Wood ashes: 14 Secret Uses That Nobody Knows.

You can also use wooden ash to prevent flea and tick invasion or to hunt them and avoid bites. Sprinkle ash in the area in need of treatment. The bugs are not going to go on for a long time. I regularly spread them on the pieces of wood that I store behind my home. And I've already treated the court because of the fleas that infested my poor dogs.

Our reader's bonus trick

Jocelyne A big thank you to Jocelyne who kindly shared with us her trick to recycle wood ashes.

It uses them to remove traces of hair dye left on the skin:

“When I make a dye on the hair and I have traces left on the skin after the rinsing, I remove it with ash.

I wet a corner of a tea towel, soak in ashes and rub the marks on the skin. I rinse and there are no more traces. It works where nothing else works.”