Who doesn't know the feeling of nasal congestion when it is impossible to talk and sleep normally? Difficulty in nasal breathing or its absence at all leads to a deterioration in the sense of smell and taste. Many of us prefer to be treated exclusively with folk remedies, in which laundry soap for a cold can help them. It is widely used in everyday life, as well as in the treatment of rhinitis.
Due to its antibacterial properties, soap is widely used in the treatment of rhinitis and skin diseases (fungal infection, acne).
Laundry soap is hypoallergenic, and therefore can be used in the treatment of children over 6 years old.
Soap composition and benefits
To make soap, natural ingredients are used - animal fat, white clay, salt (sodium or potassium), fatty acids, as well as rosin, thanks to which the product is preserved for a long time.
After using the soap, the risk of developing allergies is minimal, because it contains no dyes, essential oil and other impurities. The pH level is 11-12 units.
Which soap bar should you choose? There are 65, 69, and 72 percent types of soap. Often a 72% agent is used for therapeutic purposes, which can be distinguished by its dark color.
The action of the "medicine" is:
- anti-inflammatory effect;
- reduction of swelling, hyperemia of the mucous membrane;
- elimination of pathogenic pathogens;
- reduction of rhinorrhea;
- normalization of the outflow of secretions from the nasal cavities;
- cleansing the mucous membrane, improving the functioning of the cilia;
- elimination of itching, sneezing;
- restoration of nasal breathing.
Contraindications
Treatment of a cold with laundry soap can bring a lot of complications if you do not follow the recommendations for using this "medicine". Given its property to dry out the mucous membrane of the nasal cavities, the agent should not be used with an atrophic form of the common cold. As a result, the course of the disease will become more severe, dryness in the nose will increase, mucosal atrophy will progress, and the number of dry crusts will also increase.
With an allergic form of rhinitis, you should not use laundry soap, so as not to aggravate the pathology.
If therapy is continued for more than 10 days, there is a risk of disturbance in the alkaline balance of the nasal mucosa.
This can lead to a disorder of secretion, a decrease in protective properties, as well as a violation of the qualitative, quantitative composition of the microflora.
Soap preparation methods
Rhinitis can be cured with a combination medicine, one of the ingredients of which is laundry soap. For cooking, you will need honey, low-fat milk, vegetable oil, vodka, and onion juice.
First, grind the soap with a knife or a coarse grater. It is quite difficult, but you need to try. After grinding, mix all the ingredients, except for vodka, in the same amount (15 g or 15 ml each). Fill the mixture with vodka, put it in a water bath for 5 minutes, remove from heat and cool.
Having received a healing ointment, you should smear the nasal mucosa twice a day. Alternatively, you can moisten a cotton swab with the medicine and insert it into your nose for a quarter of an hour. You can store the ointment in the refrigerator, and warm it up before each use. When using such a healing agent, sneezing and a slight tingling in the nose are possible, however, the discomfort quickly passes.
For prophylactic purposes in case of a flu epidemic, it is recommended to lather your hands with soap, and then lubricate the nasal mucosa with foam. This will remove infectious pathogens from the mucosal surface. This procedure should be repeated after each return home from the street or contact with a sick person.
For therapeutic or prophylactic purposes, you can rinse the nasal cavities with a special detergent solution. To prepare it, it is enough to dissolve a small piece of soap in warm water. For the procedure, you can use a small syringe or container with a spout. Do not rinse the nose with a high pressure jet of solution.
There are some more useful recipes:
- 230 ml of a solution made from soap and warm water must be mixed with iodine (5 drops), baking soda (2 g) and salt (2 g). The prepared solution should be used to rinse the nose twice a day. After the procedure, you should blow your nose well. This will completely clear the nasal passages and prevent the accumulation of discharge in the paranasal sinuses. If your nose is heavily clogged, you can "blow your nose" before the procedure, as well as after it;
- you can rinse your nose with a solution that includes salt, soda and soap (without iodine);
- for the preparation of the next remedy, you will need soap shavings, beet juice, olive oil, onion juice, and propolis tincture. First, you should thoroughly rinse the beets, peel them, and the onions - from the husks. Then the vegetables are crushed and the juice is squeezed out using cheesecloth. All ingredients are selected in a volume of 50 ml or 50 g, after which they are mixed into a homogeneous mixture. It should be heated in a water bath for 5 minutes and sucked out a little. Thus, we get a healing ointment. She needs to lubricate cotton turundas, inject into the nose for a quarter of an hour;
- the recipe includes onion juice, soap shavings, and baking soda. For cooking, you need to peel the onion from the husk, finely chop it with a knife and squeeze the juice through several layers of cheesecloth. rentgirl.co.nz It will take 20 ml. Then you need to grind the laundry soap with a coarse grater or knife and select 20 g. Now mix 20 g of baking soda, onion juice and soap shavings until a homogeneous mass is obtained. The medicine is used to lubricate the nasal mucosa;
- with a cold, the following remedy quickly helps. To prepare it, you will need soap shavings, celandine juices, aloe, black radish, and honey. First, wash the radish, cut off the top, make a small depression and add 5-7 g of honey. After 6 hours, the resulting juice with honey must be drained into a container, add 5 ml of aloe juice, celandine, and 5 g of soap shavings. All ingredients must be thoroughly mixed and brought to a boil. The resulting product must be left for a day, and then used to lubricate the nasal mucosa. In addition, you can apply the mass on cotton turundas, inject them into the nasal passages for 15 minutes.
Thanks to its natural composition, laundry soap can be used for colds without fear and health risk.
