5 Creative Uses for Coffee
For centuries, people across the globe have enjoyed the enticing aroma, rich flavour and energizing properties of coffee. But coffee can be used for much more than making your favourite pick-me-up beverage. Get creative with your left-over coffee grinds and turn them into something useful for your home and garden. You can even incorporate coffee grounds into your daily beauty routine for revitalized, glowing skin. Reusing coffee grounds is not only a great way to save money, it's one small way you can help the environment every day.
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Coffee grounds in the garden
You don't have to rely on chemicals to fertilize your plants and control pest in your garden. Coffee's high acidity makes it useful as an organic fertilizer on plants such as roses, azaleas, and tomatoes. Coffee grounds are also an effective deterrent for ants. See what else they can do for your garden.
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Add coffee grounds to play dough to make realistic rock fossils
Although real fossils took millions of years to form, you can create your own fossil replicas in an afternoon with this coffee play clay recipe. Kids will love the realistic rocky look that the grounds make, and you can use just about any object around the house to create your "fossil".
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Coffee grounds make a great body scrub
The exfoliating texture of coffee grounds makes for a perfect body scrub. Take your left-over morning grounds with you into the shower for a natural way to remove dead skin, leaving your skin invigorated and supple.
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Use Turkish coffee grinds to throw a fortune telling party
The art of reading Turkish coffee grinds has been passed down over centuries, but it is really quite simple and fun when you try it. Gather up your friends, brew some Turkish coffee, and take turns peeking into your future. At the very least you'll get to enjoy good company and a delicious beverage!
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10 more ways to recycle your coffee grounds
For a great roundup on other things you can use coffee grounds for, check out this list of top 10 tips. From scouring pots to staining wood, coffee grounds are a truly useful natural resource.
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Michelle Dompierre Southern - Michelle Dompierre Southern is a writer, composer, and quilter living in Toronto, Ontario. She is a Contributing Writer for Suite101.
