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Forget expensive lotions and potions, a quick trip to the kitchen could alleviate many of your summer holiday aches, pains and beauty disasters.

Simple products such as butter, potatoes, ice cubes and milk could help a variety of ailments including dry hair, headaches, insect bites and muscular discomfort, according to travelling phramacist Dave Harcombe.

Simple everyday items from the fridge, such as butter, milk and yoghurt, can help a variety of ailments

The expert, who works with Silver Travel Advisor, said: 'Summer holiday aches, pains and beauty disasters can often be cured or alleviated by a quick trip to the fridge.'

He rounds up his top tips for holidaymakers this summer...

Ice ice baby

Ice is the ultimate cure-all, it can alleviate muscle soreness, itches and insect bites, reduce bruising, help stop bleeding and relieve pain and swelling.

Even removing splinters becomes easier and less painful after numbing the area with an ice cube.

Sucking on an ice-cube will also relieve the pain of tooth-ache.

Make a cheap and effective ice pack by dropping ice cubes into a rubber glove. 

Not just for toast: Butter can relieve ailments including smelly odours from skin and dry hair

Beat the burn 

Applying neat, fridge-cooled gin eases sunburn and soothes the skin. 

Cheaper alternatives include natural yoghurt, cold potato slices, cucumber slices and cold tea bags.

For heat exhaustion and sunburn drink cool water. Don't gulp. Little and often is best.

Sting relief 

Place a slice of cool leek, cucumber or raw onion onto sting, cover with bandage and leave for a few hours.

You'd better believe it's butter 

Rub a knob of butter into hands to remove fishy smells after cooking, then wash off with soap and hot water.

Or massage butter into dry hair and cover with a plastic bag or shower cap for a soft, silky finish.

Cool cure for hot heads 

Cooled raw potato slices applied to the brow are an instant headache relief.

Just a hiccup 

Stop hiccups by sucking a cold lemon slice or an ice cube. Or try drinking small quick sips of ice cold water.

Take a leek: The cheap vegetable can help to reduce soreness from an insect sting

Got milk? 

Dip cotton wool balls in milk and use as a face cleanser.

Egg on your face 

Add an egg yolk to cooled mayonnaise for an effective face mask.

Breathe easy 

For lingering garlic smells chew on sprigs of parsley straight from the salad box of the fridge.

Yoghurt cures 

Yoghurt is one of the greatest and healthiest food aids. Natural yoghurt containing live acidophilus culture is an antibiotic, an immunity booster and helps clear up travellers' diarrhoea, it also soothes ulcers and helps clear up yeast infections.

Make up in the fridge 

When nail polish becomes cloggy and thick, simply put it fridge and the varnish returns to its best in a few minutes. Lipsticks kept in the fridge last longer and are easier to use too.