Homemade Organic Honey Beauty
May 21, 2008 by Jennifer
Honey is awesome for most skin types. It leaves your skin feeling really clean, it can firm, its natural antibacterial properties make it great for blemishes, and as a bonus your skin smells great, very honey sweet, and the scent lingers.
Here are a few plain old honey skin applications. If you’re using it on your skin, I’d use organic.
Plain honey for the honey pat or tap: Pour a little honey into a cup, use your fingers to scoop honey onto your face. Tap your fingers all over your face until the honey stops dripping and becomes tacky (it will become tacky). Leave for ten minutes and rinse. Easy and it works so well for cleaning that you’ll be amazed.
Apple honey cleansing toner: I don’t remember where I got this recipe – it’s not one of mine though. I’ve had it forever and I love it. Just toss one peeled and cored apple (any kind) into a blender with a tablespoon or two of honey, and a teaspoon of aloe. Blend to death. Apply mixture to face, drink a cup of tea, rinse. Hello fresh face!
Creamy honey milk scrub: I don’t like this one as well, but have a friend who swears by it. Mix 2-3 tablespoons of cream with two tablespoons ground oatmeal and 2-3 tablespoons of honey. Scrub and rinse. I like this better for body than face.
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Sounds delicious. I am wondering, do you think that warming honey with a vanilla pod in it would impart a vanilla smell?
This is in my head…warm the honey, place the pod in (after opening and all), then place in a covered jar for a while.
There must be a way to do that. Personally I think placing vanilla in honey might be useless, it seems like the honey would overpower. BUT I’ve never tried it. I like blackberry infused honey, and it smells like blackberry some, but I’m not enough of a honey genius to know how they manage that one. You could do an experiment! Or maybe Linette at Mother Earth’s Garden would know? Hmmm.
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The link to Homemade Beauty Products – Safety 101 doesn’t work for me. Please tell me how I can get to it.
Thank you,
Elaine
@Elaine – the link should be working now.