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5 Hand Washing Techniques To Help Keep Your Child From The Flu and Other Virus
Kids are their own worst enemies when it comes to flu season. Having clean hands is the best deterrent. Unfortunately, kids and clean hands don't mix well!
Children (at any age) touch everything in sight. The younger they are the easier access they have to the most disgusting and germ infested surfaces, e.g., underneath tables, shoes, trash cans, and worst of all for our little crawlers…the dreaded floor! If touching these grimy surfaces isn't gross enough. The very next thing they do is take a fistful of fingers and shove them in their mouth!
Brush Cleaning: Keeping Brushes Long After You're Done Creating
It is easy to keep a brush clean for many years with simple regular maintenance. The most effective way to keep and clean brushes is by using a mild soap. There are some brush cleaners made especially for cleaning brushed but they can be expensive and are used up very quickly. Brush cleaners are very good for those really hard to clean brushes or for a periodical cleaning if you want to recondition your brushes.
Using 100% pure soap, in bar form is probably the easiest method and if you use chemical products that require chemical clean up, then do so first. These chemicals are especially harmful to brushes.
Begin by cleaning the brush thoroughly with the required cleaner. Wet the bar of soap under running water and then wet the brush bristles. Swirl the brush on the bar. Do this until you see a chemical film being released from the bristles. Rinse and repeat this process until you no longer see any discoloration or film on the soap.
If you use oil paints then you will see color on the bar, as chemicals never completely remove color. You will repeat the swirl and rinse process until the color is no longer visible on the bar of soap.
The brush is clean when you see white sudsy foam on the soap. Rinse one last time and lay out for drying.
The final step and the one that will keep the brush bristles straight and even, is proper drying. Using an old phone book is good. This allows flat brushes to dry flat, retaining their shape.
Place the brush bristles, between the phone book pages. The weight of the book flattens the bristles at the same time as absorbing the excess water. Phone book pages are quiet absorbent and besides what else do you do with an old phone book.
Allow drying overnight, preferably, but brushes will usually dry within a few hours depending on the temperature.
To dry round brushes you might want to dab your fingers with a slight amount of wet soap, then apply to the bristles of the round brush and allow to air dry. Soap helps to shape the brush and discourages the bristles from curling out. The soap will not be noticeable when you use it next. But remember only a dab of soap.
After your brushes are dried you will see that they almost look new again. It will definitely encourage your creative side and will keep you and your brushes going for many years.
This method works well on paintbrushes used for house painting as well, if you are the do-it-yourselfer that loves to paint your home that is.
Cleaning your brushes this way allows you to create at a moments notice. Next time that creative urge strikes, you will be ready with clean equipment and no need to make a creativity defusing run.
Tips On The Proper Way To Wash Your Car Or Truck
It's a nice sunny day and you decide to wash the car, however the hottest part of the day is probably the worst time to wash your car. Water dries up quick, and soapy water is the key to avoiding scratches and swirl marks. Follow these simple steps to ensure you have a swirl mark free shine every time.
Make sure you car is cool
Do not start washing your car in the middle of the day, or after a long drive. This is especially important for your breaks and rims. Introducing cold water on your hot break rotors may cause them to warp. While very rare, cold water on an extremely hot windshield can cause it to crack.
Implementing A Successful Sales Program
Implementing a sales program to bring in more business takes planning that the average company normally does not provide to the activity. Too many companies are just sending people into the market with a basic understanding of the products or services to be sold, a few techniques on how to find and approach the prospect and hope that this energy will snag a new customer. It is a waste of time!
The approach to selling has gone through a number of iterations in the past ten to fifteen years. First it was product sales through introduction. Gosh, every one needs soap, so why not buy some. We then saw competition come into the market so we started to brand our bar of soap and define some benefits you can have by using our soap. When everyone started to show the same benefits we decided to have soap as part of a consulting initiative where there was a technique for using our soap that made it that much more effective as soap and the results to you were clearly visible. At this point we have evolved to consultative sales techniques. As competition started to also be consultative we put more sophistication into our selling and called it ?strategic selling?. Our soap became part of a broader strategy that if used in combination with other products such as perfumes, and special water treatments, our soap now made a longer term fit in the customer?s requirements. So strategically our soap has developed a sophistication value and became part of the whole portfolio theme. This is where the twentieth century ended for our soap guys. Not all products have the characteristic simplicity of soap, however.
Make Your Own Wipe Solution
Wipe solutions are so easy to make and can save you money too! Use them for cleaning sticky hands and messy faces as well as dirty bottoms. Unlike commercial wipes, these recipes don't contain alcohol or chemicals, and they smell good. Use these recipes on cloth wipes or make your own disposable wipes and save even more money! To make disposable wipes, cut high quality paper towels in half, or leave whole for full-size wipes.
Common Cloth Wipe Solution Ingredients:
Many wipe solution recipes contain similar main ingredients, which are used for the same reason in each recipe. These are the common ingredients and why they're included: