Recycling Qualities of Tea
Tea lends itself to more home application that you could imagine. They can be used to enhance your garden and home. So here are some hints on how to employ tea into making your home better.
Application of green tea in your kitchen
1. You can use green tea as a rub for your meat. To do so you must first grind tea leaves using pepper mill. After which you can combine the grinded portion with spices before rubbing over your meat.
2. You can submerge your chicken or meat in tea as it is a natural tenderizer.
3. Making use of wet tea leaves as perfume can help you get rid of unwanted odors. Even when you take garlic, rubbing wet tea leaves over your hand can deal with the odor from the garlic.
4. If your refrigerator has an unwanted smell you can place used teabags in an uncovered container so it gets rid of the odor.
5. In cooking meals like stew and many other dishes, you can spray fresh or used tea leaves for better taste.
Application in medicine and beauty
1. You can enliven your eyes if they look tired by placing on them cooled green teabags. Leave them there for few minutes and you would be surprised at the result.
2. Are you uncomfortable with your breath? Chew some amount of tea leaves to refresh your breath. You can also achieve that by adding a little amount of water to green tea for use as mouth wash.
3. If you intend having succulent skin, you can get that by adding a cup of tea into your bath water. However, make sure you rinse very well for optimum result.
4. Get your skin rejuvenated by using a mixture of grinded tea leaves with any facial cleanser to help shed off old skin layer. For a better facial look, massage the mixture gently over your face and rinse thoroughly.
5. Tea can find employment after you must have had a shave. Use it to clean shaved area for better experience.
6. Tea has anti-fungal attributes that can help in combating those funguses around your feet. To do so you can soak your feet in warm tea water. This will definitely promote healthier living as it would kill fungus found around those areas.
7. Your used teabags can help you in absorbing moisture and bad odors in your shoe. What you need do is to turn those used teabags into sachets and place them skillfully in your boots and shoes. It is a good practice, especially when you know your feet seem wet and your stockings are dirty.
8. Sunburns are not good for your skin. it is quite discomforting anytime it happens. However, you can ease the pain at the moment by applying a piece of cloth soaked in green tea over the area. This is proven to restore comfort immediately. You can also apply teabags that have been refrigerated to provide same result.
Recycle and Reuse
1. Used teabags can be used to heal cuts, bruises, and bump and razor cuts. What you need do is to get used teabags and keep storing them in an ice stray. When the tray is full you can add some water and allow it to freeze. Anytime you get bruises you only need to take out one section and apply. This will certainly bring the needed healing.
2. Infections of the eye can be taken care of using soaked tea or used teabag.
3. Have you lost a tooth accidentally or due to extraction and are finding it difficult to stop the bleeding? You can do so easily by making use of black tea. You need to soak in black tea into the bleeding area. TO do so you need to take a gentle bite on a wet teabag.
4. You can get some relief from toothache by pressing a portion of wet tea leaves around the affected area.
5. Carpet and rug cleaning for better home fragrance is of the essence. You can make use of dried tea leaves to achieve that. All you need do is to crush the leaves and make sure they get into the fibers of your carpet. After that you need to vacuum clean so as to get the best result.
6. Tea leaves can also be used to absorb odors anywhere you find uncomfortable to stay in due to the odor of the place.
PLANTS AND GARDENING
1. You can do well to gather residual green tea so as to use them to water your plants. It helps to provide rich nutrients for your home plants.
2. Your used tea leaves can also find useful employment on your outdoor plants.
3. Tea leaves and tea bags can help making for a rich composite pile for your plants.
NATURAL DYEING
1. The use of black tea for dyeing dates back to centuries. In those days, black tea was used in dyeing fabrics and making them into antiques, too. Today, they can also be used in that regard. You can use your green tea to dye your light fabrics. However, the quality of the finish will depend on how long you allowed the cloth to stay in the dye.
STAINS DUE TO TEA
1. To get rid of tea stains on your clothing. You first need to sponge the affected area with some cool water. Open up the area over a bowl and try as much as possible to get it secured around the bowl. Your next step would be to take both clothing and bowl into the bathtub or deep sink as the case may be for you. Then the next step to take requires that you allow a free fall of hot water around the stained portion. This particular section tends to be a kind of hazard to many concerned. And as such you can take off those stains by soaking it in a mixture of vinegar and water. The portion is one part vinegar and the other two parts should be water. After that you can take the clothing for proper laundering before taking to the dryer. However, you can also shake off those stains by washing in a mixture of water and vinegar solution, before laundering with the help of enzyme detergent. In addition, it has been proven that if you hang the stained clothing you have just purged outside for the sun to beat on them, the removal process is hastened.
2. Use paper towel first if you are trying to clean your carpeting after being stained. After that you need to make use of water and vinegar solution in the ration 1:2. Saturate the stained area with enough spray of the mixture before trying to blot it out again. If the stain is still there you might want to use a small amount of dishwashing liquid (which must not contain a bleaching agent or be used for washing dishes). Spray the dishwasher over the carpet and wash it again. Once the stain is gone it is advisable to rinse thoroughly the affected area(s). Hydrogen peroxide solution (3%) can be of help this area. A good move is to seek for help from the manufacturers.
3. A combination of water and baking soda can take out those tea stains left on your kitchen counter.
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