Are you a tea lover who wishes they could take their lovely tea stash along with them when they leave the house? There are many ways to be able to take your loose tea with you for convenient brewing outside of the home. There are three ways that make traveling with loose tea easy and …
Author: Stephanie Davies
Beau-Tea-Ful: Beautify Yourself with Tea
Tea is delicious and is also healthy for your body. However there are also many aspects of tea that can help to beautify you and your skin and hair. For example tea can be used as a beauty rinse for your hair. If you have dark hair, use black tea, concentrated (use approximately 2 teabags …
Welcoming Guests into Your Home with Tea
When you have guests coming over to your house - whether expected or unexpected - tea provides not only a way of welcoming them warmly, but also refreshment and topics of conversation. Because guests more often than not stop into your house on short notice, it's a good idea to have your guest tea supplies …
Tea Gift Ideas for the Holiday Season
Tea is a wonderful gift to give during the holidays. While some people are more familiar with tea than others, very few people completely dislike tea, making it a very versatile gift for people of all ages. If the person you are buying tea for is not as familiar with teas as you are, you …
Rinsing Tea Leaves
Many people believe that "rinsing" tea leaves prior to use is a good practice. Rinsing tea leaves is the practice of pouring hot water over the tea leaves, then immediately pouring out that water and adding more hot water to actually brew the rinsed tea leaves. Some people rinse their tea leaves to reduce caffeine …
How to Host a Tea Party
Serving tea to guests is a time-honored tradition across the world. Indeed, in some countries if you do not partake of tea offered to you by your host, it is considered a very large breach of social etiquette, such as in parts of Morocco and Ireland. However serving tea to your guests helps to ensure …
Tea and Meditation
Tea has been used as a tool of meditation for centuries. Even the popular tea ceremonies of Japan and China have a meditative feel about them. One can witness for themselves the zen-like qualities which are present in a tea ceremony by watching the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tt7NBIVeMY However, using tea in your own meditations does …
5 Great Uses for Tea
As a hair rinse, tea can be used after shampooing to remove residues from your hair and leave your hair soft and shiny. Use black tea for darker hair and green tea or white tea for lighter hair color, and you can make the tea rinse as strong as you like, just remember to let …
Review —French Blend Black Tea
This exquisitely feminine and floral blend of black teas, jasmine, lavender, bergamot and vanilla is a beautiful treat to drink either day or night. There is a wide variety of black teas in the overall blend, providing for a strong, robust black tea base created from Ceylon, Assam, Nilgiri, Kenyan and Chinese black teas. Because …
How Tea Can Help Your Garden
After savoring the aroma and flavor of your cup of tea, did you know that the used tea leaves can continue to benefit you and your garden? Tea is a powerful fertilizer, so powerful in fact that recently Harvard University switched to an organic fertilizer comprised partially of green tea. There are many ways you …
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