After you use a tea bag to make yourself a cup of tea, what do you do with it ? Chances are you throw it away. What else would you do with it, right? Well, actually there are a few things you can do with a used tea bag. Here are Sabaidi Tea Co.’s top 5 uses for used tea bags.

1. Make Another Cup

While this works best with whole leaf tea bags, really, you can reuse any tea bag. After you make a cup of tea with your tea bag, take the tea bag out of the water, hang it on your Tea Stand (if you are a Sabaidi Tea drinker) or put it on a plate or other clean location, and drink your tea. When your cup of tea is finished, use your tea bag to make a second, third, fourth, or possibly fifth cup of tea. A standard tea bag will only give you 2 cups really, but a whole leaf tea bag can give you up to5 cups throughout the day depending on how strong you like your tea. Just remember, each additional use, steep your tea bag for increasing increments until you receive a desired taste. For the last cup you may want to keep the tea bag in your cup.

2. Reduce Puffy Eyes

After you make yourself a cup of tea, drain out a majority of the tea so that it is not dripping but still damp, and place in the refrigerator. For this, really you need two bags, so keep the tea bag in the refrigerator until you make yourself a second cup of tea. When you have two, you can use the now damp, cool, tea bags to reduce puffy eyes.. Through most tea bags will work, certain teas such as Rose will work best, as rose water is known for its benefits to skin, especially if it is mixed with green tea which contains anti-oxidants.

3. Body Scrub

Another skin care benefit, Tea can be used as a body scrub. After you finish your tea, open the tea bag and put the tea on a plate or in a bowl (Really, whole leaf tea bags are what you need here). Ideally when you shower, rub the damp tea on your skin. The slightly abrasive leaves will help to exfoliate your skin. Green tea works best as the anti-oxidants in the green tea will provide additional skin care benefits.

4. Fertilizer

If you have potted plants, or a garden, the tea in your used tea bags works as a fertilizer. Tea is a leaf, and Herbal teas are herbs; Organic Matter (even if they are not “Organically Grown”, they are still organic. If there was anything dangerous to your plants in the teas, you could not drink them). While “All Natural” whole leaf teas and herbs work best, any tea, including tea dust and oil flavored teas will also work.

5. Cooking

With the heart of conservation in the form of “reuse,” you can reuse your teas as spices in cooking. While certain teas, such as Lemongrass and Pandan, will work best to help flavor your foods when cooking, you can use most teas; remember Tea is a leaf. Experiment and see what works best for you. Please leave comments here at Sabaidi Health to share your experiences.

Also at Sabaidi Health:

Reusing your Tea Bags
Top 5 Herbal Teas

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