The Amazing Cucumber

1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber

2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber.  Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that

3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower?  Try rubbing a cucumber

4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds?  Place a few slices in a small pie tin

5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? 

6. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache?  Eat a few cucumber slices before

7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been

8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have

9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge?  Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!

10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa?  Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.

11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints?  Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.

12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel?  Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won't leave streaks and won't harm you fingers or fingernail s while you clean.