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Never throw away the banana peel: here’s what you can clean for free and you didn’t expect it!

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The banana is a fruit with extraordinary nutritional values. What few people know, however, is that its skin is also very useful at home and for cleaning. We’re about to delve deeper into the topic and discover 3 unsuspecting items that can be cleaned with peels.

An unwritten law passed down to us from our grandmothers states that we should never throw anything away in the kitchen. Not to mention the food waste that we can reuse both to create new recipes and for some difficult cleaning operations. A very valid speech when it comes to a particular waste: banana peel . We all know that it is excellent as a fertilizer, as a cosmetic and for cleaning silverware. Few people, on the other hand, know that with peels we can clean 3 of the dirtiest objects in the house . We’re about to find out what they are, how to make them good as new, and why we should never throw away the banana peel.

We use the peel to clean the screen of smartphones and televisions
Smartphones and televisions are two of the objects that we use most often and on which a huge amount of dirt accumulates. Let’s start with the first. There are two parts of the phone that are the dirtiest and hardest to clean: the camera lens and the screen . For the first we have many tips and non-aggressive products such as glasses wipes and rice. To remove dirt and scratches from the screen we can use banana peel . Like, how? We peel a not too ripe fruit and cut a slice. Let’s gently pass it on the screen and leave it to act for 5 minutes. At this point we use the skin to clean the residue and then we finish the operation with a soft cotton cloth.

Remove dirt and scratches from the screen

With the same procedure we can clean the TV screen . The vegetable fats in the banana will remove dirt and we will probably say goodbye to the most superficial scratches.

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