10 Ways To Use Honey Skincare & Beauty Benefits

10 Ways To Use Honey Skincare & Beauty Benefits

Honey is one of the most natural and purest ingredients found in nature. Honey can be eaten for good health but it is an equally good skincare ingredient. Honey has a wide range of uses right from being a moisturiser, a toner to even being a good antiseptic. Honey is being used from olden days and is not a new beauty formula. Honey is known to be rich in sugar content in addition to having minerals and other elements including iron, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and amino acids. Honey is also known to have vitamins C, B and water. Not only Indians, even Greeks, Persians, Egyptians and Romans are known to have used honey widely. Folklore is full of stories related to use of honey that include Cleopatra who is understood to have bathed using milk and honey or even Poppea, the wife of Nero, who used honey and milk as a facial pack. In the current times, honey is not only used by individuals in their homes, it is also widely used by cosmetic firms to cure varied ailments and in a variety of cosmetic products suiting varied skin types. The uses of honey can be enumerated as under along with Honey Skincare & Beauty Benefits:

 

  1. It is a good moisturiser: Due to its humectant qualities, honey can be used as a moisturiser. It helps to safeguard the skin against dryness and wrinkles.
  2. It has antiseptic attributes: Honey is a good healer due to its antimicrobial and antibacterial properties. Honey produces the enzyme – hydrogen peroxide which prevents growth of bacteria. Hence, honey can be used as a natural ingredient to cure wounds, cuts and to promote healing.
  3. Anti-ageing properties: Honey has several antioxidant properties which can be beneficial in protecting the skin against ultraviolet rays. Honey can thus be used as a good sunscreen preventing damage to the skin and premature ageing.
  4. Anti-acne properties: Honey can help to reduce acne as it can fight off infections by unclogging pores and killing bacteria that cause acne.
  5. Skin conditioning: Honey is an effective skin conditioner when mixed with oil and lemon juice.
  6. As a toner: Honey can be mixed with de-seeded apple to work as a good toner and to keep the skin firm.
  7. Protecting Lips: Due to its moisturising attributes honey can be used as a good lip protector to heal chapped and wrinkled lips.
  8. Exfoliation: Honey can be used as a gentle exfoliator for the face when used with finely grounded oatmeal or almonds or even dried green tea leaves.
  9. Treating infections: A special kind of honey – manuka honey has proved to successfully cure common skin infections such as jock itch and athlete’s foot especially because of the anti-fungal properties it contains.
  10. Curing eczema: Manuka honey has also been found to have properties that cure eczema. Honey is known to cure damaged skin and regenerate skin cells.

Thus, honey in various forms suits varied skin kinds. It can be considered to be a good ingredient which can be used to moisturise, cleanse, tone, protect and even treat damaged skin with loads of beauty benefits.

 

*Written by Apsara

3 Comments

  • September 15, 2015

    perksofbeauty

    I have always used it in my hair masks and face packs.. It does wonders to dry skin.
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  • September 16, 2015

    Sunitha

    I have not tried honey on my face , will try this weekend 🙂 .

  • October 27, 2015

    Ankita

    I used lemon and honey mask to prevent acne and it’s scars. It works well. W.hat I do not like is the stickiness. nice informative post. 🙂