Live A Long And Healthy Life By Incorporating Garlic Into Your Diet

Removes splinters

Splinters may be small but they can be some of the most painful things to extract from your skin, especially when they are deep. It might sound bizarre but garlic is a tried and tested method for successfully removing a splinter from the skin.

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Simply place a cut piece of garlic clove over the splinter, bandage it and the splinter will eventually come out. This is due to garlic’s antibacterial properties that eliminate painful and foreign objects from the skin.