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March 2024
Cleopatra used it every day as the basis of a facial mask that gave her skin smoothness. Nowadays, the big cosmetics companies continue to take advantage of the nutritional properties, emollients and bactericides of honey to create sumptuous creams with the promise of returning a resplendent and regenerated complexion.
It is a proven fact that this gift of nature, in addition to softening the skin, nourishes epithelial tissues and subcutaneous nerve branches. It also absorbs skin secretions and acts as a disinfectant.
So much so, that the ancient treatises of Russian medicine advised its use to remedy skin diseases, such as boils and carbuncles, as well as in some cures of cutaneous tuberculosis by applying bandages impregnated with the sweet.
Whether in the form of lotions, ointments, gel, soaps, creams or emulsions, honey is highly appreciated in its use on the skin and skin. Hipócrates, father of the medicine, indicated that when applying it on the face it granted nuances of freshness and youth .
It is considered an effective remedy to alleviate the effect of wrinkles or eliminate roughness of the skin, because it moisturizes and provides elasticity and smoothness; for the dry skin The application of a mask made with egg and honey is ideal.
Honey baths are very beneficial, because they exert a prophylactic action on the whole body, in doses of 200 to 250 grams of honey per bath, whether in cold, warm or hot water.
Pragna Chakravarti, director of the scientific area of a renowned international cosmetics firm praises the properties of royal jelly in cosmetics.
This substance has a high content of vitamin B, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, fatty acids and minerals. "Its composition is so complex that scientists have not been able to reproduce royal jelly in a laboratory and so far there are no products made by humans that reproduce their extraordinary regenerative properties ", says Chakravarti.