In the beauty department:
To get skin that looks smooth and radiant, slather some honey (with a couple drops of lemon juice) on your face before bed and then rinse off after 30 min or longer. I’ve been doing this almost daily for 2 weeks and my face really likes it. Especially my forehead. It’s very smooth.
Any one else have anything to share? I need some more solutions to make life easier and nicer.
baking soda makes a great facial scrub. Put a small heap in your hand, add just enough water to make a thin paste, and gently work onto your face.
olive oil is a great facial moisturizer
mayonnaise is a great hair conditioning treatment for dry hair. work into your hair, wrap in a plastic bathing cap and let it sit for about 20 minutes, then wash your hair as normal.
If you’re feeling the effects of dry furnace air, place a pan of water next to your heater vent for a makeshift humidifier.
Mixing sugar, salt, oatmeal, or cornmeal with yogurt, honey, or moisturizer to make a facial scrub. Very gently exfoliating is the key. And I’ve read doing the same with a paste made from aspirins is even better, works similar to alpha-hydroxy lotion.
Coating your dried out hands and feet with Vaseline, putting on white cotton gloves or socks, and sleeping that way overnight is an oldie but a goodie for getting rid of dry rough skin.
Beaten egg white very lightly applied to one’s facial wrinkles with a little brush is said to be a good, though temporary, firming and tightening potion.
And you can brush your teeth with it! (In fact, we could do an entire thread on the astounding and many uses for baking soda.)
Vaseline, I concur, is another inexpensive product that seems to do a lot for problem/dry areas, especially elbows and feet. I also use it as a lip balm when I’m sick or if the weather turns really dry.
Baby oil can take makeup off and does wonders for keeping legs from developing dry scaly skin. I used to put it in my bath water back when I was fond of taking lots of baths, and would come out very soft and hydrated. It also works well to cut grease if you’ve got some on your hands from doing maintenance work on something–it seems to dilute the existing grease and make it much easier to wash off.
Pantyhose will truly last a lot longer if you wash them by hand instead of putting them in the washing machine. I just wash them with hand soap, rinse and squeeze, and hang on the shower stall.
Great OP/Username combination, by the way. 
You want your hair to grow back?
Cut up habanero chiles (or similarly hot chiles) and dump them in vodka. Take a cotton ball or wadded up piece of toilet paper and dab the vodka on the balding areas each night and each morning and your hair will return.
Seriously.
(Umm, there are some complications, though… none having to do with impotency, however.)
If you’re prone to greasy hair, i.e., your hair looks “flat” but you don’t have the time and/or inclination to wash it (this applies mainly to women with longer hair, because it’s more time-consuming) a sprinkle of baby powder at the roots works quite well as a dry shampoo.
It’s like face powder for your hair; it absorbs the grease.
Sprinkle some wherever your hair looks dirty/greasy/flat (generally the temples and the crown) and flip your head over, run your fingers through your hair repeatedly, flip back over, and…ta-da.
It’s saved me many times when I’m running late for work.
This also works well if your hair is “too clean” to hold a style.
Hairspray is good for removing crayon and felt tip masterpieces drawn on the kitchen table by your children.
The only place I’d like to re-grow hair is on my eyebrows - so they would be a little fuller. But a too-wet cotton ball dripping habanero peppered vodka into my eyes might be a problem… :eek:
Ooh! It also seems to help if you’ve marked your clothes with ballpoint pens.
I clean my shower with baking soda–it seems to be kinder than Comet style powder cleaner and scent free.
To stop coughing when you are trying to sleep, and the Nyquil (or codeine for that matter) is not cutting it, rub VapoRub on your feet, then wear socks to bed on top of this. My wife had a lingering night time cough for over 2 months, doing this cleared it in 2-3 nights.
A couple tricks to speed up a slow drain:
dump baking soda, or a baking soda/water paste, down the drain and chase it with white vinegar. Bubbly! (If you really can’t stand the smell of vinegar, you can use lemon juice with equally good effect.)
dump salt down the drain and chase it with a kettleful of boiling water.
One of the original supermodels, Jerry Hall, swears by this, and she is from Texas, which is a pretty dry place, so I’d believe her.
And she still looks pretty damned good for someone with all that mileage… 
Mick Jagger Years are like dog years, right?
A mixture of sugar and olive oil makes a great foot scrub.
It’s the alcohol in traditional hairspray that removes the ink. Since I don’t keep hairspray in the house, I use rubbing alcohol if I mark an item of clothing.
Make sure that your skin is well hydrated before putting a moisturizing product on. You should pat your skin almost dry after a bath or shower, and immediately put on a moisturizer for maximum effect. My podiatrist wants me to rinse my feet and legs with tepid water two or three times a day, pat almost dry, and then use the super heavy duty moisturizer that he prescribes for me, and I have to admit, when I follow his directions, my skin is much softer.