For those of us with hard water in your homes the color and texture of all things water lives and dies with your water softener. Diamond Crystal makes a Softener salt pellet that has added chemicals to help keep your softener running more efficent and much longer. The bags can be found in most home improvement stores and comes in a 40Lb bag for around $5.00.  The bag has an easy caring han...

Let's face it, everyone sooner or later needs to have a few extra batteries around the house for electronics, remotes, etc. and of course no one wants to pay a fortune for them either. I especially pay particular attention to keeping my battery back ups for my clocks current as well as THE most important things that count, like my smoke alarms. Rayovac is probably the best battery you c...

As a day to day swimmer, I know it's very important to get rid of the chloride from you're body and hair after long swim time in the pool. Chloride has massive destruction affects on you're body including hair-loss for instance, and awful odors that are incredibly hard to get rid of.Tri Swim Conditioner's effects are moisturizing dry skin and gently removing chlorine and chlorin...

If you have lime (calcium) in your hard water this product will clean off those deposits very well.  It does not deliver as well on its other promises.CLR (short for Calcium, Lime, Rust) promises to remove calcium, lime (redundant... lime is calcium chloride!), and hard water deposits, discoloration, soap scum and dirt.  It is non abrasive and also claims to deoderize.I tried this pro...

Recently, I developed the weirdest kind of cold. My symptoms were very different than the usual "wet" sniffles. This time, my nasal passages became extremely dry and crusty. Nothing seemed to help alleviate this, and during the night, I would awaken and not be able to breathe.I've never cared much for nasal sprays, because so many of them caused rebound symptoms in a few days...

When my baby got sick with colds, she looked like a dog. She would breathe through her mouth, so her mouth was continually open and her tongue hanging out. Sometimes she would drool. It was because her nose was stuffy from the mucus stuck in her nostrils. And since she doesn't know how to blow her nose, she would contend herself with just breathing from her mouth.Then my sister in law gave ...

Salinase, with generic name Sodium Chloride, is actually a simple salt solution, or more scientifically known as a buffered isotonic saline solution. Its use is for dyr, crusted, and stuffy nostrils.  Three drops per nostrils as needed should do the trick. For infants, after the solution has been dropped, it is suggested that the nose of the baby be massaged and then suctioned so as to rem...