Honey Skin Care Solutions

November 8, 2008 by admin  
Filed under Natural Skin Care

Everyone wants to feel and look good, and there are people who go to great lengths just to achieve a beautiful appearance. A lot of these people spend thousands of money for anti-wrinkle treatments that mostly doesn’t offer a permanent result. But, before rushing off to a spa or expensive skin care clinic, you might try to find solutions for your skin right in your own kitchen and you might just find what you need is sweet and beneficial honey!

Actually, the use of honey skin care has been around for centuries, Egyptians, Romans, and Persians were all aware of the nutritional and health value of honey. Celtic tribes made use of honey just as an ointment mixture. It can be used for nurturing skin and, as the ancients found out, it can also be effective in promoting fast healing and even reducing pain.

Honey is made up of eighty percent sugar with vitamins and mineral elements like vitamin B, vitamin C, amino acids, phosphorous, iron, calcium and magnesium. Water is also a main composition of this bee produced treatment.

The following are the benefits from honey skin care
• Sweet Honey is widely used by skin care corporations, it is being made as an integral part for many company’s exclusive products that hydrates the skin and wardss off wrinkles.
• It rejuvenates the skin since it has antioxidant properties.
• Honey conditions as well as moisturizes the skin to reveal smooth and hydrated skin.
• Healing of cracked and dried lips is also a benefit of honey.
• Just like in the ancient times, it is still being used as a remedy and to cure wounds on the skin.
• Bees not only make honey, they also produce royal jelly, bee pollen and beeswax that can also provide you with a health benefits aside from just being a honey skin care solution.

Honey Skin Care Recipes:

1. Honey as a skin exfoliator
Combine chopped up almonds and a spoonful of honey. Apply to the skin by massage. Leave on for a few minutes for and then wash off with lukewarm water.

2. As a skin mask
Mix up in a bowl, a spoonful of cream, one egg yolk, one whole banana, and one spoonful of honey. Spread the mixture over the neck and face. After twenty minutes of leaving it on, wash off with warm water.

3. Remedy for acne and fine lines
You will need two spoons of honey with added one spoon of almond oil. Rub on to the skin for three to five minutes, then let on for another twenty minutes. Take off by rinsing with warm water followed by a cold one.

4. Honey to revitalize your skin
Blend honey and lemon juice together then spread all over the neck and face for just about twenty minutes. Use warm water for rinsing off.

5. To lessen the bulge under your eyes
Just add four spoonful of water to one spoon of honey. Use cotton balls to dab the solution gently under the eyes for ten minutes. Rinse off with cold water.

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