This "brown gold" will work wonders in your garden, your bathroom, your kitchen and even on your skin.
You'll never throw away this precious scrap again once you see all the things you can do with it!
Coffee grounds to make your home healthier
- Cleaning floors
Thanks to its abrasive properties, the substance will act as an exfoliant and remove the dirt stuck on the floor. To do this, mix a dose of coffee grounds with a little floor cleaner and boiling water. Now all you have to do is scrub!
- Remove bad odors from your fridge
If your fridge doesn't smell very good, coffee grounds can help. How do you use it? Nothing could be simpler, pour a few spoonfuls into a bowl and place it in your refrigerator until the odors disappear.
- Hide the scratches on your furniture
You've just moved a piece of wood furniture and slightly damaged it, so moisten a cotton swab and dip it in coffee grounds (this also works with ground coffee). Then apply the substance in small dabs to the scratches to cover them.
- Give your stoves a second youth
Have your pots and pans turned black over time? If so, simply pour a tablespoon of coffee grounds into them and wipe with a clean cloth.
Coffee grounds for your skin and hair
- Clean hair
As we have already mentioned, coffee grounds are a very powerful natural exfoliant. Its abrasive texture will help you remove oils or other dirt from your hair. Take a small dose (half a teaspoon) of coffee grounds and mix it with your shampoo, apply the mixture. Massage your scalp and rinse.
- Eliminate dark circles under the eyes
Combined with a natural gel, coffee grounds can be effective in removing dark circles under the eyes.
- Cleanse the skin
Thanks to its exfoliating properties, coffee grounds are perfect if you want to deep clean your skin. For even more effectiveness, you can also mix it with salt crystals.
Coffee grounds to make your garden more beautiful
- Keeping pests away
Goodbye ants, slugs and snails that devour your plants. Sprinkle a few handfuls of coffee grounds in your flower beds to keep certain pests away. Its acidity and smell make it a powerful natural repellent.
- Growing mushrooms
Mixed with cardboard and straw, coffee grounds are a very good substrate to grow mushrooms at home. For the more daring, here are some instructions to make it happen. For the others, you should know that many culture kits exist and are available on the Internet.
- Improving your compost
The nitrogen released by coffee grounds will improve the quality of your compost by accelerating the decomposition of organic waste. All you have to do is pour some into your compost bin.
- Improving soil quality with earthworms
Don't have time to dig up your garden? No problem, the worms will turn and aerate the soil for you. Take a few worms, put them in a bucket with some soil and coffee grounds. This incubation period will serve to make the worms like the coffee grounds. Then, just add the mixture around your plants and they will do the rest.
As you have just seen, there are a thousand and one ways to reuse coffee grounds in everyday life. Don't hesitate to share your tips on our facebook page
