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 quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.

3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.

4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.

5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!!

6. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!

7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.

8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don’t have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.

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 fingernails while you clean.

13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!

There is a new Organic line of products out and on the shelves at Chapters and I am sure many other stores called Beautea. An Organic Tea based lotion that looks great, smells great and works great too. (i tested it). However my upset came when I tried to look up the ingredients on the box. To my surprise there were no ingredients listed. I checked the bottle of Beatea lotion and only the Organic Teas were listed. No mention of any other ingredients (which there always is).

My first reaction when I cannot find ingredients is to put whatever I am looking at back down as the company is usually hiding something. Maybe this is not true in all cases, but I have found it to be true in many.

So I set the overpriced $20.00 bottle of hand lotion back down. A general rule I love by is that I won’t buy something that goes on my skin or my childrens with out knowing exactly what is in that product.

I am not sure if you are aware, but your skin is the largest organ on our body and absorbs everything you put on it. To stay healthy we follow a simple rule. If you can’t eat it then you shouldn’t put it on your skin.

Since I liked the product I decided to email them when I returned home to get a product list. They kindle sent me it in 24hrs but questioned my asking. ???

Below I have copy and pasted the ingredient listing from their Moisturizing Body Lotion, exactly as I was sent it. At a quick glance it looked good, but once I slowed my eyes down I ended up dissapointed with this new Organic body lotion from PureLiving.ca. I have bolded the ingredients that should cause concern to you.

Beautea (pureliving.ca) INGREDIENT LISTING
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Beautea Organic Body Lotion / Moisturizing Body Lotion / 250 ml – 8.5 fl oz

Water (Aqua), Certified Organic Sesame (Sesamum Indicum) Oil, Stearic Acid, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetyl Alcohol, Carbomer 941, Tocopheryl acetate (Vitamin E), T.E.A., Certified Organic Fragrance, Certified Organic Ginseng (Panax Ginseng) Extract, Certified Organic Green Tea (Camellia Sinensis) Extract, Certified Organic Lemon (Citrus Limon) Oil, Certified Organic Orchid (Cymbidiums) Extract, Certified Organic Oolong (Oleum Amygdalarum Amarum) Extract, Certified Organic Soybean (Glycine Max) Oil, Certified Organic Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus) Oil, Sesame (Sesamum Indicum) Oil, Shea Butter (Butyrospermum Parkii).

Their product is loaded with great ingredients and organic ones at that but these two ingredients are unsafe to put on your body and should cause concern.

Here is a little bit of info on these two ingredients and why you should not use them.

T.E.A is usually a combination Triethanolamine and Diethanolamine (also known as D.E.A) but can sometimes be just Triethanolamine & water.

TEA is a synthetic emulsifier. Over 40% of cosmetics containing Triethanolamine (TEA), have been found to be contaminated with nitrosamines, which are potent carcinogens.

If we break it down you have Diethanolamine, which is a foaming agent widely used in personal care products such as shampoos, hair dyes, and bath products. DEA can also be found in some pesticide formulations, as a so-called inert ingredient.

Products containing DEA may be contaminated with nitrosamines, some of which may cause cancer, if the product contains nitrites as a preservative. Nitrosamines may accidentally contaminate DEA-containing products as well.

European Union restricts DEA use to 1% of any cosmetic ingredient. But in the U.S., there are no such regulations. Manufacturers are advised by the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association to limit DEA usage to five times what is accepted in Europe. This is not acceptable and just another thing wrong with the United States and something that makes us think many things link back to the big medical industry!

My advice to you is to not use products that contain DEA.

My advice to you is to not use products that contain  (T.E.A) Triethanolamine.

These chemicals are already restricted in Europe due to known carcinogenic effects. Repeated skin applications of DEA-based products resulted in a major increase in the incidence of liver and kidney cancer.

If you want to support the American Medical Industry and bring their wrong standards into Canada, then by all means buy their toxic laced organic products and join the long list of patients that support the medical industry by poisoning themselves.

My advice is when you come across products that contain ingredients that are known cacarcinogens or toxins is to email or call the company and let them know your dissappointment with their products ingredients. Let them know you will not buy it and let them know you will inform all your friends about the toxic ingredients they use.

The more we voice ourselves as consumers and people who deserve to keep our health when using products. The more the world will change.