Banana peel benefits. Banana skins often make people fall slipping when stepped on, so it is considered as the most annoying trash. When in fact the banana peel has a variety of benefits, ranging from warts to polish shoes.
One such benefit is ever written detikHealth purify water. According to a study in the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, banana peels can filter out heavy metals, especially lead (Pb) and copper (Cu).
In that study, banana peels are used unmodified but just chopped up into small pieces and put in water polluted ayng. Dugunakan minced banana peel could be up to 11 times without losing its ability to absorb heavy metals.
Meanwhile quoted from Re-nest.com, there are many other benefits of banana peel in addition to purify water. Some of them are as follows:
1. Relieves pain
Vegetable oils contained in the banana peel has a certain compound is efficacious as a pain reliever. Stick the banana skin clean and fresh to relieve pain in burns or scratches.
2. Overcoming itch
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
Banana peel is believed to have antiviral activity, so many are using it to drive the warts from the skin surface. How to put a banana peel, then arrested with plaster and allowed to heal by itself.
4. Accelerate the healing of wounds
Wounds that had started to itch for a closed dry flakes of dead skin that hardens. Flakes can be eliminated more quickly just by applying a banana skin, because it will react with the enzymes contained therein.
5. Soil fertility
Not just to mix compost banana peels can be directly deposited into the ground just to fertilize the plants around it. Banana peel contains potassium which is needed in plant growth.
6. Burnish houseplants
Various kind of anthurium plants, the wave of love and the like would be more interesting if it looks shiny green leaves. Use the inside of a banana peel to polish 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, as long as there are bananas in the refrigerator. Peel biuahnya, then use the skin for leather shoe polish to make it look shiny like it had been polished