The Health & Beauty Benefits of Honey

Sure, honey can be a really tasty treat, probably a cup of warm milk with honey? or maybe some homemade honey treats. But have you ever wondered of the benefits of honey? especially how it could benefit your beauty and health?

Honey is one of the ingredients included in most home remedies or home beauty treatments. One of the biggest Health benefits of Honey is healing, it has been known to promote healing for cuts, and helps fight infections, and has been used in traditional antiseptic and anti-fungal medicines. Honey is also a natural care remedy for common problems and issues such as:

• Acne
• Bad Breath
• Hair Loss
• Sleeping Disorder
• Yeast infection
• Soothes sore throats
• As well as benefiting the skin & body; beauty.

Honey is nothing to worry about if you’re on a diet or a healthy eating routine, on the contrary, Honey is cholesterol free, sodium free, and fat free as well. Depending on the brands of honey you find, there will be varying values of calories- but don’t be fretting over those! there is a little secret. Honey actually helps us lose some fat, keep reading to the end to find out how. Please keep in mind though to check the ingredients label, and nutrition facts whenever buying honey, cause certain brands love to add extra sugar or flavoring.

Some of the good things about honey include: being a healthier sweetener option instead of plain ol’ white sugar, it is high in healthy vitamins and antioxidants which help boost our immune system, it helps heal cuts or rashes naturally, and it’s a great source of energy (your body burns honey quickly, so you don’t have to worry about keeping it in the system too long)

Honey is also one of the most popular ingredients included in natural skin care cleansers, exfoliators, products (including Anti-Aging products), etc. Since honey isn’t irritating to the skin, it is used for rebuilding the moisture level of the skin, also by renewing the skin cells thus causes the skin to be softer and younger. Honestly, it is a great beauty aid. Keeping our skin alive and youthful is what Honey does best.

Got a sunburn? Honey heals sunburns by cooling and easing the pain all while repairing the tissues and skin cells. Because it also has hydrating properties, it will leave the skin moisturized and smooth.

Different Beauty Remedies and home treatments with Honey:

Honey Mask: First you will want to rinse your face with warm water (by doing this, you are opening the pores, and once you apply the honey it will start acting as a beauty aid, rebuilding moisture, etc.) Apply a good clean layer of honey on the face, and let it lie there until it dries (max: 15-30 min.). Once done, rinse and clean face with warm water, then finish off rinsing with cold water to close the pores. This helps by renewing the skin, and rebuilding the moisture level by attracting and retaining the water your skin needs. It’s a good quick treatment to do at home

Honey Cleansing: Start by mixing 2 tablespoons of ground almonds, 1 tablespoon of honey, and 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice [you don’t need to find a bottle of lemon juice, just cut and squeeze 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice into the mixture) (not lime)  once mixed together, apply on the face, gently working the product in, then rinse with warm water, after.

Milk & Honey tradition: Its been a traditional beauty remedy to drink milk and honey everyday to promote healthy properties for smooth skin.

Applying honey on breakouts and acne: It will work well if your breakouts or the acne is caused by bacteria or infections, because as mentioned above, it has great healing properties and is known to be a traditional antiseptic ingredient. Dab a thin layer of honey onto the affected area and leave it on for 20-30 minutes, then rinse with warm water. It leaves the skin feeling smooth and while there may not be an instant change or miracle, you can rest assured that the honey provided good moisture for the skin, repaired the cells, and cleaned up any bacteria that may have been lingering.

You can find tons of Honey masks & remedy recipes in the web, that help and benefit your skin.

Honey for Weight Loss ( Does Honey help you lose weight? )

• Did you know? Honey greatly benefits your health & fitness- it helps by fueling our bodies while we sleep, and speed up the fat-burning metabolism. Balancing fitness and a good diet with honey is sure to get you some great results and differences. Consuming 2-3 tablespoons of honey 1 hour BEFORE going to sleep does the trick (but it won’t work day to night, it takes time. And keep consuming that tablespoon 1hr before bed) this provides fueling for the liver (Fact from the Hibernation Diet: Honey has a 1:1 of fructose to glucose, thus, enabling this fueling for the liver during our sleep.)  Honey is also the key to relaxing stressed hormones, and repairing muscles. Honey is an amazing solution to health & beauty. I will be trying this out, and blogging about it for the next few months.

• When honey is consumed with warm water, it aids in digestion. Why warm water? It’s known all over that drinking warm water during a meal will help you digest your food faster, and I remember learning it from Asian cultures- basically the warm water helps your system raise the body temperature which then in turn causes your metabolic rate to increase. If you would like an extra boost to that cup of warm water and honey, squeeze in some lemon juice.

There are so many natural ingredients around us, who knew they’d be so simple, right at our fingertips, yet so big & helpful?

- Bria