Home remedies for splinters

The conventional method of removing splinters — with a sterilized safety pin — causes some discomfort which can be avoided with the following home remedies, suggested by Mrs Jane Morgan from Leigh on Sea.

'The solution to the removal of a splinter has been used in my family for many years successfully. You simply put some soft soap (from underneath the tablet which somebody always leaves floating in the bath) on a piece of lint. Add a small amount of brown sugar (it must be brown), place over the site of the splinter and stick down firmly with a plaster. Leave overnight and, hey presto, the splinter will be on the lint in the morning

Independent confirmation of this striking home remedies for splinters comes from Mrs Mary Rosewarne from Howe who tried it out on a splinter she had had in her finger for five days. 'The following morning, as I removed the plaster from my finger, the splinter actually started "rising" like a worm coming straight up out of the ground!'