Cucumber For Your Beauty

Julia Roberts admits that gardening is her greatest hobby and she likes to grow her own fruits and vegetables which she uses in her homemade facial masks. Cucumbers deal with swelling while strawberry masks whiten skin and remove pigment spots.

Nature is the greatest healer. You may be surprised, but a lot of people use various fruits and vegetables in their homemade beauty recipes. In this article I want to tell you how to take care of your skin using a simple cucumber. Try one of my beauty recipes and enjoy all the advantages of natural cosmetics.

For 4000 years cucumber has been very popular among people of India, Greece, and Egypt. They don’t just eat it they also use it as cosmetics. And there is something behind that!

Cucumber contains lots of water that is why it’s so good for cleaning your body from chemical waste and moisturizing your skin. Besides, this “miracle vegetable” contains calcium and vitamin C. The chemical components of cucumber are very active and rival radionuclides and other heavy metals in all stages of metabolism. Vitamin C is highly indispensable for collagen synthesis which forms structure lattice and makes skin stronger. Besides, vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant which helps to restore skin after damage. 

Bioactive substances (vitamin C, B, A, potassium, sulfur, manganese, iodine, cobalt, etc.) which contain in the cucumbers help to fight various skin defects. Cucumber masks and lotions soften, smooth and tighten skin. 

Cucumber works great on your skin. Mask made of fresh cucumber cleans and whitens skin. Cucumber lotions tonicize skin, remove acne and make your skin springy and clean.

Dry Skin

Mix 1 tablespoon of grated cucumber with 1 tablespoon of sour cream. Apply this mixture to your face for 15 minutes. Perform this mask twice a week.

Blend 1 cucumber with fatty cream. Apply this mask to your face for 10-15 minutes. Wash it away with lukewarm water.

Mix 3-4 tablespoons of grated cucumber and 2 tablespoons of sour cream. Apply this paste to your face and neck for 20 minutes. Wash it away with lukewarm water. 

 

Normal Skin

Mix 1 grated cucumber with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 1 tablespoon of milk, and 1 tablespoon of curd. Blend it thoroughly. Apply this mixture to your face for 15 minutes and wash it away with lukewarm water.

Mix 3 tablespoon of cucumber juice and 1 tablespoon of almond oil. Apply this mixture to your face for 30 minutes and wash it away with warm water.

Mix 1 grated cucumber and 1 grated raw potato. Apply this purée to your face, neck, and décolleté area for 15-20 minutes. Wash it away thoroughly with cold water and wipe your face with a towel. Apply an olive oil to your face afterwards and leave there for 20-30 minutes. Then wipe your face, neck, and décolleté area with facial napkin. 

Oily Skin

Mix 1 grated cucumber with 1 egg white. If you find it necessary you can dissolve this mixture with a little amount of mineral still water. Apply this mixture to your face for 10 minutes and wash it away with lukewarm water.

Mix 2 tablespoons of cucumber juice and 1 frothed egg white. Apply this mixture to your face for 15 minutes and wash it away with lukewarm water

You can clean an oily skin with such mixture: mix cucumber juice with vodka (4:1) and wipe your face with that lotion.

Mix ½ of grated cucumber with vodka (2:1). Draw it for 3-4 hours. Filter it afterwards and dissolve it with mineral still water. Wipe your face with this lotion twice a day. 

 

Aging Skin

Take 2 tablespoons of fresh cucumber juice and rose water and add 1 tablespoon of fatty cream. Whisk it thoroughly until it looks like foam. Apply this “foam” to your face for 5-10 minutes. Then remove it from your face with facial napkin and wipe your skin with cotton ball damped in rose water.

Mix 1 grated cucumber with 1 tablespoon of honey. Apply this mixture to your face for 10 minutes and wash it away with lukewarm water. 

As for me, I prefer to pour cucumber juice into the ice cube moulds and freeze it. I wipe my face with these ice cubes twice a day, leave it for 10 minutes and then wash it away. You can preserve cucumber ice cubes in the freezer up to 24 for days – as long as they keep their healthy substances.

  

Cucumber lotion is very easy to make just by squeezing juice out of cucumber. You can preserve it in a hermetic jar up to 3 days. Such lotion cleans and mat skin perfectly. Besides it removes skin grease. I don’t wash my face after wiping my face with cucumber lotion because it remains clean and fresh.