How to Reuse Tea Bags

Save your tea bags!

Many women have turned to drinking green tea for the taste, antioxidants and health benefits that it provides. Once your tea bags are used, however, you probably throw them away. Instead of wasting them, get an extra use out of them in the form of a soak in a tea bath. The same benefits that you can get from ingesting tea apply to your skin, too.

Things You'll Need

• Cheesecloth
• Thread

Instructions

1. Place a bowl or container in your kitchen, and toss used tea bags into the container instead of throwing them away.

2. Save up four or five dried tea bags at a time.

3. Cut a square of cheesecloth about 1 foot on a side.

4. Place the teabags in the center of the cheesecloth and draw up the sides to create a pouch.

5. Tie the pouch shut with a plain piece of string or thread. Do not use colored ribbons--the color may bleed into the bath water.

6. Add the big tea bag to your next warm bath and soak in the healthy benefits and the comforting scent of your tea bags.

Tips & Warnings

• Flavored tea bags can add wonderful scents to your bag. Beware how you mix them, however.

• Black tea offers less of a benefit, but you can still enjoy the invigorating scent and effect.