Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Amazing Ways to Use Coffee Grounds!!!


If you are like me and you drink alot of coffee then you have plenty of leftover, used coffee grounds after making a pot delicious Hawaiian Coconut coffee. I hadn't really thought about re-using them until the other day when I thought "What a waste"! So I decided to compile a list of different ways to re-use the grounds. Feel free to drop me a note if you try any of these and let me know how they worked! Of course in order to get used coffee grounds you need to buy coffee, in which case you can visit http://www.coffeebeanery.com/ for all your coffee needs!


1. Dull, hard hair? Rub left-over coffee grounds through wet hair and rinse. If you have brown hair the grounds add highlights!


2. Instead of buying expensive exfoliants try massaging used coffee grounds over your skin and rinse. It makes an excellent exfoliant!


3. After bathing your dog rub coffee grounds through your dogs fur. They are said to repell fleas..


4. Mix coffee grounds into the soil of bait worms to keep them alive.


5. Having issues with neighborhood cats using your garden as a litter box? Spread used coffee grounds and orange peels through out the garden to keep them away. It also fertilizes your soil and helps plants to thrive.


6. Used coffee grounds also can deodorize your freezer. Set a bowl with the grounds in the freezer to remove bad smells.


7. Coffee grounds repell ants!


8. Don't like the smell of your hands after chopping an onion? Rub coffee grounds on them to get rid of the smell.


9. Wet coffee grounds also remove furniture scratches.


10. You can grow mushrooms on old coffee grounds.

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