DEAR HELOISE: Fidgety kids and crying babies can make an airplane trip a nightmare. With summer vacations coming up, have you got any hints for parents of little fliers? Is it appropriate to offer to help?
-- Henry in the
Texas Hill Country
DEAR READER: It's all right to offer to watch someone's child when the parent needs to go to the restroom or stretch their legs, but entertaining a child is really the parent's job, and some don't want strangers doing that. However, there are a number of things available to entertain children:
• Coloring books and crayons.
• Use finger puppets to tell a story.
• Mini board games.
• Read to a child.
DEAR HELOISE: I work in a salon that caters to wealthy and influential patrons who can afford the services we provide. However, there are a few secrets that any woman can do at home:
• Dilute shampoo and conditioners: Pour 1/3 water into 2/3 product. If you shampoo every day or every other day, you don't need to lather your hair more than once.
• Olive oil: Pour olive oil into your hand (about the size of a silver dollar) and massage through your hair. Put a towel around your pillow and sleep with the oil on your hair overnight. Next morning, shampoo the oil out, and use a conditioner rinse. Your hair will feel softer and less dry.
• Dry skin: Mash an avocado (minus the skin and seed), then add three drops of olive oil and mix. Apply to your face, then lie down and relax for an hour. After one hour, wash off your skin.
• Mature skin: Use vitamin E oil where your skin is the driest (around the eyes, throat, etc.), or use at night on the throat and neck.
• Never sleep in your makeup, and drink plenty of water.
-- Susette N. in New York
DEAR HELOISE: I found a way to avoid the mess bacon creates. I save the newspaper, fold it three times, wrap a paper towel around the newspaper and lay it over the bacon when I microwave it. When done, I remove the paper towel and newspaper, which absorbed the grease, and throw it away.
-- June B., Abilene, Texas
DEAR READER: I do the same thing, but without the newspaper, because there is a possibility, if using high heat, that it could ignite.
Send a money- or time-saving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Antonio, Texas 78279-5000; fax to (210) 435-6473; or email
MovieStyle on 06/30/2017