How to use cucumber for face?

Taking care of their appearance, women visit beauty salons, buy expensive creams and masks.However, very often great skin care products are at hand, and they cost mere pennies. The article will discuss the most common cucumber, which can be independently grown in the country.

All familiar cucumbers have many useful properties. First of all, it is a low-calorie diet product. Calorie cucumber is only 13-15 kcal per 100 g of product, so it is included in the diet to reduce weight and normalize metabolism. Vegetable contains many vitamins (A, E, C, Group B, PP) and trace elements (molybdenum, manganese, zinc, iron, magnesium, fluorine, phosphorus, potassium, copper, calcium, sodium), without which metabolic processes in the body are impossible person Its rich composition makes it useful in many diseases.

Cucumbers are recommended to be used inside with kidney disease. Fresh cucumber has a diuretic effect, as more than 90% of it consists of water. The presence of potassium and magnesium makes the vegetable useful for those suffering from cardiovascular diseases, because it contributes to the normalization of blood pressure. A vegetable is also useful for improving the functioning of the thyroid gland, since it contains iodine. Regular consumption of cucumbers prevents the formation of cholesterol plaques on the walls of blood vessels, which reduces the risk of atherosclerosis.

Regular consumption of cucumbers has a good effect on the work of the gastrointestinal tract, since fiber is present in vegetables. Due to the presence of iron and magnesium, cucumbers can be considered a preventive measure against anemia.

Of course, as with any product, cucumbers should not be abused. This is especially true of persons prone to edema, indigestion, allergic reactions. Occurs and individual intolerance to the vegetable. In addition, only cucumbers grown in the summer in the beds have the full spectrum of useful effects. Vegetables grown in the early spring in greenhouses using chemicals are not so useful.

However, the use of the healthy properties of cucumbers in food is not exhausted. Everyone knows the effect of fresh cucumber gruel after sunburn. The skin calms down, redness is removed. Also cucumber circles are applied to bruises to relieve pain, reduce bruising. Juice, extracts and extracts from cucumber are widely used in the cosmetic industry. There are many creams and lotions on the shelves that contain this substance. Some are even called "Cucumber".

Fresh cucumber is also often used in face masks at home. The fact is that vitamins and microelements are also needed for the human skin. If the skin becomes excessively dry, it begins to peel off, this indicates a lack of vitamin A. Vitamins A and E, folic acid are needed for skin prone to acne. Vitamin C is a great antioxidant that protects against premature aging and the appearance of wrinkles.

To protect the epidermis from the harmful effects of the environment need vitamin B1. Vitamins B5 and B6 help preserve the elasticity of the skin, help to improve the metabolic processes in it. Potassium helps retain moisture in the skin, adjusts the activity of the sebaceous glands, which is especially important for women with oily skin. Skin cells need oxygen, and vitamin B2 contributes to its delivery.

The effect of cucumber is also based on the content of substances such as niacin and phylloquinol. Niacin makes the skin more fresh, leveling its color, removes signs of fatigue. Bleaching is promoted by phylloquinol. It also removes redness and swelling. Finally, in a cucumber there is a lot of water, which is needed to moisturize the skin of any type.

Women wanted to be beautiful at all times. When the cosmetic industry did not yet exist, they used hand-made products or products grown in the garden to care for their face. Even then, it was noticed that a green vegetable has a beneficial effect on the skin. Cucumber helps to solve various problems. Masks are made from it for all skin types at any age.

• Since such masks act very gently, they can be applied to the delicate skin of the eyelids to relieve swelling. In the spring, when the lack of vitamins is especially noticeable, and the skin looks tired after winter, many women have dark circles under their eyes. And in such cases, the benefits of cucumber will be very tangible.
• For whatever purpose you use a cucumber mask, with whatever products you combine it, a cucumber in any case will have a moisturizing effect. Especially it will be useful for dry, prone to flaking of the skin.
• The calming effect of a vegetable is needed when redness and irritation appear, as well as after sunbathing.

• Many fair-haired and red-haired women with freckles appear on the face with the appearance of the spring sun, and by summer they become strongly pigmented, which spoils the overall skin tone. With age, freckles are getting brighter. Other girls suffer from acne. Acne is often inflamed, and after healing, pigmentation remains, which is very difficult to eliminate.
• Vegetable masks perfectly whiten skin. Both freckles, age spots and traces left after acne can be affected. Whitening will be more effective if you add other ingredients to the mask to enhance the effect, for example, lemon or parsley.
• In addition to the fact that fruit juice successfully fights with traces of acne, it helps to cleanse your face from comedones. Of course, steam bath cleaning will do the job faster. But in some situations there are serious contraindications for this, for example, the presence of dilated blood vessels.

• The use of cucumber will positively affect the condition of oily skin, as will be regulated sebum production and metabolic processes. It is no coincidence that industrial creams and lotions "Cucumber" are designed specifically for oily or combination skin.
• This wonderful vegetable is invaluable for aging skin due to its rejuvenating effect. It will help smooth out wrinkles, saturate the epidermis with antioxidants, will have a smoothing and tightening effect.
• Any method of applying a vegetable or a mask with it will tone and refresh the skin, nourish and return it to a smooth tone, make it velvety and supple.

As a rule, the use of cucumber for cosmetic purposes does not cause adverse effects. For such purposes, you should use a vegetable grown in an environmentally friendly method without the use of chemicals that can cause allergic reactions. However, even if you use a vegetable grown on your own garden, some contraindications are still available.

In rare cases, individual intolerance. It may also be that you are allergic to any other component of the cucumber mask, such as honey or lemon juice. Do not use a cucumber or any other mask in the presence of skin wounds, scratches and other damage.

Contraindications may be extensive pustular lesions. The mask can provoke a transfer of infection from one area of ​​the skin to another and cause even more severe inflammation.

Preparing cosmetics from cucumber at home does not require significant efforts and time-consuming. Vegetable must be fresh, without damage and rotten places. Wash thoroughly before use.

If you have a tired look and swelling under the eyes, and in the evening there will be a festive event, with the help of a cucumber you will clean up your face in a short time. To do this, cut cucumber into circles and place them on the face, including the eyelids. Keep the mask should be 10-15 minutes.

If for any reason you do not want to prepare masks, even wiping your face with a slice of cucumber will have the effect. It will tone and whiten the skin.

Dry skin, which is characterized by early wilting and the formation of wrinkles, needs moisturizing and nourishing. In the mask, you can add a couple of tablespoons of sour cream with high fat content. Sour cream can be replaced with cream or a tablespoon of cottage cheese and half a spoonful of olive oil.

The oat mask will also be good. To 3 spoons of chopped cucumber add 3 spoons of grated carrots and a teaspoon of oatmeal. Carrots can be crushed in a blender. Put on a mask for 15-20 minutes.

To smooth out wrinkles, increase the elasticity of loose skin, you can apply the composition with the addition of 2 tablespoons of honey. This nutritional composition is suitable for those who are not allergic to honey. The composition will refresh and moisturize the skin, giving it smoothness.

Good result gives mixing cucumber gruel with cosmetic clay.

All masks after the end of exposure wash off with cool water. If necessary, apply a thin layer of cream.

For oily skin, you can use cucumber ice. To do this, chopped vegetable or juice, squeezed out of it, freeze in small molds. If you wipe your face with a piece of ice in the morning, it will tone up, tighten pores and regulate the activity of the sebaceous glands.

Cucumber water is very effective in treating oily skin with acne. To prepare it is very simple. You need to grate the vegetable on a fine grater, put it in a glass container and pour it with plain water. Then the jar should be left in a cool dark place for 7-10 days. After that, the tincture must be filtered and stored in the refrigerator.

For very porous skin, you can use another recipe. Take 30 g of fresh cucumber juice, lemon juice, vodka. Add to them 60 g of decoction of rose petals and 10 g of glycerin. You can use the lotion for a long time, if you store it in the refrigerator.

You can easily find a variety of recipes for cucumber formulations in special magazines and on the Internet. As for the feedback on the effects of cucumber masks, they are mostly positive. Many women say they use vegetables for cosmetic purposes from a young age. They like the fact that the compositions are easily and quickly prepared, and there are almost no contraindications for use.

Some women say that cucumber masks helped them cope with inflammation and enlarged pores. Others point out that this is an excellent natural tonic and whitening agent that replaces creams in the summer season. There are reviews and beauticians, who advise the use of vegetables as women aged and young girls.

It should be understood that only a freshly prepared mask will bring benefit, therefore, if you have not used the entire prepared composition, throw away the remnants, they cannot be stored even in the refrigerator. It is also worth noting that although cucumber is a wonderful cosmetic, and even a single application leaves a visible result, you need to take care of the face permanently to achieve a lasting effect.

See the following video for a recipe for a cucumber whitening mask.