10 Uses for coffee grounds

I love coffee. Years ago, I used to drink 5 cups a day, today, just one. One day I was cleaning out the coffee grounds from the reusable filter to run down the disposal, and I wondered if there could be a use for the used grounds?

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1. Caffeine prevents hair loss

Washing your hair with brewed coffee grounds once or twice a week helps stimulate hair follicles, triggers stronger hair growth and adds texture. It is beneficial for your scalp because the grounds help exfoliate and allows for stronger hair to grow.

2. Coffee can enhance and darken your hair

This is a better alternative to those over the counter products that can harm your hair and scalp and it dehydrates your hair. Coffee grounds are natural, no harmful chemicals, and less expensive than a salon. It also gives your hair a nice overall glow naturally.

3. Coffee Grounds for Gardening

It helps improve drainage. Adding grounds to the soil will do this and it improves water retention. Coffee grounds keep pests like slugs and snails away but entices worms which can help the soil.

4. Helps curb odors

Placing a bowl of coffee grounds in your fridge helps neutralize odors. You can put them inside a pair of pantyhose and tie it off and place inside shoes for odor control or gym bags, etc.

5. Natural Cleaning Scrub

Just like for your scalp, coffee grounds make for a great natural exfoliator for your skin. Coffee has antibacterial and antiviral properties that are beneficial to your skin.

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6. Clean your Fireplace

If you frequently use a fireplace, the ashes can get messy. Cleaning one is no fun either. If you spread coffee grounds inside the fireplace, it helps weigh down the ashes and prevents smoke clouds from forming.

7. Coffee Grounds help grow Mushrooms

If you are trying to grow mushrooms for the health benefits they give you, put coffee grounds in a spray bottle and the soil you plan to use, put or keep in a plastic zipper bag, poke holes in it and spray it with the coffee grounds. Then cover it in cellophane and poke more holes in it and repeat.

8. Helps with eye circles

Since coffee grounds are a good exfoliator, if you have puffiness underneath your eyes, dark circles maybe...if you add a little coconut oil to the coffee grounds and apply it gently to your under eye area (the skin underneath your eyes is very sensitive so be careful) and let it sit for about 10 minutes.

JamesAltucher @JamesAltucher

What a great idea for a list...again! Someone should make a shampoo based on this. "Cafe!"

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jnagy13 @jnagy13

I was thinking the same thing actually. I would buy it. How about calling it Ground Up? I have done this many times and it works. It does take effort to do so if there was a product offered that could solve that problem, I am their customer. I just think it is such a niche audience that getting a product like that launched, funded and greenlit would be a major challenge, and even if it does, it's a question if it would be successful?

chantelle @chantelle

As a coffee person, I didn't know it has such effect on a person's hair. Thank you for sharing this!

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It definitely works.

I gotta try this!

kriscalulo89 @kriscalulo89

Interesting! I didn't know that it can help with dark circles around the eyes. Have you tried this?

Only once. It felt weird but it seemed to help, if I kept doing it, maybe I'd know more about if it really helps long-term.

Jnagy13

10 Uses for coffee grounds

1. Caffeine prevents hair loss

2. Coffee can enhance and darken your hair

3. Coffee Grounds for Gardening

4. Helps curb odors

5. Natural Cleaning Scrub

6. Clean your Fireplace

7. Coffee Grounds help grow Mushrooms

8. Helps with eye circles

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