Every day we are drinking tea and get refresh with it. And we
are all familiar with the healing properties of the tea, but not many people
know the fact that used teabags can be used in various ways for different
situations.
Keep reading and you'll be surprised by how many uses, used
tea bags can have, even though most people treat them like waste.
1. Get Rid of The Redness of Your Eyes
Staring
at a computer, reading, watching, almost everything we do daily challenges our
eyes. Put a couple of teabags in cold water and let them soak for
2 minutes. Place them onto your eyelids. Let them stay there for couple of
minutes. After you put them away the redness will be gone and your eyes will
look fresher and younger.
2. Marinate Meat
In order to prevent the meat from getting hard and resilient
, marinate it with already used teabags. The tea’s aroma will make the meat’s
taste richer and it will also make it softer.
3. Clean Your Home
You can use these teabags even in your daily chores. Tea can
clean dirty mirrors, floors and even linoleum.
4. Freshen up Your Clothes And Shoes
Store the previously used and dried teabags in the closet in
order to make your clothes smell nicer. You can also put one of these bags in
each of your shoes. It will get rid of
the unpleasant smell in no time.
5. Mitigate Pain
In case you have some wound inside your mouth bite down
previously used teabag. The tea’s compounds will relieve the pain and it will
fasten the healing process.
6. Mitigate Sunburns and Get Rid of Acne
In case you have sunburns and/or acne, teabags will give you
a relief. Place already used teabag on the affected area(s) [whether is for
acne or sunburn(s)]. Teabags will bring you relief and will cool down the
affected area. It will also help you get rid of acne anywhere on your body.
7. Tea bags help with sweaty feet.
Soak your feet in lukewarm tea prepared with used tea bags
before bedtime for 15 minutes and wipe with a clean towel.
8. Tea bags can freshen your breath.
Bad breath usually is due to a number of reasons such as
eating smoking, dry mouth or other medical conditions. Bad breath is caused
primarily by the bacteria on the back of your tongue or between your teeth.
Both green and black tea can stop the growth of the bacteria. Rinsing with
strong brewed tea reduces the unpleasant smell from the mouth. Use 2 or more
used tea bags to prepare a new cup of tea. Let it come to room temperature and
the use to clean your mouth. For better result repeat daily after meals.
9. Tea bags could be used for washing dishes.
If you are allergic to soaps or other detergents. No matter
how strange it sounds, tea does have cleaning properties. Using a bunch of
re-brewed tea bags, you can easily remove dirt or grease from mirrors, windows,
floors, kitchen counters or other wooden furniture. Remember that after
cleaning, make sure to dry the surface, because tea is also a good natural dye.
10. Tea bags help with razor cuts.
Wet tea bags sooth pain from razor cuts. Use a cooled tea
bag to stop the bleeding and reduce skin damage with the helpful antioxidants
found in tea.
11. Use as Fertilizer
Tear your tea bags and discard in the trash and reserve the
damp tea leaves for composting.
Source : Taste Tea healthyfoodhouse whydontyoutrythis
