Banana peel as the outer skin of the fruit is full of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Since it is unpleasant and inedible they are usually removed and discarded. You will never do that again after you discover how valuable it is to your skin and in household daily uses.





• Banana Peel Teeth Whitening:

A common use of banana peel is to whiten teeth by rubbing a yellow peel (neither green nor ripe) on them for 2 minutes every day , and your teeth will be noticeably whiter in 2 weeks.





There is yet an easier way to do that by making a paste using banana peel, this paste may replace your regular toothpaste you are used to buy. You will need the following ingredients :





½ -------------- Banana yellow peel (about 40 grams)

2 TBSP ------- Glycerin

2 drops -------- Peppermint oil

2 drops -------- Sage oil

2 drops -------- Thyme oil





Mix all the ingredients using a blender and use glycerin freely to get the consistency you like since the peel weight is not standardized, but make sure that glycerin constitutes at least half the weight of the final paste for preservative purposes. Pack the paste in a clean jar and keep in the fridge.





Use it like a normal toothpaste using toothbrush (sell it?.. may be). The essential oils will add to the paste good taste, soothing and antibacterial effects. If you want to use peppermint only, it is OK.





• Smooth Shaving:

You can use banana peel to get very smooth shaving you have never

experienced before. Moisturizing your face will be a free bonus.

To make it follow the below instructions:

- Boil 1g (1/4 TSP) Fenugreek seeds in water until softened and swollen

- Grate a toilet soap (90g)

- Add 1g softened fenugreek seeds to, 90g grated soap and 60g of the previously mentioned banana peel toothpaste

- Add 20 ml more of glycerin to preserve

- Blend to mix and get a smooth paste

- Use this paste to shave or alternatively mix this paste to you regular shaving cream in a ratio of 1 part paste to 3 parts shaving cream





• Banana Peel : Anti-allergic, Anti-inflammatory, and Pain Killer

You can rub the inside of a banana peel on mosquito bite, scrape, scratch, burn or a splinter (you can tape it), it will relieve the symptoms associated with any of them like swelling, itching, or pain. It will prevent wound from being infected and helps them healed.

You can use the previously mentioned banana peel toothpaste instead of using the peel itself for all these purposes.

• Headache

Rubbing a banana peel on your forehead can help cure a headache. Adding 1 drop of basil essential oil to a portion of the previously mentioned banana peel toothpaste and rubbing it on the forehead, relieves pain even faster.

• Skin Ink Stain

It instantly removes ink stain from the skin when its inside face is rubbed on the affected area.

Banana peel has other wonderful household uses :





• Polish both Silver and Leather

Rub a dull silver object, a leather shoes or handbag with the white side of the peel and then buff it using a clean cloth. It will put a sparkle back on silver and diminish any scuff marks in the leather.





• Floor Wax

Mix raw wax crystals and kerosene with banana peels to create a substance suitable for use polishing your wooden floors.

How to Make Floor Wax From Bananas | eHow





• Fertilizer and plant leaves polisher

Banana peels make great fertilizer (you can compost them, bury them whole, or cut them in small pieces and mix them with garden soil) because of their phosphorous and potassium content.

Give your plants a healthy shine in no time at all by giving their leaves a polish with inside of a banana peel.

• Dried Banana peel kills both aphid and ants

Cut up two to three banana peels and place on a baking tray and bake in oven at 100°C for approximately fifteen minutes. Dig an inch deep hole at the base of your plant with the aphid problem and place the dried banana peel in the soil. This is also lethal to ants.

• Banana peel powder can remove roughly 65% of heavy metals from river water. Repeating the process can completely purify water.