Once a day for the past fortnight, I have been using my own made up facial moisturising oil, as well as a twice a day raw honey cleaner. A couple of spoonful's of honey have been decanted into a separate container so we can also eat the honey from the jar! You can read more about it here
What do I think? I have to say I am quite impressed!
A headband is used to pull hair off my face before applying the honey first thing in the morning. I leave it on for up to 5 minutes before rinsing off with cold water (can't be bothered to wait for the hot and use up my metered water!) This routine is repeated around 8pm each evening; washing my hands first to make sure I don't introduce any microbes into the honey.
As the days went on, it became obvious that my partially set honey would be easier to apply to a slightly damp face. I smeared a few lines of water on my face as part of the hand rinsing routine. If you were using liquid honey I don't think this problem would arise.
After a few days my skin felt different. I have normal skin which is usually slightly greasy first thing in the morning. Now my face is devoid of grease except for a light coating around the nose. I couldn't determine if my skin was fine or slightly dry but I kept on anyway. Now, a fortnight on my skin feels lovely, moisturised, clean, refreshed and definitely different even if I am failing to put it into words.
I haven't been putting the oil on in the evening as I was afraid it would be too much for my skin and I might get spotty. I'm still not sure whether to or not although previously I never used night cream so for now, I might leave it.
The oil is applied after my morning honey clean. The bottle is shaken well before 8 drops are put onto the palm of one hand before applying in dabs over my face and neck. Again, for a few days it took a little while to disappear and I gently blotted it with a tissue around my hair line so I could remove the headband! Now, I don't need to do it and the headband can be removed within 5 minutes of applying it.
For now I am going to stick with this as it seems to be working very well. Have a lovely weekend everyone.
I like the sound of the honey cleanser, I might give that a go.....my skin is so sensitive and suffers with eczema when I'm stressed or been out in cold windy weather.
ReplyDeleteI started with bog standard honey until I could source raw honey, don't really know whether it makes a difference.
DeleteI love this! Isn't honey amazing? :)
ReplyDeleteTruly is, must investigate this more!
DeleteBrilliant review, I might give this a go. I'm all for natural products and as we are hoping to have our own beehives in the future this would be one more tick in the self sufficiency box.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see how it goes after a longer time.
DeleteInteresting, think I might give it a go xxx
ReplyDeleteLeave the honey on for a while if you have the time but somedays I don't. The oil I am using is so light!
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