20 Amazing Uses of Rubbing Alcohol

Drinking alcohol is injurious to health. Heard it right? Of course it is. But you would be more amazed and glad to know there are many other miscellaneous uses of alcohol especially rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol which is quite common in everyone home’s medicine cabinet can not only be used for cleaning wounds but also for your daily household issues as well as your personal ones. Now let’s get straight to the list of its amazing uses that you barely know.

1. Bed bugs terminator

Yes, now you can get rid of those irritating bed bugs that ruin your quality and peaceful sleep by spraying rubbing alcohol on and around your mattress and bed that is because rubbing alcohol is a solution (solvent) that kills insects by dissolving their cells. Rubbing alcohol is a great bed bug repellent that prevents them from crawling and laying eggs in your bed.

2. Cleaning ear wax

If you still using ear cleaning cotton buds then let me tell you your ears are at super risk. Cotton stick buds push the ear wax down your ear canal by accumulating the wax blocking the ear. But you can easily clean your ear wax simply by mixing a few drops of vinegar with rubbing alcohol and pouring the solution into your ear.

3. Muscular and joint pains

Muscle cramps and joint pains can get instant relief on applying rubbing alcohol on the affected area. It not only soothes your pain but also induces proper blood circulation.

4.  Cold sores

Have you ever thought about rubbing alcohol curing cold sores? Yeah you read it right! An amazing use of rubbing alcohol you can never imagine is curing cold sores. Just dab some rubbing alcohol using cotton on the cold sores and it heals real faster.

5. DIY Hand Sanitizer

If you ever run out of your regular hand sanitizer, you have a much better option. Just take few drops of rubbing alcohol and rub all around your hand and palms. It kills germs as well as foul odour.

6. Lice killer

Worst nightmare you can ever have, if you get lice and their entire breed in your hair. They are supper irritating causing itchiness and stinky smell from your hair. But no worries, if you have rubbing alcohol solution and some vinegar. Mix both in equal amounts and rinse your hair twice a week and the entire lice breed are gone easily as well as their eggs.

7. Cleaning nail fungus

Fungal infections in your nails can be very messy and unhygienic. But rubbing alcohol can help you a lot cleaning the infection. You need to mix equal amount of water and rubbing alcohol to soak your nails in the solution for 20 minutes everyday.

8. Alleviating mosquito bites

Rubbing alcohol relieves itchiness caused due to mosquito bites. It also works as a disinfectant killing the effect of inflammation, healing it faster. Isn’t it an amazing use of rubbing alcohol?

9. Homemade ice bag

You can make a homemade ice bag yourself at home by mixing 1 part of rubbing alcohol and 3 parts of water and putting in freezer bag to freeze it. Once the bag gets solid your ice bag is ready to be used on your sprains and muscular cramps.

10. Cleaning mirrors and windows

Running on last few drops of glass cleansing solutions, no worries! If you have got rubbing alcohol, dampen a soft cotton piece of cloth and wipe your mirrors and window glasses clean and shiny.

11. Stain remover

No more stain shocks! Ink stains, grease stains or even permanent marker stains can easily be cleaned using rubbing alcohol solution. Simply soak your stained material in the solution and get the stains vanished!

12. Carpet cleaner

Cleaning carpets become a huge headache for all of us. Either we go for hand washing or dry washing. Hand washing can be super strenuous but if you have rubbing alcohol solution simple pour half a glass of rubbing alcohol into a big bucket of water and let the carpet soak in it. Rinse it with water and get super cleaned carpet.

13. Sterilizer

Another super use of rubbing alcohol is you can sterilize your needles, thermometers, tweezers or scissors using the solution to keep them hygienic and germ free.

14. Cleaning makeup brushes

You can clean your regular makeup brushes by rinsing them in lukewarm water and soaking them in rubbing alcohol for 5-10 minutes and again rinse it with water and let it dry.

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15. Nail polish remover

Your nail shade remove is itself an alcohol solution for your information. If you ever run out of your nail shade remover simply take a cotton ball soak some rubbing alcohol and clean and get your nail shades removed.

16. Shoe deodorizer

If your feet sweats too much it’s natural your shoes will stink. To get rid of that stinky smell from your pair of sneakers, take some rubbing alcohol solution in a spray bottle and spray the solution inside your shoes and let it dry overnight. Next morning the smell would be gone!

17. Removing sticky residue

Usually sticky residue or greasy texture is found in kitchen and your kitchen chimney, gas stoves, utensils get greasy. But cleaning them with a cloth soaked in rubbing alcohol can easily help you to get rid of sticky residue.

18. Cleaning phone and keyboards

Getting your phone screen and keyboards dirty and fingerprints imprinted? No worries! Take an ultra smooth cloth and soak some rubbing alcohol solution and carefully wipe the screen and keyboards to clean it precisely.

19. Stainless steel cleaner

Stains especially grease stains are very common in your stainless steel items. To clean them nicely wipe the surface with a rubbing alcohol damped cloth.

20. Preventing fruit flies

Are you super irritated because of fruit flies hovering in your kitchen? Here is an amazing use of rubbing alcohol to get rid of those irritating fruit flies. Take a spray bottle and fill it with rubbing alcohol solution and spray all around your kitchen, (make sure gas stove is turned off and food items are contained properly). You can see all the flies falling to the floor within few seconds.