- Use coffee to clean your fireplace- By placing coffee grounds over ash it weighs it down. This keeps the ash from forming clouds and makes for easier removal.
- Use coffee as a dry rub – Use as a meat tenderizer to enhance flavor and make for a great steak.
- Coffee as a scalp scrub – Stimulates hair growth along with removing build up and dead skin cells. Grab a hand full of coffee grounds and rub it into the scalp and hair for a few minutes. Then wash your hair as normal.
- The caffeine increases blood circulation and anti- inflammatory properties which can reduce the appearance of dark circles and swelling.
Secret: Coffee is a natural dye. By rewetting the grounds and soaking it in with other materials such as cotton, rayon, cellophane, linen, and paper. It can create a vintage looks. It can be used to dye eggs and deepen the color of dark hair. Hint: After dying fabric wash in cold water and very mild laundry detergent to lock in the dye.