Honey, I'm home!

Chemicals. They seem to saturate our lives day in and day out. Aside from the fact we use them for cleaning, we use them in other things too, like shampoos, conditioners, face-masks, mouthwash, soaps and tons of other things that we use on our bodies. Even though we personally love all those little chemical things, we thought that we would try and take a natural spin on things along with our other little items to keep us looking fresh. What does natural look like today? One word: honey!

According to the dictionary, honey is a sweet food made from bees that take nectar from flowers. This means that honey is one of the most natural things on the planet. Besides being delicious and sticky, honey has other purposes aside from being eaten. Honey can be used as all sorts of things. Here are some easy, fun things you can do with honey in the world of beauty:

1.  Needing to stop a pimple in your tracks?  Mix a dab of honey with a tiny bit of cinnamon powder, then apply it to your pimple, whitehead or blackhead overnight. Make sure you don’t roll onto your front for at least half an hour to let it dry completely. In the morning, rinse it off and if the pimple still looks bad, you can try applying honey again.
2. Ran out of mouthwash on the beginning of a big day? No problem. Instead of rushing to the story or throwing a stick of gum in your mouth, try using this natural recipe instead. A glass of warm water with a teaspoon of fresh honey and a little bit of cinnamon powder tastes much better than some mouthwashes or gums. It also helps prevent irritating your throat and mouth like artificial chemicals might.
3. For a simple and easy honey face mask, all you have to do is apply honey to your face (only pure honey, ladies!). Let this sit for fifteen minutes and once that time is up, rinse your face with warm water.
4. Your face feeling a little greasy and dirty? Honey is a quick fix for this problem too. Mix 1 teaspoon of honey with a little milk powder into the palm of your hand. Apply on your face to clean away dirt and makeup and then rinse with warm water.
5. Hair can get really bland really fast. So, to amp up your hair, use honey to make it shinier. To add some shine to your hair, mix 1 teaspoon of honey, a squeeze of fresh lemon and 1 quart of warm water. Shampoo your hair as usual and then pour the honey mixture on your hair. Allow your hair to air dry. You do not have to rinse out the honey mixture. 
6. Feeling like you want to condition your luscious locks? Perfect! For a healthy hair and scalp, combine ½ cup of honey and 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Saturate your hair with the honey mixture, put on a shower cap and keep it on for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, shampoo and rinse your hair as you normally would.
7. For a final treat after a long day at school, work or sports, it's time for a bath. A honey bath! For sweet smelling and soft skin, add ¼ to ½ cup of honey to your bath water.
   
   
   
   There are so many different ways to utilize the natural resources around us, and honey is only one way to do so. There are also a ton of other things you can do with honey, besides the seven that we listed here. So ladies, let's sit back, relax and let the honey do our work.