Cucumbers A Natural Moisturizer For Eyes

Cucumbers have an anti-inflammatory effect that reduces puffiness. The vegetable not only has a high water content, it but it's often stored in the refrigerator and comes out cold. This means that the water hydrates your skin, and the cool temperature decreases the flow of blood to the space around your eyes. Together, additional hydration and reduced blood flow can sooth the skin around your eyes and alleviate swelling.

Smoother, more hydrated skin around your eyes means less stretching and fewer lines and wrinkles in the future. Since the skin around your eyes is some of the thinnest tissue on your body, it is very susceptible to damage from stretching and swelling. While cucumbers might not be your choice for a daily eye moisturizer, they can help in a pinch when you realize your eyes are puffier than normal.

To use cucumbers as an eye treatment, grab a cold cucumber from the refrigerator and cut two thick slices. Then, find a comfortable place to relax and set the cucumbers over your closed eyes for about 10 to 15 minutes. The cucumbers will then act as a cold compress on your eye.

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Next time you're at the store, you might pick up a few extra cucumbers. Treating yourself to a weekly cucumber eye therapy session could prove beneficial in more ways than one. After all, your whole body can benefit from relaxation.

Your eyesight is your most precious sense so,keep your eyes beautiful, healthy, and well protected.
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Eye Strain

The human eye is an amazing organ that most of us rely on every waking moment of the day.  From morning till night, our vision allows us to see beautiful Florida sunsets, our beloved family and much more.  Here at 20/20 Eyeglass Superstore, our main goal is to keep you up-to-date on everything related to eye care and eye health.


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Essential Nutrients Your Eyes Need

Your eyesight is your most precious sense. Add the foods on this list into your weekly diet to keep your eyes beautiful, healthy, and well protected.

Your vision is priceless and it is important that you maintain your visual wellness by scheduling a yearly comprehensive eye exam with your optometrist or ophthalmologist.

Interesting Fact About Human Eye

It’s important to stay up to date on eye health information, especially because some eye conditions like Glaucoma have no symptoms.  As an adult, you might ask yourself, “Why get an eye exam?” Getting an annual eye exam can easily be forgotten, especially with work, family and other obligations. 

 

 Make sure you set a reminder in your smartphone or pencil it in to your calendar to get a regular eye exam every year. Eyes are an amazing and extremely interesting part of the body. Through their intricate design and composition, we are fortunate to have the precious gift of sight. I bet most of you have not stopped to think about the complexity of our eyes and the numerous elements that are involved in the process of seeing. Here are some interesting eye facts that you may not have known about your eyes.

• Your eyes are composed of more than 2 million working parts.
• We all have microscopic creatures lurking in our eyelashes.
• The average person blinks 12 times per minute – about 10,000 blinks on an average day.
• Color blindness is more common in males, about 1 in 10 have some form. In the most common type of color blindness, individuals have trouble telling the difference between red and green.
• Only 1/6 of your eye is exposed to the outside world.  It is 2.5 cm in length and weighs about 7 grams.
• The muscles that move the eye are the strongest relative to their size in the body.
• Your eyes begin to develop 2 weeks after conception.
• Your eyelashes act like windshields to catch dust and debris before they reach your eyeball.
• At birth your eyes are about 70% of their adult size, but your ears and nose never stop growing.
• The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet.
• The older we are the less tears we produce.
• When you blink, you shut your eyes for 0.3 seconds. That’s a total of 30 minutes each day!

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