Honey Scrubs: A Sweet Way to the Beauty of Your Skin

Honey scrubs are a real sweet way to the beauty of the skin.Due to the rich vitamin content, honey scrubs are healing and natural remedies for cleansing and nourishing any type of skin, as well as for its rejuvenation and lightening.

Honey - is a real storehouse of nutrients. It has long been used as an immunostimulant and anti-inflammatory agent, and also has long been widespread in the beauty industry. Now honey is used by every third popular brand of cosmetics for face and body, but, naturally, not every manufacturer chooses ingredients in good faith. But honey scrub, fortunately, is such a thing that you can do at home with your own hands.

Among the extensive list of vitamins and substances contained in honey, organic acids, cleansing pores, and antioxidants that have a corresponding effect on inflammation are of particular value to the skin.

Perhaps one of the main advantages of honey in the scrub is the fact that it has not only a temporary cosmetic effect, but also really improves the structure of the skin, heals it. Honey scrub for the body can be both gentle and more rigid. Abrasive particles can be fine as finely ground salt, clay, sugar. Larger honey particles like coffee or sea salt should not be used when making facial scrubs. Honey is a wonderful product for the prevention of cellulite.

Already after the first use of honey scrub, improvements are noticeable, and after a whole course of procedures, the following features are revealed:

• pores cleared and shrunk in size, narrowed and less deep, pulled together;
• accelerated skin regeneration, as honey accelerates cell division processes;
• the quality of the skin has become better, because the honey scrub penetrates into the deep layers of the epidermis and affects its structure;
• skin has become more hydrated and also softer and more smooth to the touch;
• acne and acne have decreased in quantity due to the effects of acids and antioxidants;
• the skin “breathed”, rejuvenated, fine mimic wrinkles became less noticeable, and the skin in the area of ​​the neck and nasolabial folds smoothed and tightened;
• with regular use, the honey scrub can lighten pigmentation and post-acne spots, even out and lighten skin tone;
• cellulite using this scrub comes to naught. But regularity, proper nutrition and exercise are also important.

Honey lip scrub will also be incredibly useful. Lips need special and, most importantly, constant care. They, like skin and hair, are exposed to the detrimental effects of the sun and wind, cold temperatures. In order for the lips to be seductive and smooth, it is necessary to take care of them in a complex manner - and the scrub is included in the mandatory program.

Depending on the area of ​​the body, in addition to honey, you can add a whole range of ingredients to the scrub. For example, in the case of a body scrub in symbiosis with honey, coffee, sugar, base and essential oils, sour cream, cosmetic clay, sea salt, regular salt, and lemon juice work well. For the face a good option would be to add aspirin, activated carbon, base and essential oils (literally 3-5 drops per serving), sugar, sour cream.

In most cases, the cinnamon in the face scrub burns very strongly, so it should not be allowed to face, but in body and lip scrubs you can use both cinnamon and its oil in reasonable amounts (however, in a reduced amount - 1 –2 drops). Cocoa powder works well on the skin of the lips. And also in the composition of the face and lips should not be present salt and coffee - they are too hard for such delicate skin.

The recipes for making honey scrub for different parts of the body are very similar - only some of the ingredients differ. So, to make a lip scrub, you need a teaspoon of honey, mint or cinnamon essential oil (you can also use cinnamon in baking bags), a teaspoon of sugar and any base oil, such as peach, avocado, jojoba, almond or coconut. Honey for scrub need to melt on the steam bath and add sugar to it.

Next, mix thoroughly until thick, but plastic and pliable consistency. After that, add 5–7 drops of base oil or several oils and 2–3 drops of peppermint or cinnamon oil (or a small pinch of cinnamon powder).

For the body in tandem with honey, ground coffee is often used. It tones up tired skin very well and improves blood circulation, thus fighting cellulite. Many popular manufacturers have scrubs from the Honey and Coffee series, however, you can make it yourself. So, you need the following ingredients:

• 1.5 tablespoons of natural shampoo, milk or body cream;
• 200 grams of large or fine coffee;
• half a cup of honey;
• 15–20 drops of your favorite essential oil;
• 2 tablespoons of base oil.

Apply the prepared scrub with massaging movements and rinse with a contrast method after 15 minutes, while the first 10 minutes should be actively massaged the skin.

Anti-cellulite honey and salt body scrub is very popular. It will require the following ingredients:

• 4 tablespoons of honey - liquid or melted in a water bath;
• 2 spoons of coarse sea salt;
• 2 scoops of base oil for softening and nourishing.

The volume of ingredients may vary in similar proportions. All ingredients should be evenly mixed in a convenient container to a plastic, but not sticky state. Apply the product is on the pre-washed and steamed skin, heated by warm water or massage. It should be applied in circular and patting movements on problem areas (thighs, buttocks, abdomen). This scrub speeds up the metabolism and contributes to the production of collagen, which contributes to the smoothness and softness of the skin.

There is a huge amount of options for making honey face scrub. Classic is not much different from body scrub - you need to take honey, some sugar, base and essential oils. However, on the Internet you can find a number of other, more interesting and individual recipes. It is worth considering a few of them in more detail.

• For the first recipe it is necessary to grind in the coffee grinder two tbsp. spoons of flaxseeds, mix with liquid honey, add three drops of citrus oil (grapefruit, orange or lemon) or replace it with ylang-ylang, and five drops of almond or flaxseed oil. Delicate flax particles act as delicate scrubbing particles. Citrus oil both moisturizes, tones, and mattes when necessary, and almond oil is an excellent regenerating agent. Honey is considered an excellent nutrient that also combines all the ingredients.
• For lovers of green tea The following recipe will do. It is widely known that green tea has excellent antioxidant properties, and also stimulates skin tone, relieves swelling and tightens pores. To prepare the scrub, you will need to brew the ground tea, wait until it cools. Next, you need to mix a tablespoon of tea with a tablespoon of sugar and add honey until a viscous, masky consistency is formed. The tool should be applied with massage movements for the first minute gently, non-aggressively rubbing.After that, leave for five minutes, rinse with a soft sponge or sponge and rinse with cool water.

It is best to apply a honey scrub in the shower or in the bath after the skin is enough to get steamed. Separate subtleties of its application and exposure for the body and face are different.

Before using the facial scrub, you need to wash off all the cosmetics, which can be done with micellar water, milk to remove makeup or hydrophilic oil. When caring for the skin, in general, it is better to use a stepped makeup remover system. Next, you should clean the skin with the usual cleanser - cosmetic soap, foam or gel.

Now it is the turn of the scrub, but it can be used in two ways.

• For the first method you need to steam the face - You can use special steam masks or steam the skin in a bath, in a warm bath or above a saucepan under a towel. This is done so that the pores open and the scrub penetrates the deep layers of the skin. The option of pre-steaming is considered the most profound purification, so it is not necessary to do it every week. In this case, the skin is cleared deeper and better, but it is also exposed to greater effects, and in the case of scrubs - less is better than more.
• The second method can be used between deep cleansing and steaming. After washing with gel or other cleansing agent, apply scrub to wet skin, massage for 1-2 minutes and rinse. This option does not need to be steamed.

Lip scrub should be applied to pre-steamed lips. To steam them, you need to attach to the lips moistened with warm water with a napkin or cotton pad for five minutes. After, without removing the moisture, apply scrub, starting from the center and moving in a circular motion to the corners of the lips. You should massage them for 2-3 minutes, then leave for another 10 minutes. After washing off the honey, it is recommended to apply one of the base oils, to which you can add peppermint oil to add volume to the lips, a nourishing balm, a mask, or just cover the lips with a thin layer of honey for five minutes.

Apply a honey scrub to the body is only in the bath or in the shower, because when the skin is steamed, the scrub works better, and the process of applying and rinsing is more convenient. Apply such a scrub with your hands or with a massage mitten. The first five minutes the body is massaged with circular movements. Next, the scrub should be washed off with warm water, rinsed with cool skin, then apply a moisturizer or balm.

Any honey scrub can be stored in the refrigerator for no more than one month.

Cosmetologists advise that it is necessary to clean the face, body and lips with a special scrub, and this is due not only to the attractive appearance. The skin, like hair or nails, is constantly renewed, and new, already outdated old cells replace the old, already outdated cells. This is the same natural process as the growth of the child. However, in our ecology, old cells are not able to move away on their own, which leads to layering, peeling of these very dead cells, clogging of pores, the appearance of oily luster, multiplication of bacteria, acne. And all because the natural process did not go through to the end.

Perhaps the advantage of honey scrub lies precisely in the fact that it not only removes the skin from old cells, renews it, but also automatically nourishes and moisturizes. Virtually everyone can use a honey scrub - the only contraindications are individual intolerance to honey, allergies and too close capillaries to the skin. Honey scrubs are suitable for all skin types. However, depending on the type of skin, different oils are selected in the scrub.

For dry it is better to choose peach or apricot base oils, rose oil or jasmine. For oily and combination skin - grape seed oil or avocado with rosemary or lemon. For normal skin, almond oil or jojoba oil and ylang-ylang or lavender oil are suitable.

When making this scrub, special attention should be paid to the quality of the honey. In shops and in the markets in recent times a huge number of fakes, diluted sugars, so it is best to choose the product that is created by bees on nearby apiaries or farms. And also a guarantee of the quality of honey is selling it in honeycombs - however, it is rather inconvenient to take it out of them.

Best of all last year’s honey works best in scrubs and masks, since it is sufficiently infused for this and has fully matured. And to enhance the effect of anti-cellulite scrub of honey, you should massage the skin with a brush or scourer of medium hardness, thus increasing blood flow to problem areas.

To learn how to make lip scrubs at home, see the following video.