Why oil is like toothpaste, sometimes
July 20th, 2010by Dr Richard Farr
At some point in the recent past, you have probably found yourself squeezing the last little bit out of a toothpaste tube, or standing a shampoo bottle upside-down in an effort to get at the dregs. Another good trick is to hold an exhausted can of shaving foam under the hot tap; the resulting expansion of the gases inside makes it work one last time, and gets us on our way to work looking adequately groomed.
- tubefix - no idea whether it works, comments are welcome…
We may be experts on logistics and planning, but we all run out of toiletries from time to time. At times like these, it’s interesting to see just how small a quantity of toothpaste we really need to brush our teeth, and the same is true of shampoo and so on. When these things are in short supply, we managed to get by with relatively little.
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