Give Your Skin A Sweet Treat With These Honey-Infused Products

It’s so nice when the thing you add into your cup of tea, is able to give you good skin as well. The benefits of honey in skincare isn’t new – it’s long been known as an ingredient that has quite fantastic anti-bacterial properties – due to its low pH levels and presence of natural bacteria-killing components – making it suitable for acne-prone skin; it’s also a powerful anti-oxidant so you get those anti-ageing benefits thrown in as well.
Show us a honey-baed skincare product, and it’s quite likely we’ll want it – the idea of slathering a honey-scented product all over our faces will always be an enticing one. It doesn’t even have to be the super atas Manuka honey from New Zealand; give our skin any of these sweet treats, anytime.
 

Lancôme Miel-En-Mousse
$75, available from Lancôme counters
This has a syrupy texture that transforms into a mousse upon contact with water, which supposedly makes this a double cleanser. It’s enriched with acacia honey, which comes from the black acacia tree.

Blithe Energy Yellow Citrus & Honey Patting Water Pack
$54, available at Sephora and sephora.sg

You might have heard about these famous “patting masks” from Korea. Basically they’re a kind of concentrated cleanser that contain rice water, and remove dirt and dead skin cells from the skin surface in the mere 15 seconds you take to splash them on. This yellow version has lemon and honey extracts, together with vitamin C, for a brightening effect.
 

Kiehl’s Pure Vitality Skin Renewing Cream
$95, available at Kiehl’s stores and counters

This cream has the luxurious stuff: New Zealand manuka honey, and red ginseng root, as a powerful antioxidant and to boost skin cell renewal respectively. Manuka honey’s seen as one of the most atas, one of the reasons being it’s a honey with one of the highest antioxidant activities, plus has collagen-boosting and skin-hydrating properties – which is thanks to its high sugar and mineral content.
 

ETUDE HOUSE Honey Cera Eye Pack Cream
$36.90, available at ETUDE HOUSE stores
The products from this range might smell like cherry blossom, but it’s really all about the honey, combined with royal jelly (the bees really contributed a lot to these formulations). Both work to maintain skin elasticity and hydration, especially necessary around the vulnerable eye area.
 

Sephora Honey Lip Scrub
$9, available at Sephora
Since honey is known for its healing and soothing powers, of course it would make a great lip care product. The small scrub particles help with the exfoliation of dead cells, while a dose of shea butter also keeps the skin nourished.