13 Ways To Use Cucumbers In Your Beauty Routine

Summer is the perfect time to take advantage of cucumber’s benefits. This super refreshing vegetable is famous for being over 90% water, which makes it incredibly hydrating inside and out.

Famously cooling, cucumbers are super soothers for sunburned or sensitive skin. Their anti-inflammatory benefits are useful for tired, puffy eyes and acne scarring.

Cucumbers have high levels of caffeic acid that reduce swelling and irritation as well as silica that helps collagen formation for strong hair and nails. Most of the silica in cucumbers is found in the skin, so to get the most out of your cucumbers, buy organic and don’t peel them.

So when you chop just half a cucumber for that amazing new salad you found, save the rest for your face!

13 Cucumber Beauty Uses

Here are 13 ways to harness cucumber benefits for your skin:

1. Soothing Cucumber Lotion

This lotion soothes and regenerates your skin, making it especially useful if you’ve spent a little too much time in the sun.

2. Rose + Cucumber Eye Mask

Rich in ascorbic acid and phytochemicals, cucumbers help tighten and soothe skin. They are also known to reduce swelling and remove toxins from the body.

3. Probiotic Acne Mask

This mask calms skin with cucumbers as a natural anti-inflammatory and additional probiotics to nourish your skin’s microbiome. Apply to your face, avoiding the eyes, and massage gently into the skin.

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4. Cucumber Green Tea Body Spray

Combine the refreshing qualities of cucumber with the antioxidant effects of green tea in this cooling body spray.

5. Get rid of dark circles naturally

Cucumber slices reduce vascular congesting and cool the skin, which is just what your dark circles need to slowly fade away.

6. Cucumber Face Scrub

Refresh your skin for spring with a 3-step facial, starting with this gentle cucumber oats face scrub.

7. Beauty Sleep Face Mask

Get a healthy night’s sleep with a relaxing face mask made with cucumber and yogurt.

8. Acne Relief Cucumber Mask

Especially beneficial for recent acne scarring that may still have some residual inflammation, this simple cucumber mask is the perfect choice.

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9. Beauty-Boosting Ice Cubes

Get the best of both worlds with these tasty ice cubes that hydrate and alkalize the body while making your skin glow.

10. Moisturizing Cucumber + Oatmeal Bath

To soothe skin and help restore its moisture after staying in the sun for too long, this is the calming bath you’re looking for.

11. Calming Face Mask

While you’re drinking your cucumber water and pretending to be at the spa, you might as well help your skin with a cucumber, oats, yogurt and sage face mask. Cucumber and oatmeal are both soothing and anti-inflammatory, and yogurt is one of the easiest and most effective face masks because it soothes and gently exfoliates.