Honey Beauty Recipes

[tayndrewsmama]

I thought this might be something to share here. http://www.pioneerthinking.com/honeybeauty.html

[Spastica]

I can vouch for honey's healing properties.

This past year, on two separate occasions, I have started my morning fretting and having anxiety over *something* or another, all while ironing. You can tell where this is going.

Anyway, on both times, I've scorched my skin with the edge of my clothes iron, which stings like hell. The first one happened on my upper thigh (yeah, I was ironing my pants and ended up burning my bare upper thigh) and the other one happened on the back of my hand, near the fleshy part near the thumb.

The first burn, long ago, I put vinegar on it, and probably ice to stop the stinging. I used vinegar and cocoa butter and even olive oil on some days so that the burn wouldn't turn into a keloid scar. The area is smooth but there is a faint mark, which is fading by the month but it's still there. The original burn was in fall of 2005.

This year earlier last month, I burned my hand and put lavender on it to stop the stinging, I think I put the vinegar, but then I had to go to work, so I put some honey on. This burn has healed quicker and there isn't any dark marks. Whatever was burned and the skin that was flaking off could be removed with baking soda (exfoliated) and there was new, regular skin underneath.

Perhaps the one skin on my thigh may have touched the iron more than the one on my hand, but I think the honey helped it. Next time I get any kind of cooking-splatter blister or my stupid early-morning-anxiety-spaced-out-and getting burned by the iron-thing, I'll use honey

[tayndrewsmama]

Wow, maybe you should use a cold iron. I hope you're okay.

[Spastica]

Yeah, I'm fine - it's just what happens when a hot iron quickly touches your skin. Since I'm tan-skinned, anything that happens to my skin just shows up more and stays longer than fair-skinned people.

I DO dislike ironing though.:

It doesn't help that I still do things the college bachelorette way - I have a 3 foot ironing board (same one my parents bought me when I moved to college) that is made for a bed-top and the combined height is at my belly. I don't want a full-sized ironing board for my apartment.

Ah well. I HAVE resolved the junk that made me so anxious and absent-minded though

[tayndrewsmama]

Originally Posted by Spastica

I DO dislike ironing though.:

I haven't done it in years!

Originally Posted by Spastica

I have a 3 foot ironing board

I was beginning to wonder just how tall you were if you burned your thigh. Now I understand how that happened.

Originally Posted by Spastica

Ah well. I HAVE resolved the junk that made me so anxious and absent-minded though

I am glad to hear that.