Tip of the week: How to get more from your milk

Rescue plants with it. If a “powdery mildew” appears on your houseplants, mix one part milk with nine parts water and spray them weekly.

Use it as a skin softener. Before slipping into a warm bath, add one cup of milk. The lactic acid “really does a body good.”

Fight stains with it. Run for the refrigerator whenever you spill red wine on a tablecloth, shirt, or dress. Submerge the stained fabric in milk, squeeze out the excess moisture immediately, then launder as usual.

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Soothe burns with it. Milk fat “calms inflammation and helps skin heal.” The next time you suffer a minor burn, cover it with a washcloth soaked in milk.

Buff shoes with it. Use milk to moisten a cloth and you can “buff dull patent leather back to gleaming glory.”

Source: Real Simple