What Else Do People Use Tea For?

By Tuong Pham

Well, you have heard so much about tea drink and all of its wonders and interesting things. But now, let's switch gear a bit and talk about other uses of tea drink. Tea has many wonderful aspects, so what I'm about to tell you is probably the practical side of tea leaves.

One of the major use of tea leaves besides being brewed and drank is the fact that they can absorb the smell and fragrance very fast. This is disadvantage if you try to drink the tea. If you are a tea drinker and you are not storing tea the right way, the next time you open the lid, a weird smell would punch right to your nose that make you wondering what happend to the fresh tea leaves I just bought three weeks ago...?. That's a very bad thing. But you can use the tea leaves' nature to your advantage. That means you can use tea leaves to remove any smell or odor that you don't want around the house. Not fresh tea leaves, but used tea leaves. You would just probably throw them away, so why don't you use those for something else. Stretch your dollar a little further.

Two suggestions would be the refrigerator and the shoes. Almost everyone has a refrigerator and more than once when you open the refrigerator, you can smell the sandwiches or the half-rotten apple that your spouse of your children ( or roomates) left from last week. That's very uncomfortable. Sometimes, a little thing like an orange juice spill would make the refrigerator smell unpleasant. Well, you can reduce the unpleasant smell by placing a container or a open bag of used tea leaves in your refrigerator. But you should remember to remove the tea after 2-3 days. Don't leave one container of tea too long in the frige, replace the tea whenever you finish brewing the next cup of tea.

Now talk about shoes. You can apply the same thing. But this time, you should use dried tea leaves, not used one. This is common sense, the shoe gives unpleasant smell because of the moisture of the feet or outside ( like the rain). It wouldn't make sense if you then put wet tea leaves into shoe. But if you can leave a tiny bag of dried tea leaves into you shoe for a night, the tea can absorb the odor and leaving your shoes smelling fresh ( and a bit grassy like you just walk on a meadow, but it's still much more pleasant than the "fragrance" from your son's shoes after he had soccer practice...).

Other thing you can do is to use tea leaves to clean the dishes. If you want to try something more interesting, you can take a tea bath. You can just throw some tea leaves into your hot bath just to see if it's anything different. One thing for sure that you will acquire a somewhat grassier fragrance. Who knows, your family would just think you just bought a new perfume...

Mr. Pham is tea enthusiast. He has created Nature Healthy Tea to share his knowledge on this healthy drink. More information on black tea.