How to Alternative Ways to Utilize Leftover Green Tea by Kate Johns

It is super easy to utilize your leftover green tea. You can even store your leftover green tea leaves and reuse them also. Green tea is the sweet elixir of life in my book! Green tea can be used around the house to clean, deodorize, make a room smell great, take away your acne and heal your wounds. Once you finish drinking that green tea, don't throw out the tea leaves and use the leftover liquid on the bottom of that teacup.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Any green tea bag will do.
• Boiling water to seep the tea

1. Just how do you go about reusing green tea bags? And besides, why would you want to? Besides drinking green tea for all its great antioxidant properties, you can reuse the liquid and the tea bags to do almost everything. I clean my kitchen everyday with the liquid leftover on the bottom of my tea cup. And it works, my kitchen looks the best it ever has---it sparkles and smells great!

2. I take the tea-bag from my teacup every day and run the tea bag under some warm water. Then I squirt the liquid all over the counter tops and the stove top. It gets the kitchen squeaky clean. Just imagine what it is doing to your insides! I scrub the stove, the outside of the refrigerator, the counter tops, the microwave. It works! And it isn't hazardous to your appliances or our eco-system.

3. You can use old green tea leaves as a deodorizer and yes it actually works. Take the tea leaves out of the bag and place in a container in a room. It freshens up that room. Place a tea bag in a container in a room by the carpet and it will freshen the carpet. It even takes that horrible stinky smell out of older shoes and sneakers.

4. Take the tea leaves, mash them up, place in a small amount of water and Viola! You will have an acne medication. Green tea acts as an astringent as well as an antioxidant that can keep away certain cancers. Put some of the mixture on your acne and it takes it away. It also helps heal cuts by applying this mixture on your sores. You can even use it to soothe dry skin.

5. Green tea also wards off some skin cancers. Just apply the soothing liquid directly to the area and it will aid in taking the skin cancer away. Green tea also helps with burns as aloe does and it helps soothe sunburns. You can fill your tub with green tea that has been brewed to regular water and sit in lukewarm water and soak the sting out of your bug bites, and your aching sunburned skin.

Tips & Warnings

• Don't brew the tea and then apply it to your skin, wait for it to cool.
• Green tea bags and the liquid are cheaper than buying household cleaning products.
• Just use a cloth or a paper towel to clean your kitchen with green tea.