Do not throw away used coffee grounds. Use it at home and in your garden

Do you also throw used coffee grounds in the trash? Well, you are making a big mistake. Many of us have heard that coffee grounds have several useful uses but few actually use them. But did you know that used tea will do you a similar service?

Coffee grounds are ideal for skin care and there are plenty of uses you can help your skin. Make your own coffee grounds scrub. Here is how. Add olive oil and a teaspoon of brown sugar to dried grounds, mix everything together and put it in a glass and use it as a regular skin scrub.

Homemade coffee beauty products

A face mask made of coffee grounds is also great. It refreshes your skin and makes you look younger. Mix 2 tablespoons of coffee grounds with one teaspoon of honey. Add a lemon juice and apply to your face. Leave it on for 15 minutes.

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Coffee grounds absorb odours

Coffee grounds absorb unpleasant odours in your refrigerator. Put grounds on a saucer and place it on a shelf inside your refrigerator. Do not forget that coffee grounds are used to polish surfaces. Wrap a spoon or two of coffee grounds with a damp cotton cloth and polish a dirty stove with it.

Coffee grounds fertilizer

Coffee grounds will come handy if you want to fertilize your indoor plants . Put coffee grounds in a glass and pour water it. Place it in a dry and cool place. After about a week you will have a wonderful liquid that you can use to water your plants.

Tea leaves

Tea leaves are used similarly. You can use tea to polish furniture, mirrors and glasses. Wet tea leaves are also used to clean cutlery and surfaces covered with rust. Put teal leaves on a sponge and polish as usual. Tannin in tea leaves increases acidity of soil so, you can used them to give a boost to roses, azaleas, rhododendrons and ferns. Tea leaves and coffee grounds should not be thrown away.

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