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Everyday Uses For Tea Bags
Deodorize your feet.
Boil three or four tea bags in one quart of water for ten minutes. Add enough cold water to make a comfortable soak. Soak your feet for twenty to thirty minutes, then dry and apply food powder. Do this twice a day until odor is under control. Then continue twice a week to keep odor under control. Tannin, which can be found in tea, is a drying agent.Dye graying white fabrics.
If Clorox bleach won't whiten a graying white garment, soak the item in hot, strong brewed tea until it is a shade darker than you desire. Then rinse in cold water and let dry.Highlight brown hair.
Rinse red or brown hair with brewed tea for golden highlights.Relieve sunburn pain.
Pat your sunburn with wet tea bags.Accelerate the germination of grass seeds.
Mix two tablespoons of cold, strong brewed tea into each pound of seed, cover, and set in the refrigerator for five days. Before sowing, spread the seed to dry for a day or two on newspapers on the garage or basement floor.Deodorize stuffy rooms.
Mix one quart brewed tea and four tablespoons lemon juice, strain through a coffee filter, and store in empty spray bottles.Soothe a sore throat or laryngitis.
Drink brewed tea with lemon juice or honey.Invigorate house plants.
Water ferns and other houseplants once a week with a weak, tepid brewed tea.Polish black lacquer.
Wash black lacquer pieces with strong brewed tea, then wipe dry with a soft cloth.Help relieve diarrhea.
Drink plenty of tea and eat toast. The tannin in tea is reported to be helpful in cases of diarrhea, while its liquid replaces fluids lost by the body.Soothe tired eyes.
Place tea bags soaked in cool water or lukewarm water over your eyes for at least fifteen minutes.Soothe a burn.
Apply wet tea bags directly to the burn, or secure in place with gauze.Stop gums from bleeding after having a tooth pulled.
Press a cool, moist tea bag against the cavity with your finger.Fix a broken fingernail.
Cut a piece of gauze paper from a tea bag to fit the nail, coat with clear nail polish, and press gently against the break. Then cover with colored nail polish.Clean varnished woodwork.
Cold tea is a good cleaning agent for any kind of woodwork.Tenderize meat.
Add equal parts strong brewed tea and double strength beef stock to a tough pot roast or stew. The tannin in tea is a natural meat tenderizer.
