3 Homemade Skin Care Recipes Featuring...HONEY! (2024)

Beauty Tips · Skincare Tips · 3 Homemade Skin Care Recipes Featuring…HONEY!

Jill Nystul·April 17, 2013

I LOVE Honey!! I do! I love to eat it…I love to cook with it…and I love to put it on my face. :-) (Which sometimes happens when I eat it too…but not intentionally!)

Earlier this week I wrote a blog post at Blendtec about aHoney-Almond Face Scrub I recently “cooked up”. While I was working on that, I decided to try a few more skin care treatments using honey because…well…I LOVE honey! :-) No seriously….honey is an incredible substance!

It acts as a humectant, which means it attracts and preserves water which aids in skin hydration. It’s alsobeneficial for acne prone skin because it inhibits the growth of bacteria, reducing the chance of breakouts. I told you…pretty incredible stuff.

One thing I’m not very good about using, but would like to be better at, is a facial TONER. I had no idea there were so many benefits to using a toner until I looked into it. Here are just a few:

Cleaner skin
Re-balances acid mantle
Reduces oil output
Smaller-looking pores
Aids in the application of other products

This recipe for a Cucumber-Honey Toner sounded SO refreshing I thought I would give it a whirl.

Cucumber-Honey Toner

Ingredients

1 cucumber
2 teaspoons honey

Puree the cucumber in a blender, strain and collect the juice.

Add 2 teaspoons of honey and mix.

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Pour the mixture into a bottle. Apply on the face and neck area with a cotton pad in the morning and at night. Air dry it and rinse clean. Store the bottle covered in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

After I’d made the honeySCRUB and honeyTONER, I figured I might as well complete the facial trifecta and make a honey MASKwhile I was at it. I had an apple sitting on my counter so I decided to work with that.

After a little research I discovered apples contain Vitamin A and Vitamin C, both of which are very good for your skin (well, OK, I already knew that). Apples also contain a compound called malic acid, a type of alpha hydroxy acid, which is popular in acne treatments because it helps slough off dead skin and open clogged pores. (Now THAT I didn’t know!)

Apple-Honey Face Mask

Ingredients

1 apple
1 tablespoon honey

In a blender or food processor, combine 1 roughly chopped apple with a tablespoon of honey and pulse until smooth.

Apply mixture to face and allow it to stay for on for 15 minutes, then rinse.

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All three of these skin care recipes using honey made my face feel so good after using them, and there’s just something about using ingredients straight from Mother Nature that makes them feel even better.

It’s just hard to go wrong starting with one of nature’s most perfect substances….HONEY! :-)

I hope you will give them a try and tell me what you think!

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Honey is the queen of skin care. Really proven effective. I use it with lemon.

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For the cucumber honey toner, once I apply it can i leave it overnight and apply my usual facial moisturizer or I have to rinse it off before applying my moisturizer ? Thanks

I had heard from many people that there were ways you could make your own scrubs and other facial products but I never tried it for myself. Seeing your recipes though I can’t believe how easy these are. There are only a few ingredients (unlike the store ones which have tons) and they’re all natural and healthy rather than acids and other products that can actually hurt your skin. I have to say that I really love honey too and my favorite way to eat it is probably on biscuits so the idea of yet another way to use a food I love is great. Thanks for the great tip.

Hi There,
I’m real excited to try the cucumber scrub! I have a cucumber and agave not honey, will that work?
Thank You

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Is there a certain order you should use these 3 cleansers? I just made all three of the and my daughter are ready to give the a try.
Thanks

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I’ve used honey scrubs before, but never one with apple. Sounds lovely :)
I’m guessing that the honey acts as a preservative of sorts and this doesn’t go bad too quickly and keeps for awhile in the little mason jar.

Hi Jillee,
These look awesome! Nice small quantities too so they won’t go to waste in a few days or a week. My daughter and I want to have a mini home spa day. :)
Quick question- do you think you could use these two days or a few days in a row? Like you mix up a batch and you use it everyday till its gone…would that be too harsh? Should we try every other day? I wasn’t sure if you tried that or not.
Either way I am excited to make all three. Thank you!

My skin is really acne prone and oily during the summer. So what i usually make a mask using honey, apple and powdered oats. I know that you’ve seperated the oats and honey and oats and apple into two seperate masks but the combo of all three is amazing! My skin always feels so smooth after!

Would it work the same if you ran the cucumber through a juicer instead of a blender for the toner? Thanks!

Wow! Those look great! I love putting on natural body product that smell heavenly! It makes me very disciplined in my daily regime. I will definitely try them. As a matter of fact, I have some organic honey on the way in the mail…great timing!

That cucumber one sounds so refreshing!

One thing I do that is great for my skin is to add a drop of Lavender oil to my moisturizer in the morning. Smells great and is great for my skin. I mentioned mixing it in this post: http://behealthybehappywellness.com/2013/04/great-ways-to-use-lavender-essential-oil/

fist i want to say i LOVE this page and thank you for putting this info out there for people to share . i have cystic acne caused by hormones ahh the joys of being a woman lol n e way i found that using apple cider vinegar as an astringent and honey and milk as a mask has worked wonders for my skin i just take about 1 tsp of the vinegar and rub over my face w a cotton ball after that i take some honey and milk mix it in a small bowl until its a med thick paste and i apply and leave on till it starts to tighten about 10 -m 15 mins then i wash off w a lil bit of baby soap and my face looks and feels amazing milk and honey both have anti microbial properties and so does vinegar as you already know also reduces redness and inflimation

I couldn’t find the scrub recipe listed.

How many ounces does the cucumber one make? Looks like 4 oz or so.
Wondering–if the cucumber toner was made into ice cubes would it still be effective That would be a great way to preserve it.

The apple one sounds like it would be great on Jillee’s English Muffin Bread.

Mmmmm….after putting some on your face, you could put a dollop of the mixture into some yoghurt, or on top of some oatmeal or muesli and eat it for breakfast :)

…the apple/honey recipe! Silly me ;)
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I personally just want to eat the apple/honey one. Looks yummy!

Just a reminder, that all of the great benefits that you like about honey are only available in Raw Unpasteurized honey. The stuff in the stores has been heated & processed, killing off all the magical properties. Find a local Beekeeper and use fresh unpasteurized honey.

How long does the apple honey mask last? Do you store them in the fridge?

The apple one will probably last a few days.
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Do you wash your face before applying the toner?

As with most Toners, you usually wash your face and neck first, then toner, then moisturizer.
I would wash first because then you’ve removed all the dirt and crude of the day off before toning the skin and getting the pores to shrink.
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Is there a recipe for moisturizer using honey? My husband is going thru a round of meds on his face that basically pull any precancers up so now his face will be healing. thanks

I don’t have a specific moisturizer recipe but honey is naturally moisturizing. So using any products with honey should help.
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These sound great, easy and practical! I think we need pictures of them actually on Jillee’s face, though, just to get a better sense of the process. ;)

I use organic, raw, unprocessed honey. It is not liquid. Will that work? And, am I reading correctly – the toner only lasts a week? And may I ask where you get those cute little glass containers :)!!! Thanks for the receipies.

Hi Cherelyn! That honey should work fine as long as it will blend up. You did read correctly about the toner. And I got my glass jars at TJ Maxx :)
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thanks for the recipes. My husband and i are beekeepers and it has become a great 2nd job. Check the label and buy local honey. Call your extension office in your town if you don’t know anyone. Know your food, Know your Farmer!! You’re the best, can’t wait till tomorrow!

If you pay attention to detail you will notice that the first recipe is found when you click on the hi-lighted Honey-Almond Face Scrub. It’s in the second paragraph. Thanks Jillee! :)

“Earlier this week I wrote a blog post at Blendtec about a Honey-Almond Face Scrub I recently “cooked up”. While I was working on that, I decided to try a few more skin care treatments using honey because…well…I LOVE honey! :-) No seriously….honey is an incredible substance!”

The link to the honey-almond face scrub is in that paragraph. Granted with the different coloured text all through it’s harder to see, but if she’s mentioning a blog post about an item the item is probably a link.

As for the cucumber being peeled or not – look at the pic of the smushed (yes, that’s a technical term… heh) cucumber in the blender. Looks to me like the darker bits are the peel, and that cucumber juice is definitely the colour of the peel (which is usually where most of the vitamins and good stuff hide) so I’d say leave the peel on.

If you hover over the words “Honey-Almond Face Scrub” your cursor will show that those words are a hyperlink. Clicking will take you to the blog post for the facial scrub.
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I have a question on the cucumber-honey toner. Should the cucumber be peeled or should the skin be left on?

You can leave the peel on!
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I only have creamed honey, would it wojrk the same way as liquid honey in these reciped if I melted it first?

I’ve used creamed honey in recipes before and it worked great!
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Am I missing something? I’ve gone back over it but I don’t see the third one.

At the beginning of the post, 2nd paragraph, I clicked on Honey-Almond Face Scrub and it opened a tab into the Blendtec blog and that’s where I saw Jill’s recipe.
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The link to the honey almond face scrub is the third.

We have our very own bee hives and Honey is an amazing natural product!
In my opinion, it’s natures best secret. I can’t wait to make these homemade recipes!
I don’t see the recipe for the almond honey scrub?

Sorry, but I only counted 2 recipies.

her honey cucumber and honey apple were added to the previous honey oatmeal making THREE
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- I think for the third is the Honey Almond Face Scrub–the recipe she wrote for the BlendTec post. Click on the recipe name to get the recipe.
You must have missed the link in the very first paragraph that says in orange “almond- honey face scrub” derr.. its called reading the artical not skimming through it! ;b js! Also this face trio does wonders! I use it all the time! :)
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What trifecta!? There are 2 recipes here, not 3????

3 Homemade Skin Care Recipes Featuring...HONEY! (2024)

Cucumber-Honey Toner

Apple-Honey Face Mask

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