Working in the kitchen stresses your hands. Having a good hand scrub handy will make it easier for your skin. Here is a very simple recipe from Good Life Eats (check there for US measurements), which only uses sugar, salt, lemon and olive oil. Incidentally, olive oil works great for baby skin, too.

• 350 ml sugar
• 170 ml salt
• zest of 1 extra large lemon (or other citrus)
• 240 ml olive oil
• 120 ml pure lemon extract, optional

Just mix everything together and put in jars.

Many of us are wasting money and energy because we have not set the right temperature for our fridge and/or freezer. The recommended setting is between 5 and  7 °C for the fridge and about -18 °C for the freezer.