Using Green Tea Around the House - 5 Great Ideas

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Using Green Tea Around the House - 5 Great Ideas

 

After you've absorbed the health benefits from your cup of green

tea, you'll be amazed at how many more uses there are for those

soggy tea-leaves! No need to throw them in the trash or compost: you

can use them to feed your garden plants--green tea is high in

nitrogen--and they will even ward off pests and insects.

 

Find five more super ideas here:

 

Green tea is especially wonderful as a deodorant that absorbs

offensive odors.

 

1. Yoga Mats. In the hot, humid areas of Thailand, Burma, and other

Asian countries, people sleep on straw mats. This straw is cool and

comfortable, but people do perspire. It is quite common in these

areas for straw mats to be washed in tubs of water to which tea has

been added. The tea works as a powerful deodorizer, leaves a fresh

scent, and can even infuse the straw with a delicate sage color. You

can use green tea to clean other washable surfaces, such as yoga

mats and air mattresses.

 

2. Litter Boxes. Used green tea leaves are wonderful in kitty litter

as an extra boost for diffusing odors, and they help deter fleas

from both cats and dogs.

 

3. Pet Beds. Sprinkle dried used green tea leaves on your pet's

favorite pillow or bed. Great in doghouses or anywhere troublesome

pet odors occur. If you can afford the extravagance, loose leaf

gunpowder tea is great for dogs to roll around in. The crunching of

the pellets releases a wonderful aroma, and helps to scratch

wherever dogs have an itch. The pellets help give your dog a more

pleasant smell.

 

4. Refrigerators. Place used green tea bags or leaves in a small

bowl, uncovered, in your refrigerator to help absorb odors from

onions and garlic for about three days. NO need to throw them out

even then, just sprinkle the old leaves around your ferns,

rosebushes, or other plants.

 

5. Kitchen Odors. Preparing fish? Cutting up garlic? Rid your hands

of the fish or garlic oils by rubbing them with wet green tea

leaves, an instant deodorizer. The leaves are also great for

deodorizing and cleaning the pan in which you cook fish or garlic.

 

**Note**

You can in fact, use the used tea bags in your plat soil and use it

as compost to feed the plants!

That tip is from a friend of mine