If you recently participated in Lemonade Day or helped your kids with their own lemonade stand, you just might have a few extra lemons at your disposal. Here are a few quick suggestions for what to do with those leftover lemons.

Great Uses for Lemons Other Than Eating or Drinking

This list would be too easy if we just gave you a recipes for lemonade and lemon bars. Instead, we wanted to focus on uses for lemons that don’t involve consumption. Freshen your day or add some style to hair with one of nature’s most versatile fruit, the humble lemon.

Cleaning Power of Lemons

Lemon as a cleaning product is pretty well known. But lemon can do more for household chores than offer a pleasant scent. Mix the juice of a few lemons with a couple gallons of water and mop your floor. While this isn’t intended to disinfect your floor the smell of lemon actually deters cockroaches and other insects. A clean floor is definitely free from bugs.

Mixed with a little bit of ammonia and water, lemon juice actually makes one of the most powerful, and affordable, cleaners available. The resulting product, recipes for which can be found online, disinfects and leaves a pleasant aroma. Lemon juice is often touted as a secret weapon in the battle against grease spots and germs.

Air Freshener

Annoyed by the lingering smell of leftovers in your refrigerator? Want to cut the odor in your gym bag? Add a bit of zest to the inside of your car? Why the answer is lemons, of course!

While there are a lot of complicated or involved lemon air freshener recipes online, we went with something a little easier. Take some lemon rinds and place them into a Ziploc bag. Perforate the bag with a few small holes and BANG! instant air freshener. Put your portable bag of summer underneath your car seat or in your gym locker or bag. Though dried lemon rinds won’t spoil into a foul smelling goop, you will still want to replace them every week or so.

Beauty Shop All Star

Lemons have long proved themselves to be invaluable to anyone looking for a new look. Adding lemon juice to your hair can accelerate the sun's natural lightening abilities. The nice thing about lemon juice is that the change is very gradual so you can find the exact shade you want. One drawback is that lemon juice highlights are temporary so treatment would need to be continued to maintain the effect. However, the result is a look that's more organic than powerful bleaches and dyes.