Overripe bananas; wonderful ways to use overripe bananas

What can you do with overripe bananas other than dumping them in the garbage? Try these amazing tricks if you also have some overripe bananas at home.

Make homemade body scrub

Overripe bananas are high in vitamins A, B, E and even potassium. This is ideal for the skin. You can mash up a ripe banana, olive oil and large granulated sugar to make a homemade body scrub. Use this up within two days’ time. You will just love the results.

Make a banana teeth whitener

Remove the fruit and cut a square from the skin. Leave the rest of the fruit for later. Rub the square along your teeth or two minutes before brushing it normally. Repeat this every few days to see a noticeable change in the shade of your teeth.

Whip up a banana face mask

The high vitamin content of the overripe bananas makes it the ideal choice for a natural face mask. You do not need many ingredients to knock up a seriously hydrating concoction that does wonders to your skin. Just mix up ¼ cup of plain yogurt with 2 tbsp of honey and an overripe medium banana.

Apply a thick layer onto your skin and kick back for 10 minutes. Rinse off with warm water.

A foot softener

If you let your feet get too dry, cracks may appear. And the cracks can be painful so it is best to treat the dry feet as soon as possible.

Take a half of an overripe banana and add a few drops of honey to the mashed up banana. Apply the thick mixture to your fee and wrap your fee up with clingfilm and sit back for 10-20 minutes.

Acne treatment

Banana skin is also rich in nutrients. Lie back and place the squares of banana skin onto the affected areas to treat them.