Tomato Plant Stains
Dear Aunt Daisy, For the Link whose hands get stained through gardening with tomato plants I have a great fellow feeling. I have often had badly stained hands and no matter wh&t was recommended, found nothing to equal a lemon with the outer skin dried hard. Rub the juice in a little and then use the hard outer skin like a pumice stone, and the stains will disappear. Another thing found most effective was tartaric acid. This I used after peeling red peaches which left a terrible mess on my hands. It would probably not be wise to use it often, though. Of course a good hand lotion used regularly keeps the hands smoother. "Another Link." Dear Aunt. Daisy, Here is a tip for the woman who is troubled with tomato plant stains on her fingers. I worked on a vegetable production scheme during the war, and the only thing that removed the stains was to rub the fingers with a really rotten tomato. It doesn’t sound a very nice remedy, but it worked. A tomato with brown spot is quite good, but the more than over-ripe one is better. "Beryl of Orangimea."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 23
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196Tomato Plant Stains New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 23
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