With its antiseptic and bacteriostatic properties, honey has a beneficial effect on the skin: it maintains elasticity and moisture thus preventing the aging of skin tissue, the creation of wide pores, it nourishes the epidermis, gives the face a velvety sheen, smoothness and protects it from adverse external influences.
Honey’s usefulness has been known to doctors from ancient times: Hypocrite, Avicenna and others. Ancient Eastern medicine called honey “the golden miracle” that gives beauty and health. In Japanese Pharmacopoeia “Jakusei Honzo”, during the most ancient dynasty Tan, it was claimed that skin color would become flushed through the constant use of honey.
In cosmetics, honey is used both on its own and in a mixture with other bee products or other cosmetic products.
For all those ladies who have decided that their skin could use some more glow, color, softness and elasticity, here are a few tried and tested tips and recipes for masks, creams and other little long-lasting beauty secrets using bee products…
Mask with honey, egg yolk and sour cream
Add all of the above ingredients in equal parts, mix thoroughly in order to obtain a uniform mask. Apply the mixture to a clean face. After 20 minutes rinse off with lukewarm water.
Mask with honey, egg yolk and yeast
Mix 1 tablespoon of honey, 1-3 g of dry yeast and 1 egg yolk. On a clean face, apply a thin layer and leave to form a thin film, then apply a second layer followed by a third. After 15-20 minutes rinse off with warm water.
Revitalization mask
Mix a teaspoon of honey with a grated apple and half a mashed banana. The mixture should be diluted with a little water, spread on the face and neck and rinsed off after 15 minutes.
Mask with honey and pollen
Teaspoon of pollen (previously milled into a powder) stirred with a fresh egg yolk. Accompanied by a light massage, the resulting mixture should be left on the face and neck for about 10 minutes and then rinsed off with cold water.
Pollen nourishing mask for dry skin
Mix:
1 tablespoon minced pollen
2 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons almond oil
1 tablespoon barley flour
This quantity yields at least 3 packages. Keep in refrigerator, but melt slightly before use. Will keep for a month.
Oily cream
Used as a night cream or daily for dry skin.
The following components (some can be purchased at the pharmacy) are required for preparation: 10 g of a white wax, 20 g of spermaceti (solid fat), 10 g of butter, 30 g of almond oil or sunflower oil, 30 g of white vaseline, 35 ml of distilled water. Over a low flame, combine the ingredients in a dish of appropriate size. In a chilled mixture (not cooled!) add water in small amounts until it is completely cooled.
Nourishing cream
The following is needed for 75 g of cream: 10 g of yellow beeswax, 12 g of spermaceti, 7.5 g of almond oil and 8.5 g of glycerin. Dissolve all components except glycerin then stir the mixture until it cools down, add glycerin and continue stirring until a homogeneous mixture is received.
Rosemary cream
Place over steam to dissolve: 1 tablespoon of beeswax and 4 tablespoons of olive oil. Once the oil melts over the steam, cool it to the same temperature as the water (preheat water slightly in a pot). Then gradually add the water component, consisting of: 3 tablespoons distilled water + 6 drops of extract (rosemary) + a pinch of borax.