For a relatively small vegetable, onions sure pack a powerful flavor punch.

It’s hard to imagine what food would be like without them.

Fromsoupstostewstoseasonings, onions are an absolutely indispensable part of just about every jot down of cuisine.

Onion

The only problem with the humble onion, though, is that it’s one big pain to prepare.

What do you do when you’re done peeling?

Have you ever thought, though, that maybe they might be put to better use?

Onion skins cooking

Or are you too busywiping the tears from your eyesto think about them at all?

As it turns out, onion skins can be put to quite a variety of uses.

But what makes onion skins so super?

Onion skins

That’s all very well and good, but how are you supposed to eat onion skins?

Aren’t they kind of papery?

TheTimes of Indiahails onion skins for their abundant sulfur, which they say is very nourishing to hair follicles.

Onion-dyed eggs

They also say an onion treatment can help preventthinning hair, and may evenhelp your hair to grow.

Woman lying on onions