GT Beauty: 5 Surprising Ways To Add Coffee Grounds To Your Beauty Routine

Let’s take a look at the different ways you can use coffee grounds as part of your beauty routine at home. Yes, it sounds unusual right? But it works!

There are plenty of ways to incorporate coffee into your beauty routine, however, we have listed just 5 ways.

Use coffee As a Lip Scrub

For a softer lips, mix together ground coffee, olive oil and honey to create a smooth, yet effective lip scrub. Then gently rub the mixture on your lips in a circular motion for 30 seconds, then remove with a wet washcloth or rinse with warm water. After which you can apply your matte lipsticks and glosses.

Coffee Is Good For Aching Feet

Yes you read correctly! If you do a lot of walking and your feet are constantly aching, all you need to do is take a cup of coconut oil and mix it with half cup of ground coffee and two tablespoons of vanilla extract.

Then, get into a tub or basin filled with warm water, soak your feet and then apply the scrub gently to each foot.

 Get Rid Of Dark Circle and Puffy Eyes with coffee

There is nothing worse than waking up with puffy eyes and dark under-eye circles. So, coffee has the ability to reduce the appearance of puffiness and dark under-eye circles. Because of its anti-inflammatory properties, caffeine can minimize the accumulation of blood under your eyes, therefore preventing dark circles. To reduce puffiness and dark under-eye circles, you should apply coffee grounds to the area around your eyes and allow to settle for some time before taking your bath to see its effectiveness.

Brighten Up Your Face with coffee

To get brighter skin from coffee, mix two table spoonful of organic yogurt with one tablespoonful ground coffee. Wash your face before applying the coffee and yogurt mix. Leave the mixture on your face for 15 minutes so that it will be effective, then, rinse with water.

If you keep doing this, your skin will glow and look radiant again in no time.

Exfoliate Your Scalp with coffee

You can exfoliate your scalp with coffee. Ground coffee works as a great exfoliator, and it also gives your hair back its healthy lustre.

All you need to do is take a third of a cup of ground coffee and apply it to your wet scalp. Then, massage for about 2-3 minutes in circular motions before rinsing. Wash your hair properly with shampoo and conditioner to get rid of the coffee.