Burn a Bay Leaf in Your House and Watch What Happens (6 Uses Mexican Mothers Swear By)

Take one dry bay leaf tonight, lay it on a clay plate, touch the tip to a match, and watch. That smell is the whole video. It is not magic and it is not medicine. It is the smell of every Mexican kitchen in December, and my mother used that one jar of hoja de laurel six ways. 📖 My mother's whole way of running a house is written down in one book, The Old Mexican Way: https://oldmexicanway.com None of this is your fault. Nobody taught you. My mother never bought a can of air freshener in her life. The 6: 1. Burning one leaf, the right way (and what the viral video left out) 2. In the pot, and why you count them in and count them out 3. In the flour, rice and bean jars, and the step that actually matters 4. The roaches, and the viral "remedy" I have to stop you on 5. La olla de olor, the pot that makes the house smell like Christmas 6. The jar itself: why yours smells like nothing Safety, said plainly: one leaf at a time, on a plate that cannot burn, and never walk away from it. Never near a baby, a person with asthma, or a pet bird. Never take the battery out of a smoke alarm. Never leave a simmer pot on when you leave or go to sleep. Count the leaves into the pot and count them out. And never make or use the viral roach paste made from mosquito coils or insecticide: it is poison at a child's height. A bay leaf does not treat stress, sleep or blood pressure, and I will not tell you it does. It makes a house smell like a home.