Benefits of Honey in Skin Care

Honey is one of the common ingredients in kitchen for making delicious taste and to form different herbal medicines for the treatment of different ailments. But there is more uses of honey as it is great skin care tonic and there are lots of home made honey recipe available at easy access which can do wonder on skin beauty.

Some easy honey made skin care recipes are narrated here. All these recipes are self-help and do-it-yourself type processes which can be done at home alone.

We need to grate an entire fresh cucumber and the extract should be drained out of the pulp. We have to add two teaspoonfuls honey in it. The pulp and honey combo has to be smeared on face and neck by a cotton pad. Let the toner dry in air and then have to wash it out by cold water.

Take one grated apple and two tea spoonfuls honey. We need to make a smooth paste out of these two ingredients and the paste is to be applied on face, neck, and hands and retain the application for 15-20 minutes followed by thorough  water wash.

Gentle honey cleanser is applicable for wintry month for dry to oily skin type because this home made cleanser helps in retaining the external hydration level of skin tone. In order to prepare this home made cleanser we have to mix together, ¼ cupful honey, one tablespoon liquid soap, and ½ cup glycerin from drug stores. This cleanser should be applied to skin tone with a face sponge and then wash off with lukewarm water.

We can prepare face scrubs with honey. In order to prepare face scrubs with honey and oat we have to mix one table spoon honey, one tablespoon powdered almond, two tablespoon oatmeal, some lemon juice or 2-3 teaspoon yogurt together; the ingredients together will form a good quality facial scrub and applicable for all year around for all types of skin. The face mask application should be followed by warm water-wash of the mask from skin.

Honey can be used at hair scalp for conditioning of dry and damaged hair. We need to mix together ¼ cup of honey, ¼ cup of olive oil together and apply it on scalp. Gentle massage of scalp with this conditioner will help to impose softness of hair volume.

Combination of egg white and honey makes a good quality facemask; it helps in removal of tanning from face caused by over sun exposure.