If you've caught a nasty cold, it helps to gargle with warm SALTwater. If your children are ill, let them inhale steam from hot SALTwater through a reversed funnel.

Carefully rub your face with a mix of cream and salt. Then rinse with lukewarm water – your skin will turn beautiful and smooth.

Once a week, brush your teeth with SALT instead of toothpaste. They will become dazzlingly white.

Place the butter in a glass container and pour cold SALTwater over it, until the butter is completely covered. Close the container well.

A pinch of SALT is all it takes: If you add a pinch of SALT to your ground coffee before you brew it, it will become particularly aromatic.

Your lettuce stays fresh and crisp if you SALT it after you've rinsed it, and leave it for 5 to 10 minutes before you add the dressing.

Sprinkle some SALT on your chestnuts, and you'll have no trouble roasting them. SALT dissipates the humidity and the chestnuts open – as if by magic!

If you mash the parsley with SALT in an earthenware container, you will never run out of aromatic parsley in your kitchen.

To give your cake that delicious yellow colour even if you're not using many eggs, add some SALT when you beat the yolk.

Cooking oil keeps longer, if you add some SALT to the bottle.