Cucumber is major known as refreshing, cooling, watery rich vegetable. It is not only used for eating purpose, but aslo people uses cucumber for skincare. It contains hight quantity of water (95%) which provide a better water regulation in a body as well as maintain health. If, someone is facing a problem of itching, inflammation, etc then, cucumber is one of the best treatment for that purpose.
This vegetable is mostly use at the time of summers. You can see cucumber is only common vegetable in every person’s grocery list during the time of summers. It contains vitamins k, vitamins c, vitamin B1,B2,B5,B6,B9, and minerals like, cu (copper), k (pottasium), mg (magnesium), P (phosphorous), zn (zinc), etc.
Before going further, let’s talk about some basic facts about cucumber:-
- It originates from south east asia.
- It can be upto 2 foot long and contains only 16 calories
- It is hydroponic in nature.
- It can be used by many people for dieting purpose.
- It helps to increase water level in a body.
- It can maintain your blood sugar level.
- It can help you to glow your skin.
Now, let’s go further, and talk about the benefits of using cucumber.
Benefits of using cucumber For Skincare!!
It helps to maintain you body hydrated:- As we all know that, cucumber contains 95% of water as their raw. It helps to maintain your body hydrated by just eat it. According to many scientists, it was clear that a normal human body needs atleast 7-8 glass of water in a whole day to maintain their body water level. But, sometimes many of us are not able to drink enough water in a whole because of many reason like, we are not habitual to drink water or we are busy with our office works, etc. so in that case, you should have to eat atleast 3-4 cucumbers in a day to maintain your body water level.
And, if you are not habitual to drink water, then you can add cucumber in your drink. It makes you drink more interesting with some great taste, and that boost to drink you more.
- It helps to maintain your body weight:- Many of us are feeling tired because of not able to find the best way that how we lose or maintain body weight? But, don’t worry about any. We have our best companion, who helps us to maintain or lose weight within in a month. Firstly, you have to remember that a single normal size cucumber contains only 16 calories. So, if you think about to take a healthy diet, then starts eating cucumber. A single cucumber contains 16 calories which are less than 1 calorie of our daily diet for weight loss. It helps to maintain your body calories, and create calories deficit in your body.
- It handover antioxidants:- Cucumbers are rich in antioxidants. It contains beta-carotene, thats helps to fight against free radicals, and free electrons in our body that destroy cells and create diseases. It also contains vitamins like, vitamin c, vitamin k, vitamin B, that helps to maintain skin, and cure your body by diseases like diarrhoea, etc. they are also rich in triterpenes, ligans that shows anti-inflammatory properties.
- It helps to maintains your blood pressure:- Many of us are facing a problem of blood pressure. It causes due to stress. It is also known as hypertension. The main cause of B.P. is more of sodium and lack of potassium in our body. When the amount of sodium in our body increases, that causes retention of water. In that condition, blood pressure of a body increases. But, to keep that functioning maintained, the same amount of potassium will be required to maintained blood pressure. Pottasium is an electrolyte which helps to maintian the flow of blood in our body. Such as, cucumber are aslo rich in pottasium. Cucumber water helps you to get more potassium, and lower your blood pressure.
- It take care of your skin:– Each and every person needs a better skin. But, no one knows that how to take care of your skin. Some of us are wasting their money in surgeries, cosmetics, medicines, and using very costly skin care product. But, do you know that a single vegetable can help you to maintain your skin without expend more money. Yes, we all know that cucumber is one of the vegetables, that contains 95% of water as a raw. It helps to hydrated you body, and removes all the dust or bad particles form your skin. Cucumber are rich in vitamin B-5, that helps in a cure of acne.
To get relief from that, we have a cucumber eye treatment which helps you to make your puffy eyes into de-puffed. We all know, that cucumber are rich in water which helps you to make your body hydrated. But, if you put the slice of cucumber on your eyes, then it provides some great cooling effect in that hot sizzling summer time, cure your eyes form the disease called red eye.
- Cucumber mask for acne-prone skin:-
Cucumber are rich in water, that helps to keep our body hydrated. It contains many vitamins, minerals, etc. one such vitamin B-5, that cure acne-prone skin. To make a mask, firstly add cucumber water with bentonite clay. Then, add that mask on your face skin, and sprint some drops of water on your face after applying that mask. After 15-20 minutes, remove that mask and you will definitely feel that relief on your face.
- Cucumber face wash:-
Most of the peoples uses many kind off face cleaning facewashes. But, many of them makes face skin very dry. But here, we have a very fresh and instant home made facewash for you. Yes, you can create your own cucumber facewash by just adding cucumber juice with some healthy ingredients like, aloe vera, green tea, etc. mix all these things, and make a mixture. Use that mixture as a face wash.
- Cucumber, a hydrated drink:-
Cucumber is one of the most hyrarted vegetable, that contains 95% of water as a raw. It helps to keep our body hydrated as well as maintain our body’s blood pressure, and prevent us form heart attack. If a particular person is not habitual to drink atleast 7-8 glasses of water in a day. Then, you should eat atleast 3-4 cucumbers daily to maintain you body water level. Many of us don’t like the taste of normal drinking water. Then, you shoud add cucumber juice with you drink to make it healthy and tasty.
