New And Creative Uses For Green Tea Leaves

It has been discovered that the antibacterial properties of Green Tea Leaves work just as well when used externally, as when taken internally, and manufacturers are taking advantage of this new knowledge. The sanitizing benefits of Green Tea is now available within commercial cleaning products on your local supermarket shelf. If you haven't noticed it in that aisle before, just take a little stroll through your local grocery store, and you will be amazed at exactly how many everyday cleaning products now contain it.

The good news is that you can purchase ready made Green Tea cleaning products or you can also make your own. The recipe for creating your own Green Tea Solution is actually really quite easy.

1. Simply steep one cup of green tea leaves in one quart of boiling water for fifteen minutes.

2. Drain off the liquid and store it in your refrigerator till you are ready to use it.

This solution has many uses as an environmentally friendly, antibacterial cleaning spray. Simply apply the spray to counter tops, tables, sinks, tubs, or stoves, and then easily wipe off excess moisture with a damp cloth. The Green Tea solution will kill bacteria as it cleans. Note: This basic Green Tea solution can also be used as an effective gargle to eliminate bad breath and kill the bacteria that cause it.

Green Tea is also an environmentally friendly product! Green tea is now being trial run by scientists at Ventana Research, Pace Technologies and the University of Arizona as an environmentally safe cleaning product for computer hard drives. These computer parts were cleaned in the past with very toxic, and expensive to dispose of chemicals, but Green Tea may be able to provide a much safer solution for future generations to come!

Don't throw away those used Green Tea Leaves that were created when you made your cleaning solution. They are still going to come in very useful within your household.

First sun dry the leaves by placing them in a shallow pan or baking dish and setting them out on your patio or deck on a nice warm day. If it is winter they can still be dried by placing them in front of a sunny window or in some other warm area of your home.

Green tea Leaves have the amazing ability to absorb odors and bacteria into it much like household baking soda is known to. So you can use these dry Green Tea Leaves where ever you might otherwise have used baking soda to eliminate household odors.

These tea leaves can be placed in a bowl and set inside of the refrigerator or freezer to absorb the odors that accumulate there. They can be sprinkled on carpets, left to sit for ten to fifteen minutes while they absorb any unpleasant carpet odors, and then vacuumed up. The Green Tea Leaves can even be sprinkled into your cat's litter pan to eliminate any unwelcome aromas that emanate out from that direction.

These dried green tea leaves can also be used to replace other types of potpourri. Simply set them out in a decorative dish to add charm and aroma to any room in your house. They will quietly absorb unpleasant household scents while they decorate your home. During summer months these leaves can also be burned like incense to fragrance a room or to create an effective mosquito repellent.

Dried Green Tea Leaves placed within small clothes squares and tied into sachets that can be placed anywhere within the home where odors accumulate. Dresser drawers, closets, sneakers and shoes, you choose where there is a need in your home to place these sachets. Then let them work to help keep the unwanted household aromas in your home at bay.

These Green Tea sachets can even be popped into the bathtub, foot bath, or sink to provide antibacterial and anti-fungal cleansing properties while you bathe, wash your face, or soak your feet.

Moistened Green Tea Leaves held captive within a warm cloth can be used as an effective face scrub to help eliminate or reduce the symptoms of acne.

Green Tea is definitely not just for drinking anymore!

You know that you don't do it as often as you should - it is a job that just seems to get set to the side time and time again.........

Well it's time to stop putting this task off, it is definitely time to clean the teapot and there are no longer any ifs, ands, or buts about it! Your teapot is dependable and indispensable yet just doesn't seem to get the respect that it truly deserves. Despite the old teapot getting used time and time again it just somehow never manages to get the deep cleaning that it should. Instead it just gets pushed to the side till it is needed once again.

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Used as a powerful herbal medicine in the East for thousands of years, Green Tea is now becoming much more popular a little closer to home, and to the cupboards and shelves of people who live in the U.S.A, Britain, and Canada.

There are a number of very good reasons for the increasing popularity of Green Tea in the West. It can extend your life expectancy, protect you from cancer, increase your heart health and protect you from stroke. These are just a few of the health benefits that sipping green tea daily can provide.....Read Full Article.

Those few extra pounds can creep on pretty easily but to take them off again is just plain old hard. Losing weight is just not as easy as gaining it.

The body is naturally programed to recognize changes within it and to try to keep those changes from occurring. Unfortunately, weight loss is one of those items that the body views as potentially harmful, so something that it is going to put up a fight against allowing to occur.

Weight gain is usually a slow or gradual process over a lengthy period of time so the body does not view it as a threat to it's health. In fact the body happily just keeps storing that extra fat for future security if leaner years should occur in the future.....Read Full Article.

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