26/05/2022
HONEY MY LOVE SO SWEET!!!🍯🍯
🐝🐝100% PURE HONEY 🐝🍯
by: Pretty Tin's Organics Beauty and Health products
20 Uses of Honey in Natural Remedies
If you’re ready to incorporate raw honey into your diet, and cosmetic needs, then check out these honey uses.
🐝Improve digestion – Use a tablespoon or two to counteract indigestion since it doesn’t ferment in the stomach.
🐝Relieve nausea – Mix honey with ginger and lemon juice to help counteract nausea.
🐝Acne cure – It can be used as an affordable face cleanser to fight off acne, gentle on sensitive/all skin types. Take half a teaspoon, warm between hands and spread on face gently, leave on for 10 minutes then rinse with warm water and pat dry.
🐝Exfoliator – Honey makes a great exfoliator! Use honey on dry winter skin by adding two cups of honey to a bath, soak for 15 minutes, then add one cup of baking soda for the final 15 minutes.
🐝Improve diabetes – Consumption of raw honey can reduce risk of developing diabetes and help aid medication used to treat diabetes. Raw honey increases insulin and decreases hyperglycemia. Add a little at a time and see how your blood sugar reacts to it.
🐝Lower cholesterol – It can help reduce cholesterol and therefore decrease your risk for coronary artery disease.
Improve circulation – Raw honey makes your brain function optimally by strengthening the heart and improving blood circulation.
🐝Antioxidant support – Consumption of raw honey increases plaque-fighting antioxidants.
Restore Sleep – Raw honey promotes restorative sleep. Add a tablespoon to warm milk to help increase melatonin and help you sleep.
🐝Pre-biotic support – Raw honey is full of natural prebiotics which promote the growth of good bacteria in the intestine.
🐝Improve allergies – If sourced locally, raw honey can help reduce seasonal allergies.
🐝Lose weight – Substituting raw honey for white sugar can help in weight management
🐝Moisturize – A spoonful of raw honey mixed with olive oil and a squeeze of lemon can be used as a hydrating lotion.
🐝Hair mask – Raw honey hair mask can help boost shine, mix 1 tsp of raw honey with 5 cups of warm water, rinse thoroughly , air dry and style as usual.
🐝Eczema relief – Use to treat mild eczema. Use it as a topical mixture of equal parts of honey and cinnamon.
🐝Reduce inflammation – Raw honey has anti-inflammatory agents that can treat respiratory conditions such as asthma.
🐝Heal wounds – Raw honey used topically can help quicken healing time for mild burns, wounds, rashes, and abrasions.
🐝Cure UTI – Honey can help improve urinary tract infections due to its antibacterial properties.
🐝Shampoo – Raw honey can cleanse and restore the health of your hair and scalp. Try this homemade shampoo recipe.
🐝Relieve sore throat – Honey uses for sore throats is another fantastic remedy. Simply mix it with lemon essential oil and peppermint oil for fast acting benefits.
HOW TO CHECK IF HONEY IS PURE?
🍯****WATER TEST***
Here's how to do the water test:
Fill a glass with water.
Add one tablespoon of honey into the glass.
Adulterated or artificial honey will dissolve in water and you will see it around the glass.
Pure honey on the other hand will settle right at the bottom of your glass.
🍯****THUMB TEST***
Here’s the procedure to do a thumb test:
Put a small drop of the honey you have on your thumb
Check to see if it spills or spreads around
If it does, it is not pure
Pure honey will stay intact on your thumb
🍯***FLAME TEST***
Did you know that organic honey is flammable? Here’s a test to know 100% pure organic honey.
Take a dry matchstick
Dip its tip right into the honey
Strike the stick on the matchbox as if to light it
If the honey is pure, the matchstick will light with ease
The flame will also keep burning off the honey
However, if it is with impurities, it will not light because fake honey contains moisture as one of the impurities
Wellness Through Bees - Apitherapy
“Apitherapy” is the general name given to the medicinal application of bee products.
Honey is a dense, durable, and highly nutritious food product that bees make by collecting nectar, mixing it with various enzymes they secrete from their bodies, and storing it in honeycomb cells. Nowadays honey is universally known for its taste-enhancing properties as well as its nutritional value.
Royal jelly, which is secreted by worker bees to nourish queen bees and larvae, is one of the most important nutrients for function.
Bees collect pollen, the reproductive cells of plants released from flowers and cones, and add enzymes to it. They use pollen in the hive to nourish the brood as well as the young worker bees that excrete royal jelly.
Bees gather this resinous substance from the leaves, branches, and buds of plants. They use it to disinfect as well as to insolate the hive, and to strengthen the honeycomb. In addition to its main component of plant resin, propolis also contains important substances such as beeswax, fatty acids, essenti
