We tea lovers love our cup of tea, no doubt. We find is refreshing, invigorating and uplifting; however tea and tea bags are actually good and useful for a number of other things as well and can fix your tired eyes, an upset stomach and even infuse new life into some of your plants!

Tea for Tired Eyes

Do you sometimes come home feeling drained with tired, droopy, itchy eyes, even sometimes achy or reddened eyes? Well for this particular problem, you don’t even need a fresh tea bag; one that has already been used will also do; just make sure that you did not add milk and sugar to that particular cup in which the tea bag was used.  Or you can use a fresh tea bag that has been moistened sufficiently. The tea bag (fresh or used) should be refrigerated and then put on closed eyes for instant relief from eye tiredness, puffiness and that awful gritty feeling that one gets at times.

Other skin irritations such as sores, rashes, sunburns, bee stings, or allergic reactions can also be soothed by using tea bags by refrigerating them and then applying them topically.

Tea as a Deodorant

Does your microwave oven smell rather like that fish you recently steamed? Or does it perhaps have a lingering smell of garlic from the last exotic meal that you rustled up? Well a tea bag can help here as well. Take water in a cup and add a tea bag, and then heat it for a couple of minutes. Let it stand in the oven without opening the microwave, and let the fumes permeate inside. You can also use teabags inside the fridge, where it acts as a sort of odor-eater. Flavored tea bags (vanilla, cinnamon, lime etc) work even better.

Tea Leaves as Manure

If you use loose leaf tea, you can of course use them as manure. You can even leave your used tea bags to steep some more in water and then pour that water into your potted greens, which seems to encourage their growth and causes them to thrive.

Tea can act as a natural antiseptic for the body and is soothing for a number of common ailments as well.

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