Honey: For hair, honey is very restorative naturally. It can be used as a natural and healthy means for restoring hair and for hair that is thinning or falling-out. Honey can also be used to help with baldness and adding shine to dull hair.

Honey is definitely a super food that comes up with many more uses than just a tea sweetener. IT is rich in antioxidants and antimicrobials and has many uses for the skin on your body and face. Here are a few recipes for your hair and skin that will leave you with a Naturale Radiance and soft, full hair.

Honey Hair Shine

You'll need:

2 tsp Honey

4 cups warm water

This is a leave in treatment to be applied after shampooing and conditioning. First, microwave the honey for a few seconds so its easier to mix. Next, combine the honey and water, mix well. Finally, apply to your hair after shampooing and conditioning. This is a leave in treatment, so there will be no need to rinse. Dry your hair and style your as usual.

Honey Pre-Poo Treatment

You'll need:

1 c Honey

1/2 c Olive Oil (use 1/4 cup if you hair is on the oily side)

Honey can increase the health of your hair follicles and scalp simultaneously. First, you will combine the ingredients of the mixture together. Next you massage it onto your scalp and let it rest there for a half hour. After the 30 minutes is up, you wash your hair as usual.

Here are two other hair recipes, which I came across on eHow.com…

Honey My Hair's Back!

You'll need:

1 tsp. Honey

1 tsp. Olive oil

2 tsp. Water

This mixture is said to help correct hair loss and/or baldness. First, you mix the honey, olive oil and water to make a paste. Then, you massage themixture onto the areas needing it the most, such as the thinned and/or hairless spots. You should do this before you go to bed and leave the mixture in over night. In the morning, wash your hair as usual and use this treatment regularly at night.

Another version of a similar recipe, which is meant to be washed out is…

Honey It's Growing!

You'll need:

1 tsp Heated Olive Oil

1 tsp. Honey

1tsp. Cinnamon

The mixture is applied to your scalp 5-15 minutes before washing your hair. Wash and style as usual.

I have not tried these last 2 recipes as of yet, I don’t have balding spots, but I recently found someone who is willing to let me try this on them to see if it works. I will let you all know.

-Hair loss recipes courtesy of eHow.com

I hope you all can see the benefits of honey, soon I will also post some honey scrub recipes for you all to try. I'll include one now that can help with dry, chapped lips during the winter.

Honey Lip Scrub

You'll need:

1 tsp Honey

1/2 tsp sugar (I have only used white sugar, but other people said brown sugar is great too)

Simply combine the mixture in your hand or in a container, your can mix it with your finger or a small spoon. When finished mixing, you simply apply it to your lips and rub on them for roughly 3 minutes or so making sure to scrub your entire lip. Then rinse off the mixture and be sure to moisturize you lips.

This recipe is meant to exfoliate your lips and slough off the dry dead skin that peels off of your lips. I use this mixture every few weeks when I feel my lips are chapped. Feel free to add your own variations onto it, lip perhaps adding olive oil or something. I haven't tried it, but it may be a good experiment.

So, if there is one thing you should be sure to include on your grocery list this week, its HONEY!! Give these recipes a try, also look around on line and see what other homemade recipes there are using honey. Let me know how these recipes works our for you all. Leave comments on any hair recipes you may have involving honey or any other naturale ingredients!

xoxo

Naturale Radiance