15 Unusual Uses for Cheap Vodka

Step 4: Mouthwash

Kill the germs that cause bad breath!  Combine cheap vodka with a few drops of cinnamon, spearmint, or tea tree oil and let sit for two weeks.  You've got your own high-octane mouthwash.  Just make sure to spit after you rinse.

And next time you've had too much vodka, you can use the vodka mouthwash to freshen your breath!  No one will be the wiser.

Comments

[arivera11]

Vodka mouthwash would be great in a pinch - especially if you've had a wonderful lunch involving raw onions - but many dentists (including my own) advise against regular use of alcohol based mouthwashes because they use a "scorched earth" method, killing all the bacteria, good and bad. When the bacteria repopulate the mouth, the bad bacteria get a chance to flourish, and bad breath returns in a big way.

As far as the fierce comment battle going on regarding colloidal silver - I worked for years at a holistic wellness center, and have no ties to any product (the center had no brand loyalty either). I've found that for short term use, it can be beneficial. Quantity and quality of the product matter - I would not feel comfortable with a patient making thier own, taking it daily for life, but using a commerical product where PPM is known - for fighting microorganisms when you are sick (internal use) or externally for skin infections or wounds, colliodal has worked well. Alternatively, for those of your uncomfortable with silver, GSE (grapefruit seed extract) may be preferable - just make sure it is well diluted.

[DeliciousMystic]

Thanks for the info about using a vodka mouthwash often.. I had been using a diluted one that I had made, and it seemed to do a good job, but I don't like the idea of a scorched earth strategy.. I guess I will go back to trying to flavor apple cider vinegar.. which doesn't taste as mouthwashy, but did seem to do a better job..

[P.Bechthold]

Oh. Hate to be a pooper! But:

Mouthwash vodka is probably not a great idea. After Ke$ha told us to brush our teeth with a bottle of jack, I tried it. It was great feeling! very tingly. BUT. I asked my dentist about it later on (We chat about many things). She explained that the residual alcohol in your mouth is just sugar nasties waiting to eat your enamel away.

Now, I hope that isnt true.... But it doesnt make sense. So maybe this use is not as useful as we hoped.

[sbates1]

Your dentist forgot basic chemistry and/or doesn't understand alcohol.

Jack Daniels is bourbon, and Vodka is (well...vodka). Both typically are 80 proof (aka: 40% alcohol by volume). That other 60% doesn't include sugar, or the drinks would be liqueurs. Now, if you tried to brush your teeth with say, Gran Marnier, then yes, there would be some residual sugars in the liquid.

My only issue with this idea is that your breath WILL smell of vodka afterward if you've used the cheap stuff. Run your vodka through a Britta water filter first to remove that cheap Stoli flavor, and you could do this.

Heck, do it anyway. It makes your cheap hooch taste and smell better.

[P.Bechthold]

HUZZAH!

Bring on the Jack :)

I googled it some more. Yup. I will have to let her know next checkup that I have been brushing exclusively with booze. Thanks for the comment :)

[Tim Temple]

You want to kill germs that cause bad breath?
mix 85% silver colloid solution at 5 PPM
5% alcohol (figure it yourself from the strength of your vodka
10% hydrogen peroxide.

This will wipe out the flora & fauna in your mouth -- and keep doing so for many hours. No rinsing and you can drink it.

[akueny]

I am a little more worried about your hydrogen peroxide percentage since large oral doses of hydrogen peroxide at a 3% concentration may cause "irritation and blistering to the mouth, (which is known as Black hairy tongue) throat, and abdomen", as well as "abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea".

[fredellarby]

and I just happened to have a couple of extra bottles of silver colloid on hand.
I do happen to have some vodka nearby!

[tkasputis]

The body does not break down silver, nor does it get excreted. It just sits in your body for the rest of your life. Please DO NOT attempt to consume silver in any form!

[lucek]

Sir look up argyria and stop taking silver. Silver can be deposited in you're hair skin and organs causing pain discoloration and even decreasing function of some organs like kidneys.

[DavidKaine]

God forbid my pain become discolored...

[anutt]

Hahaha
Grammar, people! Grammar!

[pwag1]

Argyria has nothing to do with the PPM other than it takes a lot of silver to turn one bluish-grey. It has everything to with particle size. Particles above about 10 microns get stuck in the small capillaries in the skin. Other than turning one permanently bluish-grey, .which may be a benefit if one is in the Gothic scene, it does no harm.

Most of the people who get argyria got it because they were incorrectly making their own "colloidal silver" and drinking a lot of sludge.

BTW most "colloidal silver" is actually mostly ionic silver with a little elemental colloidal silver. "Real" colloidal silver is just the opposite.

If you make the stuff yourself with electrolysis, control the current to a maximum of a few milliamps (use a current limiting diode) and post filter with a one micron absolute filter.

If H5N1 (Bird Flu) which is still killing over 50% of those that catch it ever combines with a highly contagious strain of flu and the resultant new strain retains the H5N1 lethality, colloidal silver may be the only thing that will save you and your family. Be sure to see the new movie Contagion that just came out. Fiction but a real potential.

[lucek]

You want to review the facts before you repeat claims from people trying to sell it to you. There are cases of Argyria from commercially sold products, from suspensions of silver particles, water containing silver ions and silver salts.

Further as I said the build up of silver in tissue is associated with hardening of the tissue and pain.

There is a risk for colloidal silver and despite what people will tell you about the antimicrobial effects of silver, there is no scientific evidence that consuming it is beneficial. It's based off prescientific notions that rare metals were magical.

Telling people to take something with risks and no proven benefit is not just ignorant, but immoral. Spreading lies about medicine kills people.

[skylane]

DRINK IT???? LOL You must be selling the stuff... MLM?
This guy drinks it.. He's now a irreversible blue.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22536241
The FDA recommends AGAINST IT...
http://www.fda.gov/Food/DietarySupplements/Alerts/ucm184087.htm

[drjeffapp]

Sensationalist tripe. I have been selling, advising to patients, and using colloidal silver for over 18 years now. I am not blue, my kids are not, and none of my patients are. No where in those stories does it say how many PPM or how concentrated that blue man's solutions were that he made himself. Just like anything, too much is not good for you. I use 10ppm that I purchase from a reputable company and is made from a regulated process. We have seen many health benefits.

[lucek]

I advise you for you're health and you're kids health stop using it. You may not be blue but silver deposits are building up in you're tissues. At the very least this is adding risk to you're lives without benefit.

[Mamohau]

But would you pass a zero-tolerance police breath test?!