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Eight Exclusive Ideas to Reuse Your Tea Bags

If you are a tea lover, then you must have lots of tea bags. Have you ever thought of reusing these tea bags?

Swati Sharma
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If you are a tea lover, then you must have lots of tea bags. Have you ever thought of reusing these tea bags? Wouldn’t it be nice if you can use these tea bags in some practical ways instead of throwing them in the bin? Today, we will inform you of a few astonishing and valuable things you can do with used tea bags. 

Ways to Reuse Tea Bags:

Give Fresh Life to your Carpets:

You can use the tea leaves of a teabag to give new life to your carpets. Dry the tea bag and keep aside the leaves after getting it dry, then mix the leaves with a good amount of baking soda. Now your mixture is ready to spread over the carpet to remove the spot and smell. Tea leaves and baking soda will absorb dirt and odor. You can check your carpet after few hours; it will look much fresher than earlier. 

Use as Face Scrub:

You can use the tea residue as a face scrubber as it shrinks large pores and provides a healthy glow. You need to mix one tablespoon of honey in one bag of tea leaves to make a scrub paste. Gently rub the paste onto your face in circular form. Wait for 5 minutes, and then wash your face with lukewarm water. 

Relaxation to your Eyes:

You can use tea bags for the puffed eyes. It would be best if you used it often to have visible effects. 

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Relaxation to Eyes

Give Flavor to Meat:

Marinate the meat with used tea bags. Tea flavor adds sweetness and savory taste to your dishes. The best flavor comes out in barbeque meat. 

Polish Wood Surfaces:

To give a nice shine to your wood floors and furniture, you can use weak tea. Put a couple of used tea bags in warm water to make the weak tea. Then apply it to the wooden floor and furniture with a soft cloth. Your wood will start shining in no time. 

Clean your Glass: 

To clean your mirrors, glasses, or any other glass surface. You need to rub the used tea bags on the surface and then wipe them with a dry cloth. Your glasses will give you a streak-free shine. 

Duct the Onion Hands:

Are you also anxious about the onion smell in hand after cutting the onions? Then no worry, you can rub the used tea bags on your hands and then can do regular hand wash. There will be no odor will come from your hands. 

Water your Garden:

You can put tea water in the garden to make the garden fresher. You can spread the teabag content in your garden to feed your plants. You can put the tea bag residue in making compost. 

Restore Shine to your Hair:

You can wash your hair with used tea bags water to shine and softness to your hair and then do regular shampoo and conditioner. Your hair will indeed say thanks after this treatment. 

You can save your money by applying used tea bag techniques instead of dumping these bags into the bin. We hope after knowing the above tips, you will not throw your used tea bags like that. You will surely make one or two benefits out of it.

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