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People Share The Worst Life Hacks They Used––With Consequences

Should Have Paid More Attention in Chemistry

Heard via radio show that you can use bleach when you hand-wash dishes to make them cleaner. Read the back of my dish soap. Didn’t see any warnings, so I dumped a capful of bleach in my soapy dishwater. The smell was awful and I started getting light-headed. Unplugged the sink, vented the apartment and went outside for a while. Found out later that I had made chlorine gas. Looked up what went wrong. Turns out there’s a big difference between adding bleach to dishwater and rinsing dishes with bleach water.

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Butter Luck Next Time.

Once tried to use butter as tanning lotion. Melted a stick in a coffee mug and had a buddy of mine rub me down. I read it online while sitting by the pool. It didn’t work. At all.

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Wax On, Wax Off?

I did a DIY gelatin peel-off mask. It was supposed to be like a giant Biore strip. Ow, my skin hurts just writing this. But it didn’t peel off, I think I left it on too long and it just ripped off like the first two layers of skin. My face was bleeding/scabby for days after.

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