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COFFEE GROUNDS IN THE GARDEN:
1. Pest Repellent
Sprinkle used coffee grounds around your plants to protect them against garden pests like ants, slugs, and snails.
2. Add to your Compost
If you don't have any uses for your coffee grounds right now, throw them in your compost! Coffee grounds make excellent "green" matter, being rich in nitrogen. Also, worms may be attracted to your compost with the coffee too! But be careful about the amounts of grounds you throw in your compost, so you don't throw off the "green" to "brown" matter. (I've been adding some coffee grounds to my compost).
3. Color Change in Your Hydrangeas
Hydrangeas are affected by the changes in the soil's pH balance. Adding coffee grounds to the soil reduces the pH and changes pink flowers into blue flowers.
COFFEE GROUNDS AROUND THE HOUSE:
4. Absorb Food Odors
Like baking soda, coffee grounds can be used for absorbing food odors in the refrigerator and freezer. Fill a open container with the grounds and place in the back of the fridge and leave them there for a couple of weeks. You can then replace the grounds and put the old ones on your compost!
5. As a dye
Don't you hate it when you spill coffee on your white shirt and it leaves that golden yellow stain?!? Well turn the idea around and use it to dye Easter eggs with Easter coming up! Or even dye a shirt or yarn with it!
6. Homemade Candles
Ok, who seriously doesn't love the smell of coffee?? Whether you like the taste or not, pretty much everyone loves the smell! Why not take the old coffee grounds and use them in a all-natural candle?!?
Here a link for DIY Coffee Candles!
7. Fight Odor on Your Hands
After chopping garlic, onions, or opening a can of tuna and you want to get that smell off your hands? Take the coffee grounds and wash your hands with them and it will get rid of the smell!
COFFEE GROUNDS For HEALTH AND BEAUTY:
8. Exfoliate Your Skin
Coffee grounds are great for exfoliating your skin! Add used coffee grounds to a little bit of warm water or your favorite all-natural coconut oil for an amazing body scrub! Scrub your body head to toe with the scrub to get rid of all those dead skin cells! Here's a recipe for Coconut Coffee Body Scrub Cubes!
9. Facial
Just as it works for a body scrub, coffee is also great as a facial! Use coffee grounds, honey, unsweetened cocoa powder and milk or yogurt, (I'm gonna try goat's milk) for the perfect all-natural facial.
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| Source 10. Coffee Soap Make a coffee soap that will leave your skin smelling amazing! Here's a simple recipe for a simple coffee grounds soap. 11. Coffee For Your Hair Wash your hair with coffee grounds to eliminate residue and oil build-up. Before shampooing, grab a handful of old coffee grounds and massage into your hair. 12. Cellulite Treatment Poor diet, frequent or extended periods of sitting, smoking, or genetic predisposition – cellulite has many causes and for every cause there are at least a dozen “cures” which may or may not actually work. Well, here’s one that does: used coffee grounds. A simple mixture of used coffee grounds and warm water will do the trick! Use the scrub twice per week for 10min. on any areas affected by cellulite. Results should start to show within 4 weeks of steady treatment. There you have it, 12 different ways to use your old coffee grounds! So next time you make a pot of coffee, don't throw them in the garbage. Save them and reuse them! Have an AmAzInG Monday everyone!!! |
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Going to try this as an exfoliater!
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