Bamboo charcoal is a marvelous thing that more people should know about. It is a natural product from a renewable resource. It has a number of remarkable properties that make it useful in the home and garden. To find out more read on.

Bamboo charcoal is made by heating bamboo culms in a kiln at a high temperature. As with regular charcoal, bamboo charcoal can be used as a fuel for the barbecue. The great advantage of bamboo charcoal is that it is odorless and smokeless. It is also more environmentally friendly to use bamboo charcoal than charcoal from wood.

Charcoal is porous and bamboo charcoal is very porous. It has a weight to surface area of 1 to 600. This means bamboo charcoal is a great air freshener. It literally sucks all the unpleasant smells out of the air. Moreover, it can be used to remove excess humidity from the air too. Bamboo charcoal is far more preferable than artificial air fresheners that contain VOCs that make you sick.

The Japanese use pieces of bamboo charcoal in their cooking. A piece in with the rice in the rice cooker cleans the water of impurities and improves the taste of the rice. It can also be used when deep fat frying. The bamboo charcoal helps to extend the life of the oil and make the food crispier.

It is also common in Japanese homes to find bamboo charcoal water filters on the kitchen faucet. The filter helps to remove excess chlorine from the water and thus improve the taste.

In the bathroom a must is bamboo charcoal soap. It is soap that contains bamboo charcoal. It lathers up well and cleans much better than normal soap, cleaning to the bottom of the pores. Bamboo charcoal soap is also an effective treatment for acne.

In these few words I have only just become to explain some of the amazing benefits to using bamboo charcoal. I recommend that you read more and find out for yourself.