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Green Tea Recipes for Skin Health

September 17, 2018

What’s the best tea for skin health and wellness? Social media users, homeopathic practitioners and even your book club members are buzzing about the versatility of green tea. Beyond its popularity as a lightly caffeinated beverage, green tea has found its way into health and beauty products such as supplements, cleansers, and moisturizers. Claims about its anti-inflammatory properties are numerous; therefore, many hopefuls drink green tea for acne, eczema and psoriasis symptom relief. Several name-brand skin care lines also feature green tea as a key ingredient in their products.

The do-it-yourself (DIY) movement has inspired people worldwide to use green tea in fresh and innovative ways. At Art of Tea, we’ve compiled 10 recipes you can make with affordable ingredients you may already have on hand.

DIY Skin Care Products Made With Green Tea

These ideas from our Health and Beauty With Tea Pinterest board combine freshly brewed green tea with ingredients like essential oils, shea butter, aloe vera, and sea salt to create soaks, scrubs, and other natural skin care products. Many of these recipes feature links to other DIY ideas, so grab your tablet, kick up your feet and get ready for the green tea fun!

DIY Green Tea Lip Balm: This light and moisturizing lip treatment is made with coconut oil, beeswax, and optional flavoring.
DIY Green Tea and Peppermint Bath Soak: Seal five ingredients in an airtight jar for a fragrant, rejuvenating soak that pampers the senses.
DIY Homemade Green Tea Exfoliator: Sugar, olive oil and raw honey star in this sweet skin treat.
Green Tea Scrub for Healthy Skin: Matcha green tea powder, avocado oil and sugar combine in this easy-to-make scrub.
Green Tea-Tea Tree Oil Bath Bomb: Baking soda, cornstarch, and Epsom salt serve as the medium for this refreshing option.
Lemon and Green Tea Soap: Lemon essential oil, glycerin soap and matcha powder are all you need to make and mold this aromatic cleanser.
Matcha Green Tea Bath Bombs: When made in natural, unbleached cupcake liners, these bath delights make attractive gifts.
Refreshing Orange Green Tea Bath Salt: You only need three ingredients — a fresh orange, Epsom salt, and green tea packets — for this bright, citrusy recipe.
Silken Rose and Green Tea Lotion: While this recipe requires more time and ingredients to prepare, it features a how-to video for those new to lotion-making.
Whipped Mint Green Tea Sugar Scrub: Foaming bath butter and a hand mixer help you make this fluffy exfoliant.

Green Tea Selections From Art of Tea

Now that you have some great recipes for homemade skin care products, why not browse our green tea selections for more inspiration? These options are ideal for sipping as you contemplate which recipe you’d like to try first:

Dragonwell: Whole leaf tea with notes of hay, acorn squash, and pistachio
Eisai’s Choice Sencha: Rich and grassy organic whole leaf tea
Matcha Tea Grade A: Organic powdered tea ideal for both drinking and recipes
Yun Wu (Clouds Mist): Organic and smoky whole leaf tea with astringent and artichoke notes

Which Teas Have the Most Antioxidants?

September 10, 2018

Customers looking to have the best possible health outcomes from their food and beverage choices are quick to pick up on the benefits of regularly drinking teas. Not only does tea provide you with important antioxidants like tannins and catechins, its varieties offer you the opportunity to take in even more antioxidants and nutrients depending on the blend, the other herbs used to create its unique flavor, and the way the tea is harvested and prepared.

OK, But Which Ones Are Best?

The trust is, there is no “best” tea for antioxidant absorption. The different classes of teas have different antioxidants that help the body in different ways, it’s true. All of them are rich in these compounds, though, so all of them are beneficial. Like with many nutrients and minerals, antioxidants are most effective when they are consumed consistently, in moderate amounts that reflect a human’s ideal diet.

What does this mean for your tea choices? It means that your best bet is to simply focus on drinking two to three cups a day of your favorite blends for different moods and occasions. Since the different types of tea do have different antioxidants, switching things up will make sure you get the full range of available nutrients from this important food source.

Suggested Teas for Each Type

If you’re trying to build a wide selection of teas to keep your taste buds interested in your new healthy beverage option, look no further than Art of Tea. Our selection includes a number of great flavors for each major type of tea.

Black teas like English Breakfast, Nepal Tea, and Monk’s Blend
Green teas like Liquid Jade, Green Pomegranate Tea, and Matchasticks
White teas that include Tuscany, Silver Needle, and White Coconut Crème
Oolong teas like Iron Goddess of Mercy, 12:00 PM Tea, and Crimson Oolong

These great tea flavors provide you with the chance to experience tea the way it is blended in various places around the world, opening up your senses and allowing you to experience the fresh, distinct, and nuanced flavors at home.

Order Your Favorite Teas Today

If you’re ready to place an order, our team is ready to process it and get it out to you. We can also take questions if you have any. Just contact us online and let us know how we can help. Our team wants to make sure every customer has the best experience possible with their online tea purchase.

Tea and Tunes Part 2 – Celebration!

August 21, 2018

Celebrating a new job? Having friends and family over for a birthday kickback? Needing a mood boost? You have come to the right place. We have created the ultimate pairing for you: tea and tunes. Shake up your day with an energizing Matcha, get those speakers turned up, and let’s get groovin’.

Iced Tea Cocktails

Hosting a party and in need of a delightful mixer for your cocktails? Iced tea is the perfect cocktail or mocktail mixer as tea packs a lot of flavor without any calories. No need to pinch yourself. You’re not dreaming! When pairing your liquor with a tea, it helps to think about what the spirit is classically mixed with. For example, Gin is often mixed with citrus and tonic. Vodka pairs well with the tartness of cranberry. Rum goes well with mint. Using these three as an example, we can already craft awesome tea mixed drinks! Try pairing gin with iced London. The floral notes of lavender will pair well with the subtle juniper notes in gin, while the oil of bergamot gives the citrus kick you expect from a gin and tonic. For a vodka mixed drink, we suggest using iced Hibiscus Cooler. This tea is incredibly flavorful, with the hibiscus contributing tartness reminiscent of Vodka’s go-to partner, cranberry. Mimic a Mojito using iced tea to make a calorie-free rum cocktail that helps beat the heat. Brew iced Passionfruit Jasmine and add a splash of rum for the perfect, refreshing cocktail.

Mood Booster

If you’re looking to bring a ray of sunshine to your senses and get yourself in the celebratory mood, Happy Tea is just the blend for you. Surely the name of this tea alone is enough to put a smile on anyone’s face. Sometimes we get a little intertwined in our ordinary, everyday lives and could use a fresh perspective. So what better way to lift your spirits than to tantalize your palate with a cup of this organic, utopian bliss? Sweet raspberries are perfectly balanced by the tangy effervescence of fresh hibiscus flowers while the indulgent, floral scent of jasmine carries this slightly stimulating guayusa tea to a place that could only be described as ‘Happy’ with a capital ‘H’! Enjoy this delightful tea on your own or in the company of close friends and loved ones.

Celebratory Gifts

Heading to a celebration an in need of a gift (or two)? Art of Tea has the perfect collection of gift items for all! Whether it’s a Tea of the Month subscription or a Ceremonial Matcha Bowl Set, we are certain you will find the perfect gift at Art of Tea.

Whether you are mixing up iced tea cocktails, sipping on Happy Tea, or wrapping your perfect gift, keep this playlist bumping through your speakers for the ultimate celebratory vibes at any moment.