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Honey mask for the face: benefits and treatments

by Alivia Nyhan
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It does not matter if your skin is oily, dry, or sensitive, as honey is a natural ingredient that can improve the health and beauty of all skin types thanks to its richness in vitamins, minerals, and vital enzymes. It has been used as a natural cosmetic product since ancient times. Today, there are many soaps, lotions, and creams that have incorporated it as one of their main ingredients due to its multiple beneficial properties. Its hydrating, moisturizing, cleansing, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, soothing, healing, antioxidant, antiallergic, and protective properties stand out. After treatment with honey, all of them allow the skin looks much healthier, hydrated, clean, soft, young, luminous, smooth, and beautiful. How to make a honey face mask, read on and discover the best treatments!

Benefits of a honey face mask

Honey is a natural substance produced by bees that is full of beneficial health properties, but in addition to this, it also has an ideal composition for the care of the skin of the whole body. Next, we are going to detail specifically, what are all the benefits of honey for the face, so you can know how the application of a honey facial mask can help your face:

  • It is very rich in vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes, essential for the excellent health of the cells that make up the skin.
  • It has moisturizing properties, and its high content of predigested sugars helps nourish the skin and prevent dehydration and water loss deeply.
  • It contains antioxidant components that help renew cells and regenerate tissues, thus fighting skin aging and preventing the appearance of wrinkles.
  • It is anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antiseptic, making it one of the best natural remedies available to treat acne and fight all impurities.
  • It helps to cleanse the skin, and eliminate toxins and dead skin, thanks also to its exfoliating properties.
  • It favors the healing and healing of wounds.
  • It protects the skin against damage caused by sun exposure.
  • It is also excellent for caring for the most sensitive and delicate skins.

Honey lemon acne mask

A very effective honey face mask against acne combines the antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties of this natural ingredient with the anti-acne effects of lemon. And is that the latter is an excellent astringent thanks to the vitamin C it contains, which allows to reduce the fat in the skin and reduce the inflammation of the pimples. In addition, lemon is known for its property of lightening the dermis, which can be very beneficial in case of acne marks and scars that affect the tone and uniformity of the face.

Ingredients

  • Two tablespoons of honey
  • 1/2 tablespoon of lemon juice
  • One tablespoon of plain yogurt

Preparation and application

  1. Place the honey and yogurt in a bowl and mix until just combined.
  2. Add the freshly squeezed lemon juice.
  3. Stir all the ingredients until you get a smooth paste.
  4. Apply the mask to the face with the help of a brush and leave it on for about 20 minutes.
  5. Finally, rinse with cold water.

Honey and egg mask for wrinkles

To provide extra hydration and youth to the skin of the face, nothing better than resorting to a honey and egg facial mask, although more specifically to the white of it. Egg white is the best natural firming that exists, helping to combat sagging and minimizing even the most visible and marked wrinkles. In addition, it also softens the skin and has moisturizing properties.

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons of honey
  • One egg white

Preparation and application

  1. Put the honey in a container and add the egg white little by little.
  2. Stir the ingredients until you get a creamy mask.
  3. Apply the front to the face areas with the most wrinkles using a clean brush.
  4. Leave on for about 20 minutes and, after this time, remove with plenty of warm or cold water.

Honey and oatmeal mask to hydrate the skin

Another of the best honey face masks that you can try is the one that combines the moisturizing properties of honey and oats. This popular cereal offers deep cleansing of the skin, removing all blackheads while nourishing and hydrating the dermis, calming it, and avoiding irritation. The result after the application of this mask is wholly renewed skin, radiant, luminous, and much softer to the touch.

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons of honey
  • 1 tablespoon oat flakes
  • some mineral water

Preparation and application

  1. Grind all the rolled oats into a fine powder.
  2. Place the ground oats in a bowl and add the honey.
  3. Stir until you create a consistent paste, and add a little water so that it is not so thick.
  4. Apply the honey and oatmeal mask to your face with a brush and let it sit for about 30 minutes.

In the following FastlyHealarticle, you can see more benefits and treatments of oatmeal for the skin.

Honey and sugar mask to exfoliate the skin

The honey and sugar mask is perfect for exfoliating the skin naturally and harmlessly, helping the face to be free of dead cells and to be fully oxygenated. Exfoliation is a critical task to keep the skin blemish-free and healthy-looking. An excessive accumulation of dead cells prevents proper cell regeneration, resulting in dull, rough, impure, and prematurely aged skin.

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon of honey
  • Four tablespoons of sugar
  • juice of 1/2 lemon (optional)

Preparation and application

  1. Add the sugar and honey to a bowl.
  2. Stir the two ingredients until you get a consistent and grainy paste.
  3. Add the freshly squeezed lemon juice and stir.
  4. Use this honey mask to exfoliate the skin of the face by giving circular massages, avoiding the area around the eyes.
  5. Let it sit for about 5-10 minutes, then wash your face with plenty of cold or warm water.

Discover more exfoliating treatments like this by consulting the article 5 homemade scrubs for the face that will give you beautiful skin.

This article is merely informative, at FastlyHeal .com we do not have the power to prescribe medical treatments or make any type of diagnosis. We invite you to see a doctor in the case of presenting any type of condition or discomfort.

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