I love honey; love eating it, love the smell, love the gorgeous, golden color, love how God designed the whole bee-flower-honey system. I also love to use it on my face!
Honey is so good for your skin and if you're looking for all natural skin care, well, it doesn't come much more natural than pure, raw honey.
Raw honey is antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, moisturizing, and clarifying. It contains minerals, enzymes, vitamins, amino acids, and even probiotics.
It helps heal your skin, can help with acne and wrinkles and skin infections or chronic skin conditions.
And also, it smells so good!
Side note: all these things mean that raw honey is very good for your insides too, but that's another conversation. 😏
My personal favorite way to use honey on my skin is to apply a good layer over my whole face and neck before climbing into a nice, hot bath. I usually leave it on for 30-60 minutes. When I wash it off, my skin is SO SOFT and glowing and feels clean (but not stripped).
I really like to use Manuka Honey, which Trader Joe's often carries for a reasonable price, since Manuka honey in particular is very high in all the good enzymes and antioxidants and is very healing, inside and out.
Regular honey works great too, just make sure that it is raw! Pasteurization/heating will kill off alot of the good stuff in the honey.
I've also made face masks and scrubs with honey.
You can try some honey mixed with bentonite clay and a drop of water to make a nice detoxifying face mask.
You can also try adding a bit of cinnamon to a palmful of honey to make an exfoliating scrub. Test on a small area first, as some people are sensitive to cinnamon, and also make sure you don't scrub too hard. (My skin has been slightly red after and a little tingly, but if it burns, then you probably shouldn't use it.)
Honey also makes a nice, gentle face wash before bed. Just rub some honey on your face and rinse with warm water.
I really like applying honey to my face before a bath because for one, honey softens with your body heat, so it can get a little drippy to just walk around like that, but also, the steam from the bath seems to really let the honey work its magic on my face.😊 Plus, I keep it on alot longer this way too.
Let me know what you think if you try it! 💛
Honey is so good for your skin and if you're looking for all natural skin care, well, it doesn't come much more natural than pure, raw honey.
Raw honey is antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, moisturizing, and clarifying. It contains minerals, enzymes, vitamins, amino acids, and even probiotics.
It helps heal your skin, can help with acne and wrinkles and skin infections or chronic skin conditions.
And also, it smells so good!
Side note: all these things mean that raw honey is very good for your insides too, but that's another conversation. 😏
My personal favorite way to use honey on my skin is to apply a good layer over my whole face and neck before climbing into a nice, hot bath. I usually leave it on for 30-60 minutes. When I wash it off, my skin is SO SOFT and glowing and feels clean (but not stripped).
I really like to use Manuka Honey, which Trader Joe's often carries for a reasonable price, since Manuka honey in particular is very high in all the good enzymes and antioxidants and is very healing, inside and out.
Regular honey works great too, just make sure that it is raw! Pasteurization/heating will kill off alot of the good stuff in the honey.
I've also made face masks and scrubs with honey.
You can try some honey mixed with bentonite clay and a drop of water to make a nice detoxifying face mask.
You can also try adding a bit of cinnamon to a palmful of honey to make an exfoliating scrub. Test on a small area first, as some people are sensitive to cinnamon, and also make sure you don't scrub too hard. (My skin has been slightly red after and a little tingly, but if it burns, then you probably shouldn't use it.)
Honey also makes a nice, gentle face wash before bed. Just rub some honey on your face and rinse with warm water.
I really like applying honey to my face before a bath because for one, honey softens with your body heat, so it can get a little drippy to just walk around like that, but also, the steam from the bath seems to really let the honey work its magic on my face.😊 Plus, I keep it on alot longer this way too.
Let me know what you think if you try it! 💛
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