The majority of ordinary people still use cucumber as a vegetable only complement, only a handful of people who know the properties behind the freshness of the cucumber, it was still many who do not know how to use it. Cucumber not only as a complement to eat but also useful for treating beauty and useful also for health
Cucumber Nutrition Ingredients
Besides can be consumed in raw form, fresh cucumber taste good also processed as a mixture of vegetables. Cucumbers contain 0.65% protein, 0.1% fat and carbs as much as 2.2%. Also contains calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and vitamin C.
Cucumbers are also said to contain 35,100 to 486,700 ppm linoleic acid as the Cucurbitaceae family which usually contain kukurbitasin, cucumbers may also contain these compounds. Kukurbitasin are compounds that have activity as anti-tumor.
Cucumber Benefits for Beauty
~ Astringent Cucumber
One easy way to reduce the glow of oil in oily skin:
Cut 1 / 2 cucumber, peeled and input in a blender and blend until smooth. Apply on face and leave for 15 minutes. Rinse with cold water and lightly pat dry face.
~ Mask Cucumber – Avocado
This formula works for everything: maintenance, shrink pores, and helps lift the skin cells and make skin Matu fresher.
Blend all ingredients until smooth:
1 / 2 cup grated cucumber
1 / 2 cup avocado
1 egg white
2 teaspoons powdered milk.
A cold for 30 minutes, then apply on face and neck. Let stand for 30 minutes, then wash with warm water. Splash of cold water and afterwards pat dry.
Masks ~ Leather Cleaning
If you usually have a problem with stains on the face, this mask will help you prevent it.
Blend until smooth material:
1 / 2 cucumber, peeled
1 tablespoon nonfat milk
1 tablespoon yogurt
Apply on face and leave for 20 minutes, then flush with water.
~ Shining Skin Care For
If your skin is dull and oily, this recipe will help to make skin look more radiant and glowing.
1 teaspoon butter cucumber
Add a little rose water
Apply on face and leave for 15 minutes, then wash with warm water.
~ Relieves puffy eyes
Lack of sleep usually makes your eyes so puffy, but do not worry cucumbers can help overcome this problem.
Cut two slices of cucumber, lie down and right and the location of these pieces in each of your eyes. Let stand for 15 minutes, then lift.
~ Reduce Dark Circles Under Eyes petals
1. Apply cucumber jelly, may own or mixed with carrot juice on the dark circles under the eyes. Let stand for 20 minutes then wash with cold water.
2. Combine cucumber jelly with milk and chill for 30 minutes. Apply at the bottom of the eye and let stand for 20 minutes. Rinse with cold water.
Cucumber Benefits for Health
~ Seed cucumber own alkoloid toxic hipoxanti type, which is used to treat children – children who suffer from intestinal worms.
~ If you suffer from pain in the throat causing hard to talk to (cough) can be treated with cucumber seeds. How: some cucumber seeds are mixed with a little salt and gargle several times a day. This treatment is believed to restore the lost votes due to illness is.
~ Disease giddy – giddy that sustained weight loss can be overcome by consuming raw cucumber or cooked. Also, cucumbers can also be used to treat dysentery.
~ Cucumber is also often utilized as a drug natural beauty. Take the taste of fruit is washed and shredded. Used to compress the fever, appended to the wounds, burns, stains on the skin rash, acne, cleaning greasy facial skin and reduce itching skin.
Cucumber perishable, so be sure to use every beauty recipes mentioned above immediately after him. Good luck.
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January 10th, 2010
maya
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