You Probably Have this Powerhouse Skincare Ingredient in Your Cupboard Right Now.
I‘m always on the hunt for skin care ingredients that really work, aren’t you? Honey, that simple product you probably have in your kitchen cupboard right now, is an ancient ingredient that’s really matchless when it comes to making skin look magnificent.
Honey (Summer’s nectar) along with related beeswax, bee pollen, and propolis are powerful selfcare ingredients everyone should know about.
Raw honey is the best form of the ingredient because it’s packed with elements that naturally balance the bacteria on your skin. This makes it great for acne, eczema, and inflammation associated with pollution, airborn mold, and pollen. If you want to lessen your allergy symptoms in the Springtime, eat local honey, it’ll help your immune system naturally overcome the inflammation associated with allergic reactions to pollen.
Honey speeds up your skin cells’ healing processes and has been found to be so effective at healing wounds quickly that it’s now used by doctors in clinical settings. Of course, the Egyptians knew this 1000’s of years ago and regularly used honey to dress wounds long before antibiotics were even a concept.
Raw honey is a natural exfoliator — apply it to clean skin to help remove dry, dull skin. Through this process of eliminating dead skin cells, skin looks brighter and is able to absorb serums much more readily. Honey is also great as a treatment for fading scars when applied regularly.
Beeswax, likewise, can create a protective layer on the skin. It’s also a humectant, which means that it attracts water like gangbusters. Both of these qualities can help the skin stay hydrated. Beeswax also works as a natural exfoliator, ideal for sloughing away dead skin cells.
Beeswax is the substance that bees create to form the structure of a honeycomb. Bees convert nectar they collect into wax, building honeycombs to store their honey. Ten pounds of honey produces one pound of wax.
Sunny honey is often associated with Summer since that’s when our buzzy bee friends are the busiest. So, wanna try?
Just Bee Cosmetics overnight lip balm called Renewed is a specially developed lip balm made with Beeswax as the first ingredient. It’s designed to work for more than 8 hours overnight to help tone and soothe lips. It also incorporates Propolis, a component that is gathered by bees to protect and repair their hive. Propolis is blended with naturally gathered beeswax, organic oils of coconut and jojoba, healing vitamin e, and soothing lavender and bergamot oils. Teamed with the anti-inflammatory and powerful healing properties of coconut oil, this balm offers wonderful therapeutic benefits to lips. $4.49
Ingredients: Naturally Gathered Beeswax, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Jojoba Oil, Vitamin E Oil, Propolis, Organic Lavender Oil, Organic Bergamot Oil
CV Skinlabs Restorative Skin Balm derives its texture from Bee’s Wax. It helps create a thicker consistency for this skin balm that’s used for wound healing, skin lightening, and replaces petroleum jelly. Bee’s Wax helps make it emollient, and helps the skin barrier to seal in moisture.
Restorative Skin Balm is a petrolatum-free, nourishing salve that moisturizes and helps protect skin from environmental aggressors. A use everywhere healing balm instantly softens severely dry, rough and chapped skin including lips, cuticles, eczema, cuts, scrapes, IV areas, abrasions, chaffing, new scars and any other areas needing TLC.
It also contains a blend of turmeric, alpha-bisabolol and reishi mushroom — a powerful combination of anti-inflammatory, wound-healing and skin-soothing ingredients that encourage repair and healing of damaged skin, while restoring a youthful glow. Other Key Ingredients include Calendula, Sea Buckthorn Oil, Arnica, Carnaub, and Vitamin E. $26
Georgette Klinger Honey Cleansing Gel drenches skin in nourishing honey for a clean, glowing complexion. Naturally soothing and protective, this lightweight cleansing gel is gentle on even the most sensitive skin as it delicately detoxifies and rinses away impurities. Blended with antioxidant-rich Honey and Honey Extract to calm skin and lightly balance moisture.
Purifying Honeysuckle Extract works to restore evenness and luminosity to complexions, while Chamomile Extract helps neutralize redness, inflammation, and free radical damage. $24
Honey Bee Soap from Primal Elements is made with honey blended with glycerin — the combination attracts moisture and draws it deep into skin to keep it hydrated. This soap moisturizes the skin with a rich lather that rinses cleanly away leaving the skin silky smooth. The delightful orange-honey fragrance combined with the sweet mineral pigment honeybee makes this a fun soap for the whole family. $9.50
