You thought you would eat it only, but she is versatile, lends itself to help you and is close to the end, a friend for the skin and more: here is the fruit!
Peels, seeds, hazelnuts and pulp: fruit is not only indispensable as a food, but can also be useful for other purposes. Let's see what we have bananas, oranges and lemons, apricots, apples, avocados, cherries: to you the uses and reuse of fruit!
Bananas for the skin ... of the feet!
Very dry and aching feet? Crush and apply the ripe pulp of a banana in the part where your feet are most dry, usually laterally, where annoying vertical cuts are formed, close to the heels.
Leave on for about ten minutes, rinse with warm water, it is a more than effective remedy! The skin of the feet is not the only one to benefit from the fruit: try also to make you masks based on banana, avocado and lemon juice: they are perfect to nourish and rejuvenate the skin!
Fruit for the teeth
Apples whiten teeth, but not only them! Other natural remedies are strawberries and bananas . Just mix the flattened ripe strawberry pulp with baking soda and a teaspoon of olive oil and brush the teeth with the natural toothpaste obtained. With the banana the inner part of the peel is rubbed on the surface of the teeth.
The apple contains malic acid in slight concentration: it is an acid which, taken pure, spoils the teeth, but which in this case, or as it is naturally contained in the fruit, has a slight lightening power. By eating an apple a day with the skin you will have even whiter teeth!
The strength of the lemon as a cleaning companion
Lemon is an indispensable fruit at home to solve many "cleanliness issues" and do natural cleaning! Here are some. The stubborn stains of fruit and vegetables like artichokes, can be easily removed from the skin of the hands thanks to the lemon juice, just rub them with half a lemon before washing them with soap.
Stains and halos also go away from washable surfaces thanks to a mix of lemon and bicarbonate of soda. And with vegetables, vegetables are better cleaned, just add a few drops of lemon to the water you wash them in, you will get a safer cleaning and the vegetables will become more crispy. Kitchen utensils such as wooden cutting boards, spoons, ladles will lose unpleasant smells when rubbed with lemon.
This fruit is also fantastic for removing dark spots of tea or coffee from the dishes: when you have squeezed the half lemon, do not throw it away, put it in the dishwasher, the washing will be perfect and naturally fragrant! For a gentle and non-polluting bleach, just mix four tablespoons of lemon juice and four of bicarbonate of soda and add it to the detergent. The lemon also serves to clean the steel sinks in the kitchen and the iron plate: rub, rinse well and dry.
Banana and lemon shoes
If they are white and tennis, rub them with lemon and let them dry in the sun. Banana peels can also replace classic shoe cleaning products, which often contain naphtha and turpentine, harmful substances and pollutants.
Just rub the inside of the banana peel on the shoe and then wipe with a clean, soft cloth, they will become very shiny!
And with the skins that you do?
The peels of dried citrus fruits can be chopped and then enrich tea, sugar, sweets. You can also boil fresh in water with the juice of half a lemon and bicarbonate. Once cooled, the compound can be used to clean fonelli, lanvandin i and other washable surfaces.
Do they begin to enter ants and various animals in the house? A dough made with bicarbonate water and lemon peel, grapefruit or chopped oranges, if smeared in the holes where insects pass under the windowsills, contributes to keeping them away!
Mask for skin and hair with avocado
The avocado is also an excellent mask for skin and hair, something South American women who have used for thousands of years know something about it. Its pulp can in fact be used as an anti-wrinkle mask or as a tonic for dry hair. Just crush the pulp of a ripe fruit and mix it with almond oil for the face and with corn germ oil soy oil and honey for the hair, overreaction is assured!
Curiosity: The stems of the cherries must be preserved, if dried, they can be used as a base to make fantastic draining herbal teas . Their hazelnuts can be used to make anti-cervical pillows to be heated. The pits of the apricot, as well as the internal seeds of the fig are excellent natural scrubs . You can buy chopped kernels and hazelnuts in natural and organic food stores, if you don't have a small mill or cereal mill.
