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| Honey is great for making skin soft! |
Honey is truly one of Mother Nature’s “super foods.”
Although honey is mostly commonly thought of as a sweetener for food, there are
many uses for honey outside of the kitchen! Honey is gaining popularity in the beauty
industry in bubble baths, facial masks, moisturizers and cosmetics. Honey is
all-natural, wholesome and has a long history of enhancing beauty--starting as
early as Cleopatra. Today, one very popular moisturizing facial mask is made
out of honey, coconut oil and aloe! Honey is a humectant, which means that it
attracts moisture. It works like lotion and keeps skin soft. Honey is also
great for treating acne. That’s because honey is antibacterial which means that
no bacteria or germs can grow in it. Honey is
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| There are over 300 varieties of honey produced in the United states, and 3,000 across the world! |
also becoming popular in removing hair as well. It’s called sugaring. They take honey and mix it with lemon juice and sugar to make a sticky paste. Then, beauticians stick it to the skin, pull it off quickly and the hair comes right off! It is almost painless as well! Even outside of the beauty salon, honey is a great product to use on skin. Mixing honey and milk together can be a great remedy for a sunburn! Honey can even be used to make your hair shiny! Mixing honey and apple juice together and combing that solution through your hair before a shower will give your hair extra shine without looking greasy.
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| Did you know it takes 8 pounds of honey to produce 1 pound of wax? That's a lot of work! |
Honey isn’t the only product bees make that people use in
the beauty industry. Beeswax is also a very common product. Many types of
chapstick and hand lotions are made from beeswax because it helps hold in
moisture. Beeswax is produced when a worker bee gorges herself with honey and
then tiny cells of wax come out of four pairs of wax glands on the bee’s
abdomen. Did you know that it takes about 400,000 wax cells to make one pound
of wax? That is a lot of time and honey! Check out
http://www.honey.com/images/uploads/general/beautyofhoney.pdf and mix up your
very own homemade beauty recipes using honey and other hive products.
