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Caer Urfa Coffee likes to wish all those taking part in the Great North Run the best of luck especially Anthony Arnott (who is running) and Janice Wilkinson (who will be in attendance at the Macmillan stall in South Shields).

Good luck to everyone running or walking the GNR today x look out for me at mile 9, give me a wave and a yoohoo i will be shouting back with the Macmillan Team.

😀🏃‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

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Following on from our posts promoting Bio-bean and Optiat, there's more.

Coffee can do so much more than just lifting you out of your Monday morning slump.

Here are 13 ways coffee can tackle your beauty bugbears and bring a shine to your home.
1. Exfoliate
Coffee can make a brilliant natural exfoliate. For soft, smooth skin, rub a little ground coffee in circular motions to your skin and then rinse.
2. Brighten your skin
Coffee can perk up your face as well as your morning by stimulating circulation and giving you that extra glow. Wash your face as usual and mix one tablespoon of ground coffee with two tablespoons of organic, plain yoghurt. Apply to your face, leave for around 15 minutes and then rinse.
3. Reduce under eye bags
Chill used coffee grounds in the fridge. Once they’re cool, rub under the eye area. Leave to settle on your face for about 15 minutes before rinsing.
4. Battle cellulite
Most cellulite treatment creams have one key common ingredient – caffeine.Make your own at home by mixing some warm, used coffee grounds with coconut oil and rubbing it onto your skin in circular motions before rinsing.
5. Get shiny hair
Apply a little extra-strong coffee to dry, clean hair to make it shinier.Rub the cold coffee into your hair and leave it on for around 20 minutes before rinsing.
6. Enhance coloured brown hair
Mix one or two teaspoons of ground coffee with a handful of conditioner.Rub the mixture into coloured brown hair and leave for about five minutes to enhance the colour.
7. Natural air freshener
If you love the smell of fresh coffee, coffee beans make a great natural odour-neutraliser and air freshener for your home or car. Fill a small open container with freshly ground coffee beans and it will absorb any strong aromas such as fast food or pet odours.
8. Clean your surfaces
Coffee grounds are great for scrubbing tough surfaces as they are mildly abrasive and slightly acidic. You can use them on their own or mix them in with a little washing-up liquid.
9. Unblock your drain
Pour used coffee grounds down the sink followed by a few drops of washing up liquid and a pot of boiling water to clear a blocked drain.
10. Fix tired furniture
If you have any dark wood furniture that has a small nick or scratch in it, try using coffee.Mix 2-3 tablespoons with a little water to make a thick paste. Using a plastic knife spread the paste over the scratch using a plastic knife. Remove any excess with a slightly damp cloth.Leave it to dry before buffing.
11. Bake brownies
Using cold, fresh coffee to replace milk in your brownie recipe will give your batch a flavourful kick.

12. Lengthen the life of cut flowers
Filling a small jar with a coffee-soil mix can help keep cut flowers living longer.
13. Feed your houseplants
Fresh or used coffee grounds are high in nitrogen so a small amount makes a great feed for houseplants.

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Have you ever thought what to do with the dregs from your coffee machine – well entrepreneur Arthur Kay does.

With the increase in coffee shops and household coffee makers available Arthur can but the ground coffee remnants to good use, his company bio bean is able to turn the waste into bio fuel, that has the potential to be able to supple the energy needs for households and industry.

Products produced are

1.       ‘Biomass pellets’ from waste coffee grounds.

These carbon neutral, advanced biofuels are used for heating buildings, thus displacing fossil fuels.

2.     ‘Coffee Logs™’ Carbon neutral biomass briquettes from waste coffee grounds

Can fuel homes and appliances such as wood fired stoves, chimeneas and BBQs.

According to Kay, the London coffee industry alone creates over 200,000 tonnes of waste every year, so why not use that waste to good use. 

Check out - http://www.bio-bean.com

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Just a quick note to let you coffee lovers out there know we at Caer Urfa Coffee will be showing off our produce at this coming Fridays 7th Septembers Farmers Market at Saxon Square, Christchurch come along and have a look.

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Optiat skincare

Interestingly seen on a recent episode of Dragons Den were a brother and sister promoting their skin care company that used coffee grounds in their products? Here is an extract from their web site:

Natural, sustainable and handmade in the UK, Optiat create skincare products from quality ingredients that would otherwise be discarded. We provide ethical alternative o toxic beauty staples, such as micro beads, by using coffee grounds and other natural by products otherwise sent to landfill.

Welcome to Optiat, the nature-friendly skincare company. We take quality ingredients that would otherwise be discarded and transform them into natural, sustainable skincare products. Our products are hand-made in the UK and vegan-friendly, using only plant-based ingredients. We believe in respecting nature around us and will never, ever test on animals.

Check out - https://optiat.com/

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What to do with your coffee dregs – well we at Caer Urfa Coffee put it to good use, we use the chaff the papery layer that comes off the bean at roasting on our garden, acting much like chippings. As for the coffee grounds produced after making a cup of coffee again we mix that with our compost and put that on the garden.  

It will help microorganisms beneficial to plant and vegetable growth thrive as well as attract earthworms. It’s said that coffee grounds lower the pH (or raise the acid level) of soil, which is good for acid loving plants.

Watch out for the next post where we have looked at a couple of companies that use the coffee grounds to good use.

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Caer Urfa Coffee recent visit to West Bay beautiful place to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee.