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"4. Pain Reliever: The oil in a banana peel will help relieve the pain from burns and scratches."

Sorry, folks, but you never want ANY kind of oil to be applied to a burn. Oil traps heat in the tissue to which it is applied. Don't use butter, oily creams, nothing of the sort. Yes, some of those oily preparations DO relieve the pain, but they still trap the heat.

If you get burnt, the best treatment is cold water. I want to say ice water, but research has pretty well proved that ice and ice water do additional damage to the burn area.

If a burn is so minor that I can just shake the pain off, I don't treat it at all. If it's more serious, I get cold tap water, add a few ice cubes and immerse the burn.

NO OIL OF ANY KIND!!!!!

Feel free to question a doctor, or to google around the net for burn treatments - don't take my word.