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I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards but it's very good for the hair.

Katherine Zeta-Jones revealed some surprising natural beauty tips in a recent interview. According to Katherine, a mixture of salt and honey helps maintain youthful skin. 'I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate,' she says. 'You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous. Also, I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.' Apparently strawberries and pineapples will work too - they contain 'malic acid, which serves as an astrigent and can lighten surface stains'. These sound like great ideas to me.

Her next revelation is more surprising - beer and honey conditioner for the hair. 'I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards but it's very good for the hair.'

Some other traditional beauty tips listed in the Mail Online include:

• massaging lemon juice into the scalp for dandruff. Other options - yogurt and olive oil.
• eating chili peppers and soybeans to stimulate hair growth
• rubbing chili pepper seeds on your lips for a plumped up pout
• rubbing toothpaste on blemishes to dry them out
• using vinegar and warm water to treat bruises