Honey, my other favorite product! mmm. I’ve googled how a bee makes honey and it’s kind of crazy. Honey is flower nectar that bees collect, then it’s stored in the bee’s “honey” stomach (Yep, thats where it gets weird for me) where it’s mixed with bee enzymes, then the bee passes it around to other bees or regurgitates it into a honey comb!!! google it! How crazy is it that?! I eat and love regurgitation from bees, who are my enemies on the basis that they are part of the insect world. But, I love it. It’s so much better than sugar in so, so many cases. I just put some in my plain oatmeal and it made it fabulous. Lately, Matt and I have really been making an effort to eat fewer animal products. Honey is my only concession. Delish. Ever since my friend Maggie, told me about her cousin who owns a bee hive, I’ve been making little plans in my head to start Nicole’s Honey Farm.

Other than honey being a great remedy for a lot of things, I also love it for my skin! Sometimes, when my face is feeling kind of blah, I like to give it a really good scrub to brighten things up. I’ve never loved a scrub more than a honey salt scrub. It leaves my skin feeling refreshed, like all of those little dead skin cells are gone but it doesn’t feel dried out. Probably because I add the miraculous coconut oil. :) Here’s how I make it.

1. You start by mixing honey and salt together. I’m not really too much of a measurer, and sometimes it gets my food in trouble, but with the honey salt scrub, eh. It’s not going to mess up. Just put a squeeze of honey in a bowl and then add enough salt until it’s as scrubby as you think you would like it. 

2. Next the coconut oil (or any oil of your choosing) and the essential oil join the party. If you’ve never bought essential oil before, you can most likely find it at your neighborhood natural food store like Akins, Native Roots, Dodson’s and very soon here in Oklahoma, WHOLE FOODS! Yay. But back to the essential oils. I love them.Go find some, it’s a wonderful thing to get into. Look for something that looks like this:

There are so many different types, and it’s so interesting to learn about them. My super-pretty friend Elyse told me that if she has a little blemish on her skin, she puts Tea Tree Oil on it and it goes right away because of the anti-bacterial properties. Next time I’m at the store, I’m getting some.

3. Ok, now you have the coconut oil and essential oil in there. I’m using lavender because I love the smell. Go ahead and mix it all up. This is what it looks like all mixed up. Isn’t it such a luxurious face scrub?!:

4. Now put a headband on, because you don’t want too much of this to get in your hair, and use a warm washcloth to wet your face. When your face is damp, use your fingertips to scrub the scrub gently on your skin. 

5. Once you feel like you’ve won the war with those nasty dead skin cells, use a nice, clean warm washcloth to wipe it off. Wipe it off real good. Now look in the mirror and smile.

Ah, doesn’t that feel nice? Go try it. Pamper yourself. After all, it is Valentines Day Week. 

P.S. Use it as a hand & foot scrub too. :)