Top 20 Useful Ways to Recycle and Reuse those Old Tea Bags

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11. Make Your Roses Bloom

You don’t need to buy expensive rose fertilizer to have tons of beautiful roses; all you need is some tea. Open your used tea bags and sprinkle the tea around your rosebushes, then cover with mulch or hoe into the ground. When you water your roses, the nutrients from the tea will be soaked up by your roses, which will spur their growth and result in beautiful flowers. Roses simply love the tannic acid that tea leaves contain.

12. Refresh Tired Eyes

Did you wake up with puffy eyes and you don’t have a cucumber handy? Tea bags can come to your rescue! Soak two tea bags in hot (not boiling) water and place them over your closed eyes. Relax for about 20 minutes. The tannins that are in tea leaves reduce eye puffiness and help to relieve tired, overworked eyes.

13. Relieve Razor Burn

When you forget to replace your razor, you sometimes end up with some nasty razor burn. Relieve those irritating cuts and burns by applying a used, wet tea bag to affected area. Allow to dry naturally, and then replace that razor blade!

14. Prepare a Pot for Planting

When you are preparing a new pot for a plant, put a few used tea bags at the very bottom of the pot. This not only helps with drainage, they keep dirt from falling out the hole in the bottom, and they also leech nutrients back into the soil.

15. Conditioning Treatment for Dry Hair

If you have dry, brittle hair and want some of your natural shine back, try tea. Mix a quart (1 liter) of warm tea (no sugar or lemon, please) and use as a rinse after you shampoo. Find out other natural healthy packs for beautiful hair.

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