How Honey for Skincare Can Revolutionize Your Face

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How to Use Common Kitchen Honey as a Skincare Product

These days, everyone is looking for ways to pinch pennies. In recessions, expensive skincare products are often the first to leave the budget. However, there are is an alternative to many of these high end skincare products, and it’s sitting right in your kitchen.
Honey makes a thrifty, organic and dynamic multipurpose skincare tool. It can single-handedly replace at least three different products in your regimen and work better than all three while doing it.

It is important to consider first what type of honey you want to use. Raw honey, honey that is never heated above 105 degrees Fahrenheit, is often more effective as food or as skincare. Raw honey contains enzymes that heated and processed honey does not. It has more antibacterial and antifungal power than heated honey, but it is often thicker and harder to use, with the texture of peanut butter. If you’re looking to use raw honey on your face, raw sage or tupelo honey is best. They are soft and liquid even when raw and will flow freely.

Despite the significant advantages of raw honey, processed honey does remain a viable option. It is slightly cheaper and retains some benefits, and is gentler for sensitive skin.

One of the most common skincare uses of honey is as a mask. Honey is a humectant – it draws and binds water from the air into your skin. A honey mask works best applied to slightly damp skin and left for 15 minutes up to an hour. This will hydrate and soften your skin and can be done every other day or as needed. It makes a miraculously soothing after-sun treatment for sunburnt or reddened skin.

Honey is also a very effective spot treatment for pimples and whiteheads due to honey’s antibacterial properties. Dabbing a bit of honey over an emerging or already existing spot of acne will kill off existing bacteria and prevent new bacteria from spreading. This can be left on as long as needed and reapplied as often as desired. Using honey as a spot treatment for acne has the added benefit of moisturizing any dry areas that harsh acne treatments have left raw and dry.

Honey makes a wonderful cleanser. While it will not remove waterproof makeup or sunscreen, as a freshening cleanser for skin in the morning its worth is unparallelled. Wet your face and your hands and smooth a dollop of honey around your face as you would any cleanser. You could also mix water straight into the honey in the palm of your hand for easier spreading. Cleanse as long as you would with any cleanser and splash off.


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Honey has many uses even making your skin glowing. Can you believe it! Honey can be antibactireal and antifungal, most of us snobs honey in our kitchen which is very beneficial and healthy. Now go to your kitchen and find honey, use it as your beauty regimen.

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