Benefits Of Cucumber You Probably Did Not Know About

Benefits of Cucumber You Probably did not Know About.

Hello everyone, hope you are doing well. After a long time, I am back with a new post today.

As it is summer, I thought why not write on benefit of cucumber. As we all know that cucumber is very good in summer for our health as well as skin.

To start with, crunchy Cucumber- the name itself is very soothing in this scorching summer. We love to have cucumber to satiate our thrust. don’t we?

Let’s know all about cucumber and how it helps us to stay healthy and beautiful.

Heath Benefits of Cucumber:

Lets start with health benefits first. A good health always results in good skin and hair. So our first aim should be to keep our heath in good condition.

Helps in Hydration:

If you  also  forget to drink water like me, No worries. Munch on cool cucumbers. It will compensate for that.

Because, cucumber is nothing but 96% water. So what are you waiting for !!!..start having cucumber from now to up your daily water intake  🙂

Helps in Losing weight 

Wanna loose some kilos ?? No worries, because cucumber is here.

Include cucumber in your salad and have it before lunch. It will make you eat less at lunch 😛

Also cucumber is very low in calories so your overall calorie intake will reduce over the time and will lead to weight loss. Even here we can see how cucumber helps in weight loss.

Keeps Stomach healthy

Having stomach problem like acidity constipation or others ?

Make cucumber your best friend. cucumber peel is a very good source of fiber.Regular intake of cucumber helps in reducing constipation and treating indigestion and other stomach related issues.

Helps Beat Hangover

You are not yet over with your last night hangover?

Why not eat some cucumber or drink cucumber water. It will help in reducing the intensity of hangover and headache associated with it by flushing out all the toxin from your body due to alcohol and replenishing the body’s nutrients.

Beats Bad Breath

Many of us suffer from bad breath sometime or the other.

Using cucumber regularly will help in relieving those bad breath and providing us fresh breath.

Beauty Benefits Of Cucumber:

We discussed few health benefits of cucumber. Lets dive into beauty benefits now.

Treats Puffy Eyes

• Puffy eyes:  this is what we most of the time wake up with. But why worry when cucumber is there.
• Cucumbers can provide instant relief. It contains ascorbic acid and caffeic acid which brings down the water retention rate of eyes. Hence reducing the swelling and puffiness of eyes.
• Simply you need to cut two slice of cucumber and keep one slice on each of your eyes for 10 minutes and you are done. Applying cucumber juice helps to get rid of dark circles around the eyes. 🙂

Treats Dull Skin

• Having dull and lifeless skin? well, cucumber is a natural toner and it has cooling properties. So it helps in improving a dull greasy complexion.
• It can be  used as an astringent to cleanse the skin. Simply you need to puree the cucumber and extract juice of it and apply all over your face and neck. Leave it for 20 minutes. Rinse with cold water. Your skin will feel refreshed.

Provides Glowing Skin

• Want glowing skin with minimized pores and tightened skin? Use cucumber slices for the same.
• cut cucumber into slices,keep slices on your whole face and eye and let your skin absorb all the benefits of cucumber. Keep it for 30 minutes and then wash your face with cool water.
• It gives instant glowing skin. This is very relaxing  as well. You can do it in weekends to feel stress free and beautiful 🙂

Helps Get Rid Of Blemish

• If those stubborn blemishes irritates you, use grated cucumber  or juice of cucumber to treat the blemishes.
• You can also mix some drops of lemon with the cucumber juice to make it even more effective.
• Apply the mixture on all over your face and neck. Leave it for 15 minutes and wash it wish water. Use regularly to treat those spots and you will be happy with the results.

This was my take on benefits of cucumber. I hope you had a good time reading it. Please leave your comments and suggestion to improve. Thanks for reading 🙂

With Love,Preeti

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