Beauty and the Cucumber

From healthy salads to beauty applications, cucumber is one of those vegetables that does double duty for us.  The cucumber is a wonderful low calorie vegetable where we can create a facial tonic (cucmber water) or an application for our skin with these natural, at-home beauty recipes. 

Beauty and Personal Grooming gives a few great beauty applications and tips using cucumber for skin, beauty and hair health.  Again, these applications have not been FDA tested or approved, please consider this as a nice-to-know information.  For further information, please visit our Disclosure Policy.

Here they are:

1. Prevent Pimples and Blackhead:  Grate cucmber and apply on face and neck.  Regular use will prevent pimples as well as help dryness.
2. Brighten Skin:  We've all heard that cucumber brightens skin, well here is one application.  Add a dash of lime juice and rosewater to cucmber juice and apply to face.
3. Remove dark circles: I'm sure you already know about adding a slice of cucmber to your eyes to help brighten them and reduce dark circles.  If you add 1 tsp of cucmber juice to 1 tsb to potato juice and gently apply directly to under eyes, it can be quite effective in reducing dark circles.

Cucumber-Honey Toner, compliments from the Honey National Board

1.  1 medium Cucumber, peeled and cut up into pieces
2. 2 tsp. Honey

Puree cucumber in a blender. Line a sieve with cheesecloth and set the sieve over a glass bowl or measuring cup. Pour the cucumber puree through the sieve and let it stand for 15 minutes for the juices to drip into the bowl. Pour the clear juice into a clean bottle and add honey.

To use, shake the bottle and saturate a cotton pad with the lotion. Sweep over face, neck and chest morning and night, and let it air dry (about 3 to 4 minutes). Store covered in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Makes about 1/2 cup.

Hair Help with Cucumber

• Hair Growth:  Drink a blend of cucumber juice with carrot juice to help promote hair growth
• Damaged Hair:  Add one egg and peeled cucumber to a blender and spead evenly to hair.  Leave for about 10 minutes, wash and rinse.

Enjoy!