Honey-Based Beauty Products for the Skin and Hair, Full of Beneficial Properties to Revitalize the Skin and Give You Smooth and Shiny Hair(2020).

Used best for moisturizing the skin, an anti-bacterial and a humectant, Honey is often used in skin care for boosting the skin’s complexion, treatment of acne, arrest aging and act as an anti-inflammatory. Extremely hydrating and soothing to the skin, honey helps the skin emit a natural glow while nourishing it deeply. The enzymes in honey enable its smooth flow into the skin while softening and conditioning it from deep within.

Honey helps hydrate the skin well, keeping it balanced and helps heal any inflammations, redness or blemishes on your skin, control oil production and prevent any acne formation. It also helps control the formation of wrinkles and fine line, significantly improving the skin’s suppleness, leaving it youthful and glowing. In addition to Honey’s anti-microbial properties, it also offers a considerable amounts of antioxidants that accelerate the skin’s healing and boost its natural immunity.

Honey is a perfect natural hair conditioner that retains and attracts moisture for your hair, enhancing its smoothness and health. Acting as a natural protective barrier from dryness, honey keeps the hair soft and bouncy. With its placatory properties, honey makes for a great hair moisturizer, where the emollients smoothen the hair follicles, adding shine to dull hair and bond with water molecules to hydrate any dry strands.

The scalp is abundant with epithelial cells, which create many follicles and ducts to promote hair growth. Honey can encourage the growth of these skin cells. With its hydrating properties honey keeps your hair conditioned with an abundance of amino acids, anti-oxidants, vitamins and minerals. It also contains glucose and enzymes which break down the glucose, leaving behind hydrogen peroxide that is adept at bleaching melanin, a pigment that gives your hair color. Honey can be a natural alternative to harmful chemical bleaches.

Owing to its extraordinary healing attributes, Honey is being used in modern medical science for combating all kinds of infections and chronic wound management, in addition to the conventional and alternative medicine for a variety of clinical conditions.

Honey has natural antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties and raw honey can help break the chain of free radicals that affect the wounded areas detrimentally. The healing benefits of honey can help overcome any bacterial contamination and aid the healing process.

Honey’s moisturizing benefits can improve wound healing by encouraging oxygen circulation and angiogenesis. Owing to its miraculous healing properties, honey can help prevent heart diseases, cancer, ease digestive troubles, reduce ulcer, soothe coughs and sore throat, regulate blood sugar and increase the body’s athletic performance.

For having a clean and rejuvenating bath, bath bombs aren’t the only way to go! Bath and Body Works CocoShea Honey Bath & Shower Jelly is another squishy innovation from the brand that says it all. Replicating a jar of Honey, CocoShea Honey Bath & Shower Jelly stretches like silly-putty in the hand and once it's wet, it transforms into foamy bubbles. Priced at Rs.4,999, and available on Flipkart, CocoShea Honey Bath & Shower Jelly is a blend of vitamin-packed Cocoa Butter and rich moisturizing Shea Butter, both of which are skin nourishing. This ultra-conditioning bath and shower gel leaves the skin looking and feeling super soft and healthy.

A honey face mask that’s packed with essential Vitamin B and antioxidants that hydrate, nourish and renew the skin leaving it soft, clean and healthy, the Honey Potion Renewing Antioxidant Hydration Mask is made of a proprietary honey blend, and glycerin and is completely cruelty-free as well as gluten-free. The Honey Potion Renewing Antioxidant Hydration Mask warms the skin on application offering a luxurious feel. It can be rinsed off easy leaving behind soft and supple skin. The Honey Potion Renewing Antioxidant Hydration Mask is priced at Rs.6,290 on U Buy.

A lightweight, nourishing and hydrating skin care gel, Just Herbs Honey Facial Massage Gel is a perfect skincare product for oily skin as it contains nature’s healing properties in the most versatile golden ingredient, Honey. Available on Just Herbs and priced at Rs.625, Just Herbs Honey Facial Massage Gel is sustainably sourced and cruelty-free, enhanced with anti-ageing properties of almond oil and vitamin E that help combat free radicals, restoring collagen elasticity, improving the skin’s moisture-retaining capacity. Coming from a long line of pure, bespoke and Ayurvedic range of skincare products, Just Herbs Honey Facial Massage Gel is paraben-free.

Sustainably sourced from a Maori family-owned company in New Zealand, Kiehl’s Pure Vitality Skin Renewing Cream is a fortifying and revitalizing moisturizer for the skin that keeps it glowing with youthful vitality. Available on Kiehl's and priced at Rs.5,200, Kiehl’s Pure Vitality Skin Renewing Cream is formulated with 99.6% naturally derived Manuka Honey and Red Ginseng Root. It helps smoothen the skin texture, strengthen the skin barrier and improve its resilience, in addition to boosting skin radiance and vibrancy for a youthful glow! Kiehl’s Pure Vitality Skin Renewing Cream helps the skin bounce back from visible signs of ageing and comes packaged in a sealed jar that protects its potency.

Priced at Rs.4,024, Loreal’s Age Perfect Hydra-Nutrition Manuka Honey Eye Gel is ideal for dry skin and helps firm it up, improving the skin’s resilience and tone. Loreal’s Age Perfect Hydra-Nutrition Manuka Honey Eye Gel acts as a night balm and moisturizes the face, nourishing it intensely and strengthens the skin’s elasticity. With a 48-hour hydration fort, the eye gel’s enriched with essential oils and calcium and is specially designed for dry skincare. Free from parabens and mineral oils Loreal’s Age Perfect Hydra-Nutrition Manuka Honey Eye Gel is non-sticky and non-greasy. It is available on Amazon.

A transformative 2-in-1 cleanser, Lancome’s Miel-en-Mousse Foaming Cleanser is a rinse-off face wash that contains Acacia Honey condensed in water. Lancome’s Miel-en-Mousse Foaming Cleanser helps remove makeup and gently cleanse the skin. Enriched with Acacia Honey it features a similar texture on the application, leaving behind a soft and comfortable skin texture. Priced at Rs.3,074, Lancome’s Miel-en-Mousse Foaming Cleanser is dermatologically tested and just needs to be massaged onto a dry face with 3-4 pumps in your fingertips. You can transform the texture into a velvety foam by adding some lukewarm water. It is available on Strawberry Net.

Biotique’s Honey Gel Refreshing Foaming Face Wash is a little more than a cleanser that softens the skin and lightens the complexion as well. With a soap-free gel texture, Biotique’s Honey Gel Refreshing Foaming Face Wash is a treat for your skin with the goodness of wild turmeric that reduces dark circles and enhances the complexions.

It is rich in antioxidants, Honey which soothes and heals the skin and Reetha which provides a cooling effect to the skin and helps prevent any further drying. Biotique’s Honey Gel Refreshing Foaming Face Wash removes all dirt and makeup residues effectively and is composed of brightening sugars and minerals. It is composed of several vitamins and traces of copper, iodine and zinc that are beneficial for the skin and is blended with the bark of the Arjun tree and euphoria plant as well. Biotique’s Honey Gel Refreshing Foaming Face Wash is available on Flipkart and priced at Rs.140.

VLCC’s Honey Moisturizer is a blessing in disguise for your skin. Enriched with honey extracts and essential oils like Jojoba, Olive and Almond, VLCC’s Honey Moisturizer hydrates nourishes and rejuvenates the skin, actively correcting the skin’s moisture balance, making it soft and supple. Its deep conditioning properties are enhanced with fenugreek extracts as well.

Priced at Rs.250, VLCC’s Honey Moisturizer is non-greasy and formulated to sink deep into the skin without clogging the pores or causing any breakouts. It is made of a botanical blend of Honey and Shea Butter which instantly transforms dry and flaky skin into smooth and supple. It is available on New U.

Forest Essentials’ Mashobra Hand and Body Lotion are ultra-rich in texture, enriched with ripe golden honey and succulent warm vanilla. Composed of burnt sugar, Mashobra honey and vanilla, it acts like a humectant that attracts and seals the moisture into the skin. Forest Essentials’ Mashobra Hand and Body Lotion make the skin soft and supple, nourishing it and providing natural hydration. It gives lustre to the skin and leaves behind a warm and sweet fragrance post-application.

Available on Amazon and priced at Rs.375, Forest Essentials’ Mashobra Hand and Body Lotion is infused with burnt Cane Sugar, Beeswax, Apricot Oil and Milk Cream for a supple and plump finish. Free of parabens, chemicals and petrochemicals, Forest Essentials’ Mashobra Hand and Body Lotion comes in eco-friendly packaging.

Composed of absolutely natural ingredients, and free of any harsh chemicals of parabens, Palmer's Manuka Flower Honey Strengthening Shampoo comes enriched with the goodness of Manuka flower honey that’s harvested in New Zealand and is combined with the nourishing benefits of Shea and Cocoa Butter that not only moisturizes the hair but also leaves it soft and silky smooth. Available on 1mg it is priced at Rs.630.

Palmer's Manuka Flower Honey Strengthening Shampoo adds volume and shine while fighting frizz and improves the overall health of your hair and scalp. Apt for those battling with hair fall issues, Palmer's Manuka Flower Honey Strengthening Shampoo includes natural hair conditioning properties that nourish deeply, heal damaged hair and restore it back to perfect health with a protective barrier to keep it smooth and frizz-free. It strengthens and conditions the hair follicles with a perfect blend of Proteins, Minerals, Vitamin C and essential fatty acids.

A miracle ingredient, Manuka Honey’s one of the most nourishing kinds of honey with 4 times the mineral content of normal honey and includes minerals like Iron, Magnesium, Zinc, Copper, Selenium, Potassium and more. It also contains other Nutrients, Active Enzymes, B-Vitamins, Antioxidants and other medicinal components that make it truly remarkable. Here are some facial mask recipes that can help your skin’s overall well-being.