Would you hesitate to apply a mask made from honey and royal jelly to your face? The result is however surprising …
On the label, the royal jelly cure honey from Ballot-Flurin looks a bit like the miracle product: it protects your body, it improves your vitality, your memory, it reduces your fatigue, your stress … As many virtues attributed in particular to Royal jelly, a real health elixir known to delay the effects of aging thanks to its vitamin B5 content.
More surprising: applied as a mask on the face, it restores suppleness to the skin and acts as a natural anti-wrinkle. All you have to do is test … And indeed, to the touch, the skin is softer, more supple. A real facelift.
This is because apicosmetics has solid beauty arguments to brag about. the honey is known as an excellent moisturizer and softener. It strengthens the elasticity of the skin. It also helps in healing. The propolis has healing, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial action. It is indicated to treat the skin with imperfections. the pollen combats the action of free radicals and thus delays the effects of organic aging in general, of the skin, hair and nails in particular. “Pollen is effective for dry, rough, devitalized skin, notes Claudette Raynal-Cartabas (1). It has an emollient action (2), it acts on eczema and acne.” And to add: “It tones the hair and fights hair loss, it strengthens brittle or split nails.”
Thus, on the cosmetics market, you will find a wide range of creams, masks, honey-based balms, pollen, royal jelly… To name but a few, Sanoflore offers a plant balm with regenerating and protective organic lime blossom honey; Melvita has developed a range for the face and for the body called Apicosma, etc.
The “house” recipes will perhaps tempt you more like that of the delicious mask with pollen of Prof. Roch Domerego to find in “The Remedies of the hive”. Or a royal jelly cure with beauty AND health benefits.
When we told you that bees were precious allies …
(1) “Healing with bees, Apitherapy and Chinese medicine”, Claudette Raynal-Cartabas, Guy Trédaniel editor, 2005, € 22.
(2) It softens and relaxes inflamed tissue.
(3) “Hive Remedies”, Prof. Roch Domerego, Dr Gaëlle Imbert, Christian Blanchard, Editions Alpen, 2008, € 9.50.
