Banana skin often makes people fall slip when stepped on, so it is considered as the most annoying trash. When in fact the banana peel has a variety of benefits.
One benefit is to purify the water. According to a study in the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, banana peels can filter out heavy metals, especially lead and copper,many other benefits of the banana skin, some of them:
1. Relieve pain
Vegetable oil contained in a banana skin of a particular compound is efficacious as a pain reliever. Attach the banana skin clean and fresh to reduce pain to a burn or scratch.
2. Cope with itching
Itching from insect bites or allergies can be treated with a mild banana skin. The way is to put them on the surface of the skin that itch.
3. Treating warts (lumps grow in the outer layer of skin)
Banana peel is believed to have anti-viral activity, so many are using it to ward off warts from the skin surface. How to put a banana skin, and then arrested with plaster and allowed to heal by itself.
4. Accelerate wound healing
Wound was dry itchy skin due to shut off the hardened pieces. Fragments that can be eliminated more quickly simply by rubbing a banana peel, because it will react with the enzymes contained in them.
5. Enrich the soil
Not only for the compost mix, banana peels can be directly deposited into the ground just to fertilize the plants in the vicinity. Banana peels contain potassium which is needed in plant growth.
6. Burnish ornamental plants
Various kind of anthurium plants, a wave of love and the like would be more interesting if it looks green shiny leaves. Use the inside a banana skin to polish it a soft texture, it leaves it will be shiny and more durable.
7. Shoe polish
No need to panic if one day run out of shoe polish, since there are bananas in the fridge. Peel the fruit, and use its skin for leather shoe polish to make it look shiny like it had been polished