10 Uses For Baby Powder Other Than Putting It On a Crying Baby

Last Updated on 2021-01-17 , 4:10 pm

While baby powder isn’t exactly nuclear weapon material, it’s also hardly confined to the spaces of your precious body.

In fact, some hidden uses of this age-old classic might just blow your mind and you don’t even have to dab your head with it.

Wondering what the hell baby powder can do apart from sanitising your backside?

Well, look no further, for here are 10 Other Surprising Uses For Baby Powder Other Than Putting On Your Body you shouldn’t just read, but know about!

Knowledge is a weapon, so learn more while you can. Especially baby powder. That shit might not win a Nobel price, but it might just save your life one day. In one way or another. – Johnson

1. Pet Cleaning Kit 101

You didn’t read that wrong. Baby powder isn’t just catered to human skin; it’s more than worthy of furry mugs too.

If your pet has an intense dislike for bathtubs (probably), or you don’t want it to inadvertently mess up your huge lavish jacuzzi… turn to baby powder.

Use it as a dry shampoo for your pet, and it will get him/her all nice and fresh without all the ruckus and mess that comes with using a bathtub.

Rub a handful of it into your pet’s fur, let it sit for a couple of minutes and brush. Apart from removing oil buildup and making their coats look freshly waxed, it’s also a solid 10 in the smell department.

Happy pet, happy me.

2. Cool Sheets

Singapore has been kinda warm of late.

Actually, scratch that, it’s been literally stifling hot of late.

And it’s the absolute worst when you’re trying to sleep in the dead of the night, your air-con has spluttered its last breath. Your fan is trying its best to save you from a drenched death in your own bed, but let’s face it; valiance can only go so far.

As a result, you’re forced to lie there like a lion’s next meal just waiting to happen.

If you’re facing those issues, here’s what you should do: grab a bottle of baby powder.

Sprinkle it over the sheets; the powder keeps them nice and cool.

And to top it all off, the powder will absorb your stinky sweat, and assist you with a refreshing night’s sleep.

Note: any baby powder will do.

3. Grease Absorbent

Now, I’m sure we all know it: grease is pretty gross.

And that’s especially so if you accidentally dribble some onto say, your favourite T-shirt or the carpet your beloved great-grandmother left you in her wake.

Now, while most might feel indifferent to the latter, the former, as I’m sure you guys will relate to, makes us sad beyond belief.

Our favourite T-shirt? Nuuuuu!

Before you spill some milk onto the floor and cry even more, just know that you can fix that irritating grease stain.

Simply sprinkle your T-shirt (and your carpet if you wish) with baby powder. The astringent powder should absorb the oil and refresh the fabric, making your possessions look as good as new.

Fabulous.

4. Face Fix

Before you get the wrong idea, baby power cannot fix your face the way plastic surgery does. The powder might be really useful, but it’s not exactly marijuana.

Rather, I’m talking about makeup.

Instead of paying for that expensive finishing powder she’s got plastered all over her face, why not use some baby powder as a base instead?

5. Ant Repellant

Ants can be pretty darn annoying, seeing how they are practically mini harbingers of doom when food’s involved.

And it’s even more annoying when you kill like a million of them, and another million turn up in their place. Where do they think this is, China?

Exasperated, you try dialling for professional pest control services, but hang up when they inform you of their rates. There’s no point getting rid of ants if you’re not gonna have any money left for food, is there?

But don’t cry just yet, Hawkgirl, because there’s an effective solution right in the comfort of your own home.

Surprise, baby powder!

Sprinkle a line around doors or windows to keep those pesky critters at bay. They might love your Nutella doughnuts, but apparently, they treat baby powder like how children react to broccoli.

Intense dislike, that is.

6. Freshening up old books

While baby powder can’t exactly substitute that snobbish librarian who haunts your local library, I dare say it does a better job at one aspect:

Keeping books alive.

If you find your old books looking and smelling like they escaped from a garbage dump (ala Toy Story), sprinkle them with baby powder.

Though take note; you have to let your books dry first (especially if you’ve left them alone for months or even years).

Open them up and allow them to air dry for a few hours. After that, sprinkle a bit of baby powder between each of the pages, stand them upright and leave them for a couple of hours (till the next day for the best result. After that, brush out the powder.)

Apart from absorbing moisture, those sprinkles of baby powder get rid of all that pesky mould and keep your books looking distinctly fresh and alive.

Now you don’t have to fear some incurable disease while reading your favourite Harry Potter book.

Hooray.

7. Shoe Deodorant

Think the garbage dump smells bad?

You’ve obviously never tried wearing rain-soaked, non-aired shoes out the very next day.

Seriously, if you value the very existence of humanity, don’t wear them out. It’s bad enough if you’re stuck with a dumpster on your feet; don’t cause others to faint too.

If you do have to wear those particular shoes no matter what, use some baby powder.

Fill your sorry excuse of shoes with baby powder and let it set overnight. Dump out the contents the next day and slip them on. Your shoes shouldn’t smell like a pair of boosted Sembcorp trucks anymore.

8. Exclusive Wax Pain Protector

If you’ve waxed your legs before, you would be aware of this:

It hurts like shit.

Thankfully, baby powder makes waxing a tad bit more tolerable.

Before waxing, make sure to dust your legs with baby powder. This creates a layer that helps protect against the incoming burn.

Now, while I can’t guarantee it will be 100 percent effective, it should get a whole lot less painful.

But even so, you probably wouldn’t be having as much fun as the girls below.

Suck it up, eh? Even the almighty baby powder can only do so much.

9. Closet Freshener

Having come out of enlistment a year before, I can tell you this: air fresheners are a literal godsend, especially during BMT or field camp in particular. 

How else could I possibly survive every single time I open my closet, which is stocked full of uniforms that seemed to have gone to Hell and back?

Yet, even so, I remember that one time when my air freshener died on me.

Just as I was about to faint, my BMT mate, J, threw a bottle of baby powder at my face and asked me to use it. As it turns out, it’s pretty damn good.

After sprinkling a bit of powder into a dish (which my buddy brought in for some reason), I left it in the closet for a couple of hours. When I opened it up, it smelled a whole lot fresher.

So apparently, baby powder’s equipped with moisture removing properties that keep closets from smelling musty. It can even remove tough oodourslike cigarette smoke (don’t say I say one ah, smokers).

Well thank goodness for baby powder, I must say. Considering it was a period when I just came back from Field Camp.

10. Never Get Chafed Again

Before I embarked on my 24km route march, I heard horror stories of how soldiers chafed their legs so much mid-march that they had to drop out. And apparently it wasn’t even because they wanted to chao keng; it’s simply because it hurt so damn bad.

Just as I was breaking out in cold sweat, J, whom you might recall from the last point, poked me in the ribs and pointed to the bottle of baby powder.

“Serious?” I remember asking.

“Never more serious, bro,” he replied with this glint in his eye.

Trusting him, I applied heaps of baby powder (I realised later that you don’t actually have to sprinkle so much) on the parts that are in the red zone: my inner thighs and neck areas. And incredibly, I experienced zero chafing during the march (although baby powder will blow in my face every time I take a leak. Also why you don’t actually have to apply so much).

Later on, I found that baby powder actually helps to eliminate friction, so your skin stays smooth and pain-free. Incredible, isn’t it? Also, you can also use baby powder for marathons, seeing how your inner thighs will effectively rub against each other for a few consecutive hours (unless you have a thigh gap, of course).

And there you have it, folks, 10 Uses For Baby Powder Other Than Putting On a Crying Baby you probably never knew about.

So the next time your shoes are smelling funky, or your pet refuses to get into the bathtub…

You know what to do.

On another note, I realised one thing as I was writing this article:

If you recall, the BMT mate I mentioned in the last two points had the initial J. Yet for some reason I never quite remembered what it stood for.

But I do now. And it makes so much sense. Sobs, how could I ever forget about him? My BMT mate…

Johnson.

Note: this is not a sponsored post. And I’m sorry for the lame jokes. #notreally

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