RI Beauty Insider: Staying Beautiful With Honey

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Donna Macdonald, GoLocalProv Beauty Expert

 

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Honey's gift to skin is that the mask melts into it and then hydrates for a full six hours after.

Although the healing power of honey dates back 5,000 years, today's women can find this golden elixir in a myriad of sumptuous new beauty products. Autumn is a great time to discover what enthusiasts have always known: honey is not just for sweetening tea or for grandmothers who concoct natural cough suppressants.

Passionate beekeepers everywhere harvest their richest honey in the fall and that makes the interlude before winter a great time to add this nectar's soothing and moisturizing properties to your beauty regime. Let miraculous, nature-perfect honey inspire you with its ancient health-boosting qualities and sweet pleasurable scent.

Honey lips

Aquidneck Honey Lip Balm is made right here in the Ocean State. Lightweight but protective and curative, it makes lips soft and keeps them flake-free. Buy several at Aquidneck Honey's on-location shop to keep in your handbag, car, and coat pockets. Yummy natural honey lip balm. Aquidneck Honey, Middletown

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Honey for hands

Perlier Honey Miel Hand Cream seeps into the skin and will have you sighing in relief. The emollient honey leaves hands comfortable and surprisingly not greasy. This Italian company blends natural honey with science to create a luxe anti-chapping and delicately aromatic cream. Think well-being in a tube.

Honey bath

Farmaesthetics Almond Blossom Organic Body Wash is made of honey absolute, the very last ingredient extracted from the honeycomb. This rich essential oil gives Almond Blossom a heavenly scent that is so addicting, your bath will no longer feel complete without it. You’ll crave it like catnip but also give Farmaesthics Midnight Honey Bath and Beauty Oil a try too. The oil holds in skin moisture while treating those persistent winter dry patches.

Honey hair

John Masters Organics Hibiscus and Honey Hair Restructuring Shampoo creates soft manageable locks with a light golden fragrance. The smooth natural honey eliminates tangling and keeps it all running smoothly. Honey as hair conditioning is nothing new – the women who went before used honey to add moisture to their hair but not in an ingenious shampoo.

Honey mask

Fresh Crème Ancienne Ultimate Nourishing Honey uses honey from special hybrid bees for its nurturing facial mask. Honey's gift to skin is that the mask melts into it and then hydrates for a full six hours after. Skin can’t get more comfortable than that.

Honeyed perfume

Honeymania Eau de Toilette is for the true honey aficionado. This dazzling fragrance is as sophisticated as any new designer scent. The honey is made from the nectar of wildflowers which makes it sun-sparkling with a floral scent that’s darling and 70’s bohemian retro.

Honey sitings are everywhere in the cosmetic world this fall because it is the perfect accompaniment to day-to-day beauty aids. It’s been around forever, it’s natural, smells amazing, and gives a contented feeling of well-being. Honey is refined and chic but it’s also grandmother- approved and not so bad in tea, either!

Donna Macdonald is a freelance writer who enjoys covering topics of interest to women, especially fragrance, style, beauty. She has also written marketing material for a women's book that hit the New York Times Bestseller list and netted her an up close and personal discussion on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Donna currently writes her own personal blog, alovelyinconsequence.blogspot.com where she also writes about issues close to a woman's heart. Donna believes that when a woman finds beauty in the world, she will find beauty in herself.

 

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