Honey is the best natural ingredients for your beauty treatment. Since Cleopatra era, honey is already well known to be used by this queen to enhance her beauty especially her smooth skin. She used to mix honey and milk on her bath, a genius combination that now used on cosmetic products. I don’t know whether Cleopatra knew about honey’s substance, but we now know that nutrients on honey are very rich, thus it seems to be a perfect skin food.
Honey is a humectant that means attracts and retains moisture form the air then brings it to your skin. No wonder, today honey is used on many moisturizing products such as shampoo, skin lotion, conditioners, etc. The skin’s ability to retain moisture is an important factor to maintain its softness, resilience and flexibility. Unfortunately, due to natural cycle aging makes the skin loses its ability to bind water which cause dry skin or wrinkles. Moreover, pollution around us also plays a big role to aggravate our skin condition.
So, how to make honey face mask for beauty treatment? Here I’ll show you some easy and cheap recipes.
Honey Face Mask to Remove Acne
Ingredients:
1 teaspoon of lime juice
1 teaspoon of honey
How to use:
1. Mix lime juice and honey
2. Apply to your face
3. Leave on for 30 minutes
4. Rinse with cold water
Honey contains of antiseptic that can kill bacteria that cause acne and lime juice can reduce oil substances on the face.
Honey Face Scrub
Ingredients:
1 teaspoon of honey
A little bit almond flour
How to use:
1. Mix honey and almond flour
2. Rub gently into your face (like you use face scrub)
3. Rinse with warm water
Honey Face Mask for Dry Skin
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon of honey
1 teaspoon of milk powder
How to use:
1. Mix honey and milk powder
2. Apply to your face and neck
3. Leave on for 30 minutes
4. Rinse with warm water
Honey Face Mask for Oily Face
Ingredients:
1 teaspoon of lemon juice
1 teaspoon of honey
1 egg white
How to use:
1. Mix all the ingredients above
2. Apply to your face and neck
3. Leave on for 30 minutes
4. Rinse with warm water
But remember, if your skin gets irritated after applying the mask or scrub, rinse it off immediately. Probably you are allergic to one or some ingredients of chosen mask or scrub. Moreover, if it doesn’t make any irritation on your skin, you can continue to use the mask or scrub. Please clean up your face before applying it. To get the maximum result, you can use honey face mask regularly, for example once a week.
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