• Lemon juice is valued in the home as a stain remover, and a slice of lemon dipped in salt can be used to clean copper-bottomed cooking pots. Lemon juice has been used for bleaching freckles.• Lemon peel oil is much used in furniture polishes, detergents, soaps and shampoos. It is important in perfume blending and especially in colognes.
• Petitgrain oil (up to 50 per cent citral), is distilled from the leaves, twigs and immature fruits of the lemon tree in West Africa, North Africa and Italy.
• Lemon peel, dehydrated, is marketed as cattle feed.
• Lemonade, when applied to potted plants, has been found to keep their flowers fresh longer than normal.
• Lemon wood is fine-grained, compact, and easy to work. In Mexico, it is carved into chessmen, toys, small spoons, and other articles.
• Lemon juice is widely known as a diuretic, antiscorbutic, astringent, and febrifuge.
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