Cucumber Facts and Cures

Cucumber Recipes for Natural Skin Care

Cucumbers are usually cheap and readily available. They have an amazing number of uses for natural cures. According to Pamela Allardice writing in her book Natural Remedies A-Z cucumber’s ability to eliminate water from the body makes it very important for those with heart and kidney problems. It also helps dissolve uric acid accumulations such as kidney and bladder stones. Constipation is helped greatly by cucumber salad. The best cucumbers to use are those fully ripe, when starting to turn yellow.

For skin and cosmetic uses, cucumber juice can be applied to the skin as a toning, refreshing lotion, or blended into a cream; it is excellent as an inclusion in any ointment or lotion used for treating burns, chafing or dry or flaking skin.

Recipe for Cucumber Juice:

Wash the cucumbers thoroughly and then cut them, with the skin on, into small pieces.

Put the pieces in an earthen ware or porcelain dish.

Pour enough hot water over them to cover, put over a low heat and let simmer for half an hour or more. Be careful not to burn them.

Strain the mixture through a colander.

Alternative Recipe for Cucumber Juice:

Cut cucumbers into very small pieces.

Mash them to a pulp (you can put them in the blender or food processor)

Squeeze through cheesecloth or a sieve.

This method gives you the pure fresh juice, or essence of cucumber.

Cucumber juice is appears in many beauty care recipes. Here is one for a cleansing tonic, which is also very useful in treating chapped hands.

Recipe for Cucumber Cleanser with Rosewater

90 ml cucumber juice
90 ml distilled water
45 ml rosewater

Combine all ingredients in a lidded jar and shake well to mix. Rub into skin thoroughly, and then rinse with tepid water.

Recipe for Cucumber Cleanser with Milk:

Peel half a cucumber and blend it in the food processor until you have a smooth liquid, then put this through a sieve.

Combine with 250 ml whole milk and blend well.

This will keep well in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

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