5 Reasons to Add Wildflower Honey to Your Beauty Routine

Honey & Your Skin:

Honey is a great beauty ingredient for your face, hair, and body. It’s gentle enough for sensitive skin, yet it cleans and moisturizes without stripping moisture from the skin.

Honey has been used as a beauty product for centuries. It’s an all-around great ingredient to add to your beauty routine.

Honey is rich in vitamins, minerals, and amino acids that nourish and moisturize skin. It also contains antimicrobial properties that help keep bacteria away from the skin. In this blog post, we’ll explore 5 reasons you should add honey to your beauty routine.

Here are five reasons to add honey to your beauty routine:

1. Honey is the perfect daily cleanser. Honey naturally helps cleanse the skin by removing dirt and makeup without leaving behind any residue or dryness.

2. It can reduce wrinkles by up to 30 percent over time. Research shows that honey has anti-aging benefits for mature skin thanks to its antioxidant properties, which help reduce damage caused by free radicals in the body. Honey also contains proteins that help boost collagen production, which makes it effective against fine lines and wrinkles on the face as well as other parts of the body like hands and feet!

3. It’s a natural exfoliator. Honey is a humectant, meaning it draws moisture out of the air and onto your skin. This also makes it an effective exfoliator. You can use honey as an all-natural alternative to commercial chemical exfoliants like glycolic acid or retinol.

4. It treats acne and blemishes naturally with no side effects! A 2012 study found that honey has antibacterial properties that make it effective at treating acne breakouts without causing scarring or damage to healthy tissue as traditional antibiotics can do. Honey hydrates and softens skin. It has anti-inflammatory properties that reduce redness and irritation, so it’s great for sensitive skin.

5. It soothes sunburns and burns caused by chemical peels or laser treatments (but don’t try this at home). When applied topically, honey could soothe inflammation caused by sunburns or burns due to chemical peels or laser treatments because of its anti-inflammatory properties; however, avoid using raw honey straight out of the jar on open wounds as it may cause irritation instead of soothing.

How to use honey as a face mask or exfoliator:

soak your face in water that is warm enough to open your pores. Next pour some honey out into your hand and with your other hand, take some honey in your fingers and massage it into your face using circular motions. Continue until your whole face is covered in honey. Unlike other chemical masks, you can use honey close to your eyes. Lay your head back and let the honey sit on your skin for 5 to 20 minutes, then rinse with warm water and pat dry. 

How to use Honey in Your Hair:

Simply massage the honey into your scalp and work your way down the length of your hair all the way to the ends, making sure not to miss any sections. once the honey has been fully massaged into your scalp and is covering your hair down to the ends, all the honey to sit in your hair for anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours and rinse using a mild shampoo. Repeat once or twice a week until you have reached your desired results. 

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Rose & Honey Face & Hair Mask

This Rose & Honey face and hair mask is a luxurious treatment that will leave your skin and hair soft, smooth, and radiant. The luxurious face mask contains nourishing antioxidants that will improve the appearance of your hair and skin while reducing the signs of aging. It can be used once or twice a week as part of your regular beauty routine or whenever you need a little TLC for your skin or hair

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Beauty Time 20 minutes mins

Equipment

• 1 kettle

Ingredients

  

• 1/4 cup food grade rose petals typically used for teas
• 1/4 cup boiled water enough to cover rose petals
• 1/2 cup raw wildflower honey * see notes below

Instructions

 

Making Your Rose Water Infusion

• Turn your kettle on and boil the water, next add your rose petals into a heat-proof container then pour enough of the boiled water over the petals, covering the petals. (Adding too much water will make your mixture very runny)
• All your rose petal infusion to cool completely.

Making Your Rose & Honey Face & Hair Mask

• Optional (to avoid a mess you can strain the spent rose petals out of your water before adding the honey) add your 1/2 cup of honey to your cooled rose water and stir to combine.
• Next, get comfortable, either in a bath or in clothing you don't mind getting a little sticky (honey washes out in the machine – trust the beekeeper 🙂 ), and begin by massaging the mixture into your scalp using circular motions. Once your scalp has been covered begin working the mixture through your hair, paying special attention to the ends.
• After the mixture has been completely worked through your hair from scalp to ends, make sure your hair is secured away from your face and begin massaging the mixture onto your face and neck using circular motions. Make sure your face and neck are covered, then sit back and relax while the mixture works its magic. After 20 minutes (or longer if you like) rise the mixture from your face and hair with really warm water. Use a mild shampoo on your hair and pat your face dry.

Notes

• Make sure the honey you are using is raw, unpasteurized wildflower honey from a local beekeeper. Pasteurized honey will not have the same benefits for your hair and skin as raw honey – since it has been cooked. Imported honey can be misleading for consumers so find a local small-scale beekeeper and use that honey.

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