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Honey Do: Kitchen Cupboard Beauty Tips
By Cait Johnson, author of Witch in the Kitchen (Inner Traditions, 2001).
There is simply no sweeter way to bring a smooth glow to your skin and hair than with glorious golden honey.
Here are some fabulous uses for this almost-magical substance, held in the highest esteem by wise ones—and savvy beauties—for millennia.
After all, honey is one of the oldest and most effective beauty aids ever. Discover a few ancient secrets, right here. They’re the bees’ knees!
1. Honey Pat. This is the best way to bring a lively glow to your face and body while you moisturize and smooth. And it’s so much fun! Just bring one of those cute little honey-bears into the tub with you. Squeeze some honey anywhere on your skin and pat it with both hands. As you continue to pat your skin, the honey gets really sticky, and will pull up your skin gently with every pat. This is the BEST for circulation, and you’ll end up with a gorgeous glow. Rinse off the honey when you’ve had enough.
2. Honey Bath. If you don’t have time to pat-and-glow, just add 1/4 cup or so of honey to your bath. Mmmm—sweet, silky, and luscious skin.
3. Honey Shiny Hair. Mix 1 teaspoon honey, a squeeze of fresh lemon, and 1 quart of warm water. After shampooing, simply pour through hair. Let your hair dry as you normally would; you don’t need to rinse it out.
4. Moisturizing Honey Mask. Mix 2 tablespoons honey and 2 teaspoons milk or cream. Smooth on face and allow to remain for 10 minutes, then rinse.
5. Honey-Apple Toner. This sweet alpha-hydroxy miracle will help to firm, smooth, and moisturize your skin. In a blender or food processor, combine 1 peeled, cored apple with a tablespoon of honey and pulse until smooth. Apply pulp gently to face and allow to remain for 15 minutes, then rinse.
6. Good-Enough-to-Eat Facial Cleansing Scrub. Combine 1 tablespoon honey, 1 tablespoon finely-ground almonds, 2 tablespoons dry oatmeal, and enough lemon juice to moisten. Massage mixture gently onto face, then rinse with warm water.
7. Honey Hair Conditioning Treatment. This great formula combines the benefits of honey and olive oil for lustrous, silky, healthy hair and scalp. Simply combine 1/2 cup honey and 2 tablespoons to 1/4 cup olive oil (depending on the dryness of your hair and scalp). Saturate hair and scalp with this conditioner, then put on a shower cap and allow the conditioner to remain for 30 minutes before you shampoo and rinse as usual.
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*Sigh* Even organic honey may not offer the help you need, and even worse, may hurt your skin and health. As a result of the bee population due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CDD), researchers have discovered something horrifying: Even organic honey produced in rural, 'clean' areas have a disturbingly high amount of pesticides in it from the contaminated pollen bees collect. Test a little honey on the underside of your arm just below the pit to see if you have any sensitivity to any contaminates the honey may contain.
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Is raw honey okay for diabetics?
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Honey is wonderful... Just make sure to read the labels! A lot of honey blends are mostly sugar with as little as 10 or 20% honey - and it will NOT have the effect you desire on your skin.
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Honey is great for your skin. It has the ability to attract water from the air making it a wonderful moisturizer. It is also safe for sensitive skin. Honey is composed of sugars like glucose and fructose and minerals like magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium chlorine, sulphur, iron and phosphate. Honey has powerful antimicrobial properties and because of its natural anti-inflammatory effect, it also helps to heal wounds more quickly. It also has different photochemical found in plants that kill viruses, bacteria, and fungus. It contains vitamins B1, B2, C, B6, B5 and B3 all of which comes from the nectar and pollen the bees gather. Honey also contains small quantities of copper, iodine, and zinc. Many vegetable hormones are also present in it. Studies show that burns also heal better with honey. The advantage of honey is that it not only prevents infections from occurring, it actually accelerates skin healing. It give hair body and shine, but if you dye your hair, keep in mind that honey does have a mild lightening effect.
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