油的持久力。

清洗眼镜

当戴着眼镜还不如不戴时看的清楚时，说明眼镜需要好好清洗了。在玻璃镜片上滴上几滴白醋，用软布轻轻去除眼镜上的污垢，汗迹，以及指印，直至镜片上没有任何污点。注意，醋不适用于塑胶镜片。

治疗螫咬疼痛

海蜇蕴藏有让人讨厌的毒刺。如果你与海蜇狭路相逢了，到一些纯度醋到蛰咬过得地方，会立刻消解疼痛，再用塑料卡片刮掉毒刺。同样的方法也适用于蜜蜂蛰咬。但不建议用白醋对付海蜇的远方表亲--僧帽水母，因为那样实际上会增加皮肤上的毒素量。警告：如果呼吸困难，或者叮咬的地方开始发炎红肿，立即采用医学办法；否则会有过敏反映。

用在浴室里

清洗浴帘上的霉污

用洗衣机洗掉塑料浴帘及脏毛巾上的霉污：在滚筒里加入二分之一杯的洗涤剂和二分之一杯的发酵粉，放入温水，按照常规程序转动洗衣机。第一次冲洗前，再加入一杯白醋。在洗衣机甩干程序启动前，拿出浴帘挂好凉干即可。

擦洗瓷砖

如果水池或者浴缸的瓷砖上有肥皂渣或水斑，可以用这样的容易擦洗让它回归锃亮：将二分之一杯白醋，二分之一杯氨水，四分之一杯硼砂，融入一加仑（即3.7升）的温水中。再用冷水冲洗后，自然风干即可。

漂白水泥地面

淋浴澡盆的瓷砖附近的水泥地是否有污斑或者污迹呢？用牙刷蘸纯白醋擦洗，可以去除污迹，回归原来的样子。

清洗水池和浴缸

用强度白醋擦洗水池和浴缸的瓷砖，再用冷水冲洗干净，就可以回归闪亮。按照下面的方法可以消除浴盆上的硬水斑痕：倾倒三杯白醋在流动的热水龙头下；直至水位到达污迹的地方，浸泡四小时后排干，这是可以轻易的擦去污迹了。

擦亮浴门

将二分之一杯的白醋，一杯氨水，和四分之一杯的发酵粉融合在一加仑（3.7升）的温水中；用布蘸调配的溶液，可以去除那些让人讨厌的水斑，让里浴门回归锃光瓦亮。

给浴门轨道消毒

用醋可以去除浴门轨道累积的污垢。在轨道里倒入两杯的强度白醋，放置三到五小时（如果轨道实在太脏了，可以在微波炉里先将醋预热三十秒）,再用热水冲掉那些粘稠物质。也许需要用到一个小板刷或者一个回收利用的牙刷，去刮起那些硬质的污垢。

去除淋浴头上的矿物质沉淀

将一跨托（1升）的沸水和二分之一杯的蒸馏醋混合，将可移动的淋浴插头放置其中，可以去除堵塞物和矿物质沉淀物（如果是塑料插头，需要用热水而非沸水）;当从溶液中拿出插头时，堵塞物已经不见了。如果淋雨插头不可移动，将一个小塑料袋子装半袋子醋，并将它捆绑在固定架上，放置一个小时后去掉袋子，并将插头上的粗的残留物擦掉即可。

擦拭浴室固定架

不要仅仅停留在用醋淋浴。在软不上倒上纯度醋，用来擦拭水龙头，毛巾架，浴室镜，门把手，等等。这会让他们闪闪发亮。

战胜真菌和霉菌

倾倒三大汤匙白醋、一茶匙的硼砂和两杯的热水组成溶液，放在喷雾瓶子里摇晃均匀，可清除或抑制浴室里的真菌和霉菌。将溶液喷涂在油漆表面，瓦砾，窗户或者任何你看见真菌或霉菌的地方。用软刷擦洗污斑或者只浸透放置就可以了。

给马桶消毒

想要知道让卫生间美观清新吗？最简便地方法就是倾倒2杯白醋到马桶里，冲洗之前浸泡一晚上。每周定期用白醋清洗的方法也可以帮助防范丑陋的水环，尤其是出现在水位之上的。

清洗牙刷架

用棉签蘸白醋清洗，可去除浴室里牙刷架凹槽里的污点，细菌，以及牙膏斑块。

洗净洗漱杯

如果您家中几个人刷牙后用同一个洗漱杯，您可以每周定期清洗它，在杯子里加入相等的水和白醋，或者只装满高酸度醋，然后放置一晚上。用之前，用冷水彻底冲洗干净。