Beauty Benefits: Honey for Face

Honey is something which everyone of us should make a habit in their life. There are so many uncountable benefits from it we can gain. Especially for your skin, it works wonders! The best Honey is obviously the Pure one, now that's a gamble to get!

Due to its many beneficial properties, it helps to heal almost every skin type in every skin problems/infections. Lets see some common ones:

1. Acne: Honey is naturally antibacterial, so it's great for acne treatment and prevention.
2. Ageing: Full of antioxidants, it is great for slowing down ageing.
3. Complexion boost: It is extremely moisturising and soothing, so it helps create a glow.
4. Pores: Honey is clarifying because it opens up pores making them easy to unclog.

Now lets see how you can use honey for the above skin problems.

Direct Honey Mask

The Easiest thing to get softer and more radiant looking skin, Just apply a thin layer of Honey directly on the skin. Massage it for a minute and leave it for 10 minutes as a mask. Rinse it off with warm water. You can do this weekly before bedtime and sleep with light moisturiser overnight.

Honey Sugar Exfoliator - 

Just 2 table spoons of honey + 1 table spoon fine granulated sugar + few drops of Lemon juice, and you have your own DIY Face and Body Scrub. The sugar will act as an exfoliant to get rid of dead skin and Honey act as a medium and sooth and cleanse out the exfoliated skin and the lime will act as a skin lightner. You can do this once or twice a week to get rid of all the dead skin and make your skin smooth and clear.

Honey Spot Treatment -

If a zit popped up and you want to reduce the redness and slow down its growth, just add a drop of Tea Tree oil or Lavender oil to a drop of honey and using a cotton swab mix and dab directly on the zit overnight. The next day the zit will reduce and the redness will minimize!

Honey Facial - 

For this you need 1 tbsp raw honey + 1 tbsp olive oil and Yolk of an egg. Mix it all together and apply on face like a mask. Leave it on for 20 minutes and Rinse! Instant Facial for a party :)

Multani Mitti Honey Mask - 

If you have aged skin or suffering from large pores, this is helpful in minimizing those signs. Multani Mitti (Fuller's Earth) is a very natural face mask used for ages in India. Just form a paste by adding Honey into the Multani mitti and apply on skin. Let it soak in your skin till the mask becomes hard and dry. This will help tightening your pores and reduce elasticity of ageing skin. rinse off with warm water and apply moisturiser.

Honey Almond Scrub - 

Grind 2-3 almonds finely, add a table spoon of honey and a little lemon juice. Use this paste to scrub your face gently to get rid of dead cells and brighten up your complexion!

Honey Face Wash - 

Yes! Due to its cleansing properties, honey can also be used as a daily cleanser. Well a lot of cleansers out there have honey in them. We can make our own cleanser by adding rose water/ milk, turmeric powder and sandalwood powder to honey. Mixing everything well and cleansing the face. Turmeric too has many anti-bacterial and healing properties, plus if you are suffering from facial hair use this cleanser daily to reduce the growth of facial hair.

Now lets see some Skin remedies using honey especially for Acne prone skin, a very battling topic among most of the teenagers and adults too.

Honey Lemon Pack - 

Just Add a few drops of Lemon juice to a little honey and apply on the entire face or just the acne affected area and leave it on for 20 minutes. Rinse with luke warm water. This will dry out the existing acne and also stop the bacteria to spread creating new acne.

Honey Sandalwood Pack -

Similar recipe; add sandalwood powder in honey and apply as pack. The sandalwood will help in reducing the blemishes and acne scars.

Honey Oats Pack -

Apply a mixture of ground oats and honey and let it dry. Before washing, damp the skin and exfoliate well without being harsh on your acne prone skin. This face pack doubles as a scrub too.

Cooling Honey Pack -

Mix honey with chilled milk and grated cucumber. Apply on face for ten minutes before rinsing it with warm water. This is excellent to use in summer and the cucumber will cool down the skin and acne making your skin feeling relaxed.

Glowing Tomato-Honey Pack -

Blend in ripe tomato and honey together to form a thick paste and leave it on for 20 minutes then rinse. Tomato also has bleaching properties, thus giving you clean glowing skin.

NOTE: Honey can clear your skin only if your acne has arisen from bacterial problems.  For those of you whose acne is a result of irritation, hormones, or any other cause, honey might not do much.  However, it helps to soothe your existing acne and heal your irritated skin.  Application of honey could assist in improving your complexion, but it will not cause your acne to disappear and not return.

There are many more possibilities you can do with honey like mixing it with anything that has skin benefits as it will act as a perfect medium for mixing along with its many other properties. You can choose Avocado, Banana, oatmeal, fennel, yoghurt, onion juice, papaya, chick-pea flour, etc. and try new things depending on your skin condition.

Honey is also used as a cure for many diseases in Ayurvedic treatment. Also substituting your daily sugars with Honey highly helps in burning Fat. Every morning a glass of warm water + Honey + few drops of Lemon! This will also help indigestion.

You can also use Honey as your eye cream! Just dissolve the honey in half the amount of hot water and let it cool down till both the mediums are mixed thoroughly. Apply like an eye-cream twice daily and wash it off in 30 minutes :)

THANKS FOR READING AND LET ME KNOW BELOW IF YOU TRY ANY OF IT!