Simple Beauty

Beauty treatments at home can be simple and easy when you combine three very simple ingredients from nature…raw honey and coconut oil and apple cider vinegar.

After a busy and sometimes stressful week, the weekend is the perfect time to take some “me time” and do something good for yourself. Gives these 3 ideas a try:

Power Wash Your Pores

The enzymes in raw honey that make it such an easily digestible sugar also help to cleanse your skin and purify the pores of your skin. In addition, for those people who suffer from acne, the antibacterial powers of both raw honey and coconut oil can help to minimize bacterial buildup in your pores and prevent yet another breakout. 

What to do? Mix together room temperature raw honey and coconut oil until it’s smooth and malleable. Apply the mixture to dry, clean skin and gently rub it in, in a circular motion, making sure to steer well clear of your eyes.  Leave the mixture on for a few minutes, then rinse off with lukewarm water. Follow up by wiping your face and neck with a cotton pad moistened with warm water and a little splash of apple cider vinegar, being careful to avoid your eyes. Feel how soft and moisturized your skin feels!

Moisturize And Cleanse Your Hair

Honey can be used to get your tired hair back on track. Its healing properties, when combined with coconut oil, help to smooth hair cuticles, repair breaks and split ends, and restore a healthy shine to your hair.

What to do? Make a moisturizing mask by mixing together a tablespoon of room-temperature raw honey with two tablespoons of liquid coconut oil (coconut oil becomes liquid at around room temperature). Rub the mixture on your hands then apply it generously to your hair, starting from the bottom and working your way up towards your crown. Leave on this mask for about half an hour. Make a cleansing rinse with some apple cider vinegar mixed with an equal amount warm water (the amount of each will depend on the length and thickness of your hair). Pour through your hair and leave on a couple of minutes then rinse again with straight warm water. Wait until you see the shine!

Moisturize Your Cuticles

This mixture uses the skin-healing properties of raw honey with the conditioning powers of coconut oil and the skin-softening ability of apple cider vinegar to wash away your cuticle woes. Raw honey encourages the skin to draw moisture into itself, while apple cider vinegar helps to restore a healthy skin pH, which are all good things for your cuticles.

What to do? Whip together a teaspoon of raw honey, a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, and a teaspoon of coconut oil until thoroughly blended together. Rub the mixture over each of your cuticles, leave it on for 10 to 15 minutes, then rinse off.

No matter which treatment you’re trying, remember, the key to success with honey is to only buy the good stuff. And that means raw honey. Raw honey is that honey that has not been pasteurized, which destroys honey’s active enzymes and denatures its complex assortment of antioxidants and nutrients through the process of heat treatment.

Give these a try and make it a simply beautiful weekend!