Seven reasons to recheck your hand lotion
Honey has been around and has been used for thousands of years. Actually, it’s a good thing that the honey bee has been around for as long as they have. Those little guys are responsible for a majority of our edible plants and help keep tens of thousands (if not more) of plants from becoming extinct. From the ancient Greeks to the Egyptians, the Chinese, and other cultures from all over the world, honey has been used over and over with rave results throughout time.
There are numerous products out there for skin care, hair care, lip care and more that use honey in them. Below are 7 great reasons you should select a skin care cream with honey in it.
- Honey has the ability to attract water molecules from the surrounding environment through absorption (takes in water). There’s more to this, but you get the point. The technical name for this is “Hygroscopy.”
- Not only does it help your skin to attract water, honey is also a humectant meaning that it helps your skin retain moisture. These two actions, attracting and retaining water, help keep your skin moisturized making it soft and healthy looking. It will also help restore dry chapped skin and prevent it from drying out.
- Honey helps you look younger. Okay, that’s a really broad statement. Let me clarify. Honey helps counteract the damaging effects of oxidation in your skin. So what’s “oxidation”? Most of you are familiar with rust. That’s the effect of oxidation on metal. A similar thing happens when you cut an apple or banana and leave it exposed to air. It turns brown. Your skin is not much different. The secret of preventing oxidation is to provide a layer of protection between the exposed material (that would be your skin, in this case) and the air. Want a science lesson? Click here. Want something that will help your skin look better, healthier and younger?
- Honey inhibits the growth of microbes such as bacteria, fungi, or viruses. Who wouldn’t want that? Honey is considered an antimicrobial substance because it can inhibit the growth of these icky things. Most people are familiar with penicillin. That is also an antimicrobial substance. No, honey probably won’t cure the flu or a common cold (there was a clinical trial regarding coughing children that came out very favorable to honey — click here to read more about the trial) and honey has proven effective as an antimicrobial when used on skin.
- Honey is organic, all-natural and does not irritate the skin. This makes it especially ideal for beauty products for sensitive skin. If you don’t have sensitive skin, no worries. It’s still organic, and that’s good, right?
- Honey helps to heal your skin. No matter how careful you are, most hands will get customary scrapes and scratches — especially if you own a cat! Honey contains a special enzyme (a type of protein that helps start certain chemical changes) that when combined with water, produces a mild antiseptic that helps your skin to heal. Remember, honey attracts and retains water so getting the water to make the mild antiseptic is no problem.
- Honey comes with a host of vitamins and minerals that help to rejuvinate your skin and generally make it healthier. Honey contains several B-vitamins including B3 (niacin) and B5 (pantothenic acid) which are starting to find their way into more and more skin care products as people discover their beauty benefits. Honey also has Vitamin-C, copper, iodine, and zinc as well as magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium chlorine, sulphur, iron and phosphate.
Maybe putting honey on your skin with all its special properties, vitamins and minerals won’t do everything it has been reported to do over the ages. However, most people who use a skin care lotion with honey nowadays find that works better than a lot of skin care creams that don’t use honey.
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