Natural Beauty Recipes

You may well have these natural ingredients hiding in your own garden or herbs growing in pots.

These are of course wonderful to eat but mix some of them up with a little honey and you'll have ready made beauty recipes.

Honey beauty has been around for quite a while now, thousands of years in fact. And today these are not so secret any more!

Skin Infections of which there are many can drive us all mad at times. Just as we have a party to go to, or when we need to look and feel our very best, out pops a breakout of some description and even those dreaded cold sores caused by the herpes virus.

These products have been scientifically proven to eat away at the bacteria which cause these irritants!

Using these products on a regular basis keeps our skin clean, refreshed and plumped up giving us that glow where friends and family ask "What are your beauty secrets"?

I’m not going to give my own age away, that is always a woman’s prerogative, but if anyone tries to guess they always manage to knock 10 – 15 years off and I’m not going to complain about that, who would!

A simple honey face mask applied to freshly washed skin which is still slightly damp, at least once each week, is far better than any chemical face mask.

These can strip your skin of the essential and natural ingredients needed to keep your skin hydrated. And are often very damaging, paticularly steroid creams, these cause tissue damage.

It is important your skin is slightly damp because this stimulates the enzymes which kill off the bacteria naturally. A good medicinal honey works its magic and releases its secrets.

Raw honey bought locally also contains Propolis, this is natures very own natural antibiotic.

Using the two together has been extremely effective for even for Acne sufferers when all else has failed.

When you feel that tingle on your lip which signals one of those cold sores is on its way, dab honey on it throughout the day, this will stop the little nasty in its tracks.

How sorry I feel for someone who has one of those scabs that seem to last forever! Honey keeps the area moist which means no scab will get the chance to form. That's a great natural beauty secret.

Aloe Vera is also a great product used regularly in beauty recipes, mix it up with honey.

They are both powerful and natural healers, even known as one of the very best natural recipes for applying to the skin especially after sun bathing.

These help to cool the skin brilliantly if we get a little sunburned, by accident of course. And the honey can't be beaten for healing the skin.

Wonderful herbs such as lavender are another wonderful addition to natural beauty recipes and mix so well with honey.

The ready made varieties love to boast their products contain both Lavender and Honey!

Make your own beauty recipe using a bag of dried lavender or fresh if you have it into a warm relaxing bath with a couple of spoonfuls of honey, lie back and relax and you will not believe how refreshed both you and your skin will feel.

25g of Beeswax

120ml Grapeseed oil

20 drops of essential oils such as Rose, Jasmine, Sandalwood or Marigold

25mls of water

1 teaspoon of honey

Using a clean heatproof glass bowl or jug, place this in a saucepan half full of simmering water. Add your beeswax and chosen oil and melt them together (this can take a bit of time)

Once melted remove the jug from the water and as the mixture cools add your honey and a few drops of water stirring all the time.

Soon you will have a delicious thick and creamy mixture. Pop this into a glass container and keep in the fridge until you want to use it.

We can go to town with mashed bananas, advocados and strawberries, yes together if you like. Mash them up into a pulp; add a few oats and a little honey and plaster all over your face.

Leave this on your skin for half an hour or so and then rub in using the oats to exfoliate your skin naturally and rinse off with clean warm water. Wow, you will feel so good and look it too.

How many times have we heard “you are what you eat” but this old saying is so true. Eat these natural beauty recipes too and bring out the natural beauty inside you.

Water is a natural beauty ingredient, it is essential to keep our bodies hydrated and working correctly. Two liters each day is plenty and try to make at least two glasses of honey drink with this.

Please be careful not to drink too much water because this can dilute your sodium levels. In turn this can damage your kidneys and cause your brain to swell. It is known as “Aquaholic Danger”