Over 20 Household Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide
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Nearly every home has a bottle of hydrogen peroxide sitting in the medicine cabinet. Long used as a first aid treatment for cuts and scrapes, this bubbly mix of water and H2O2 has been shown to heal infections as severe as gangrene through simple oxidation.
Recent research, however, has shown that your bottle of hydrogen peroxide may not be as medically useful as you think. In fact, many doctors don’t recommend its use for traditional wounds, saying it can actually inhibit the natural healing process. Before you run to the cabinet to toss that brown bottle, however, read on. We’ve compiled a list of household uses for peroxide that may just make it more useful in your home than ever before!