Have you ever used a banana skin to polish your shoes? How did it work out?

[astro]

I found this shoe care tip intriguing, I have no bananas right now, but I am curious. Does this actually give shoes a useful shine?

Has any tried this?

Polish Shoes With a Banana Peel

No shoe polish? No problem. As long as you have a banana, you’re good to go. My grandma would always do this, and it worked like a charm. How, you ask? Bananas contain a key ingredient found in commercial shoe polishes: potassium. So here are some simple steps to get a peel-perfect polish!

Please note: This technique works best for shoes that you would typically apply shoe polish to. Don’t apply to shoes that contain suede or nubuck.

1. Peel a banana (save the fruit to eat later as your reward!) and keep the skin.
2. Apply the skin to the shoe using the inner lining of the banana skin. Rub it all over the shoe, just as you would if you were using polish.
3. Once you have wiped the banana skin over the whole of both shoes, buff them up with a soft cloth.
4. Admire your now-clean shoes. They’ll come up shiny and like new again. Oh, and they’ll smell good, too!

[panache45]

Oh, I thought it was a euphemism.

[Yorikke]

Dunno if it’s valid, but there are quite a few Google hits on the concept : https://www.google.com/search?q=banana+as+shoe+polish&aq=f&oq=banana+as+shoe+polish&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3.4619j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8. My gut reaction was “BS,” but who knows?

[DMark]

I suppose if you want to attract monkey shoe fetishists, it could be a good idea.

Don’t they use banana oil to get rid of fingernail polish? How could that be good for polished shoes? Just wondering…