Nature miracle, or cosmetics from amber honeycombs

This unique natural product already several millennia, being the most valuable component of food, at the same time with success it is applied in cosmetics and medicine. It is supposed that the bees collecting pollen and making medical existed already for 50 million years before appearance of the person. Who regaled on honey in those immemorial times, the science does not know. But, as soon as there was a person, the situation changed. Archeologists claim that our ancestors began to get honey for food in the Stone Age. Possibly, it was the first sweet which could regale in those severe times. In search of the caterpillars serving as food collectors found honeycombs filled with fragrant sweet substance in hollows of old trees. And gradually process of domestication of bees and more and more broad application of honey began. Honey contains about 300 components, 100 of them are constants and are present at each its look. Bee honey is rich with carbohydrates, vitamins C, B1, PP, N, To, E and other valuable substances, it contains also organic acids, albumens and mineral salts, essential oils. And, on a set of some minerals honey is very close to serum of blood of the person. The basis of honey is made by two simple sugars: glucose and fructose. They contain in honey approximately in equal quantities.

As we see, ancient physicians fairly attributed to honey various curative properties. They called honey "a youth elixir". The famous Ancient Greek doctor Hippocrates claimed that in honey medicinal and preventive properties are combined. The ingenious doctor of the Middle Ages Avicenna also trusted in the curative force of honey promoting extension of life. He wrote: "If you want to live and keep long youth, then surely you eat honey". Also the value of honey as food product and remedy is valid, high. Also other products of beekeeping are not less valuable: bee sting, wax, propolis, a uterine milk - a natural concentrate of amino acids, hormones and other valuable substances.

As cosmetic honey began to be used probably already when the woman for the first time paid attention to the reflection in water and felt desire to improve it. Once honey was, along with wax, nearly the only conditioning agent behind skin, its property to regulate water balance of skin, to recover and nourish the dry, dehydrated skin caused broad application of honey in various nutritious masks for skin, bathtubs from honey and milk.

And in our educated time of development of science and new technologies honey continues to be used in cosmetics. Its properties are unique and surprising! It normalizes food of integuments as deeply gets through skin pores, stimulates blood circulation and exchange processes, promotes restoration of the damaged sites, increases resistance to action of adverse factors of the external environment, including, to microorganisms. Due to increase in potential of the cages providing local immunity there is a skin rejuvenation, acceleration of cell renewal, microcapillary blood circulation improves and the appearance of skin improves.

Many leading cosmetic companies make various means which basis are beekeeping products. However, it is possible to prepare skin care products with success and in house conditions. The main advantage - freshly cooked components and lack of preservatives and various additives.

Masks on the basis of honey are prepared, as a rule, with addition of an egg yolk, juice of a lemon, glycerin, cottage cheese, sour cream.

For dry skin

1) Oat and honey mask. To take 2 tablespoons of oat flakes, 1 tablespoon of bee honey, 1 tablespoon of milk, 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 3 drops of lemon juice. It is good to mix and put everything on a face. To wash away in 15 - 20 minutes.

2) Honey and cottage cheese nutritious mask. To warm 2 tablespoons of bee honey on a water bath, to connect to 1 tablespoon of cottage cheese, everything carefully to mix and put on a face. In 30 minutes to wash away a mask warm water.

3) The cream rejuvenating dry skin. To twice pass via the meat grinder fresh leaves of a nettle, mountain ash, parsley, currant, the rose-petals and a jasmine taken in equal quantities. To melt 2 tablespoons of margarine and 2 h a spoon of beeswax in the enameled mug, to add to them 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, 1 h a spoon of oil solution of vitamin A and 2 h a spoon of gruel of plants. All components carefully to pound and use the received care cream of the dry withering skin.

4) The softening and nutritious mask for very dry skin: Carefully to pound 1 head of baked onions with the 1st tablespoon of honey. To put on a face, in five minutes to erase wet towel wipes.

For the skin with enlarged pores and also withering

1) 1 beaten egg white, 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 teaspoon of flour (it is possible oat or barley) – to mix before formation of gruel. To put a mask in three layers - each subsequent layer after drying previous. In 20-30 minutes to wash away warm, and then cold water.

2) 50 g of olive oil, 50 g of white clay, 50 g of honey to knead to a kashitseobrazny state, to let stand 1 hour. To keep in a type of a mask on a face 20 minutes once a week.

Honey and in lotions is very good. The simplest recipe: to add medical to herbs decoction, suitable for your type skin and to use it for wiping of the person.

"Honey water" for evening care of skin: To mix 1/2 tablespoons of honey with 1 glass of warm water. To wash this structure then to wash away warm water without soap. It is the best of all to do this procedure for the night. Other option of use of this nutritious liquid - to wipe with it in the evening a face before putting nutritious cream. From water and honey it is quite good to add juice of a half of a lemon to lotion.

Well honey softens skin of hands, does it gentle and pleasant, eliminates dryness and peeling. The following structure can be applied instead of hand cream: to mix 3 tablespoons of glycerin, 1 teaspoon of liquid ammonia, 1 teaspoon of honey with a quarter of a glass of water before receiving homogeneous mass. Before the use to shake up.

Honey with various components is successfully applied to strengthening and improvement of growth of hair. For example, honey shampoo for softening of hair: 30 g of a pharmaceutical camomile to fill in 100 g of abrupt boiled water and to insist within 1 hour, to filter, add 1 dessertspoon of honey. It is plentiful to moisten the hair which are previously washed up and slightly dried by a towel with this solution. In 30-40 minutes to wash hair with warm water without shampoo.

As the summer comes nearer, and it promises to be this year very hot, - the relevant recipe - nutritious mix for the hair overdried by the sun: To mix 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 teaspoon of castor oil, 1 teaspoon of juice of an aloe and in 30-40 minutes prior to washing of the head to rub in hair. After that wash up the head, rinse hair with broth or infusion of a camomile, nettle, and then clear water. Such procedures should be done 1-2 times a week until hair do not become elastic and elastic. These masks for hair are recommended to be done also after a chemical wave.

Options of use of honey and products of beekeeping for beauty and health infinite number. Its application in all types and qualities well affects appearance - it is healthy skin color, magnificent hair, gloss in eyes, good health and mood!