I find that as I get older (33yrs now) and as beauty products of the non-organic variety get more and more expensive the more I want to experiment with making my own homemade beauty products.

So, I popped online and started searching for some simple recipes. The first one I came across that would actually be doable according to the items that I do have in the kitchen is the Honey Mask. Now, I have used honey before to seal a wound because it's a great antiseptic and works in a pinch if you don't have any antibacterial cream handy and I've used it many times to make my tea a bit more tasty but as of yet I haven't thought of putting honey on my face. I'll also admit that the idea of covering my face in sticky honey doesn't really appeal to me at the moment but over at HealthRecipes.com it seems to be all the rage, so I'll give it a shot.

What you do is place a washcloth in warm water and then apply it to your face to open up all those pores. You then smear honey all over your face, of course excluding your eyes and leave it on between 15 and 30 mins. You then rinse off the honey using warm water and apply a new washcloth that's been soaked in cold water on your face to close the pores back up. It's suggested that you do this at least once a week.

Why do they say between 15 to 30 mins? I do not know but what I'll do is try it for 20 mins. Right, so here I go. I'm going to go try this right now, put the honey on and come back to the computer.

All right, so here I am sitting at the computer with honey all over my face. I found using the warm washcloth to be a pleasant experience. Getting the honey spread evenly over my face was another experience all together. The honey is very sticky and drippy, so I do suggest that if you try this to do it over your bathroom sink and use the mirror or you'll get honey all stuck up in your eyebrows and hair. The plus side of things right now, is that once the honey is on the skin it stops dripping and I smell great. My skin doesn't feel like it's drying out as happens with some commercial facial masks, which is good because that alleviates any urge to itch my face when it's covered with a sticky amber liquid. Just a tip for those of you who have long eyelashes watch were you put the honey because right now when I blink some eyelashes are getting stuck to my face.

Twenty minuets are now up. Still, my face doesn't feel all dried out and I have retained the ability to smile without cracking the mask. I'm going to go wash the honey off now, am a little concerned about just using warm water and not having to scrub it off but we shall see what happens.

The honey was not as hard to get off my face as I had thought it would be. My skin feels only a little dried out but it does feel super soft and I still smell good. Other than the differences in feeling dried out and the issues in putting the honey on, I don't see that much of a difference from using a commercial mask. As the instructions have said to do it at least once a week, I'll continue the honey facial mask for a few weeks and let you all know how it works out.