Samuel Gibbs

    12 Sep 2009

    Not sure if it’s true, or just old wives tales, but worth an experiment me thinks.

    1. Help Your Garden Grow: Bananas are naturally high in potassium and encourages plant growth. Use banana peel or puree entire banana and bury with soil.

    2. Shoe Polish: Use the peel to make your kicks nice and shiney.

    3. Stop the Itch: Rub the inside of a banana peel on a bug bite helps itch relief.

    4. Pain Reliever: The oil in a banana peel will help relieve the pain from burns and scratches.

    5. Wart Removal: Tape a piece of banana peel on a wart, continue until it’s.

    6. Make Houseplants Gleam: Just like peels can shine shoes, they can also be used to make the leaves of plants shine.

    7. Removing Splinters: Similar to wart removal, tape a piece of the peel over the splinter. The enzymes will help dislodge the splinter and heal the wound.