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flavouring humectant skin conditioning

Honey

Mel

Características

INCI
Honey
Ru.
Mel
CAS
8028-66-8
IUPAC
Mel (Eu)
Funções
flavouring, humectant, skin conditioning

Для кого подходит

Skin Type
▲ Dry ▲ Normal ▲ Sensitive ▲ Acne-Prone
Face Concern
▲ Acne ▲ Hydration ▲ Barrier Repair ▲ Soothing ▲ Antioxidant
Body Concern
▲ Dryness ▲ Sensitivity
Hair Concern
▲ Damage ▲ Hydration ▲ Scalp Health
Application Area
▲ Face ▲ Body ▲ Hair ▲ Scalp ▲ Eyes ▲ Lips
honey is a saccharic secretion gathered and stored by honey bees, apis mellifera.

Descrição

We all know honey as the sweet, gooey stuff that is lovely to sweeten a good cup of tea and we have good news about putting honey all over our skin. It is just as lovely on the skin as it is in the tea. 

The great review article about honey in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology writes that it is arguably the oldest skincare ingredientand evidence from around 4500 BC mentions honey in some eye cream recipes. Chemically speaking, it is a bee-derived, supersaturated sugar solution. About 95% of honey dry weight is sugar and the other 5% consists of a great number of other minor components including proteins, amino acids, vitamins, enzymes, and minerals

This unique and complex chemical composition gives honey a bunch of nice skin care properties: it is very moisturizing, has soothing and antioxidantabilities as well as significant antibacterial and antifungal magic powers. There is also a lot of empirical evidence with emerging scientific backup that honey dressing promotes the healing of wounds and burns.

One tricky thing about honey though, is that it can have lots of different floral sources and different types of honey have a somewhat different composition and thus somewhat different properties. For example, thedarker the honey the richer it is in antioxidant phenolic compounds.  Two special types of honey are acacia and manuka. The former is unique and popular because of its higher than usual fructose content that makes it more water-soluble and easier to stabilize in cosmetic formulas. The latter comes from the Leptospermum Scoparium tree native to New Zeland and its special thing is its extra strong antibacterial power due to a unique component called methylglyoxal.  

Overall, honey is a real skin-goodie in pretty much every shape and form, and it is a nice one to spot on the ingredient list. 

Provas e investigação

Publicações e fontes científicas 4
  • 1
    Bogdanov, Stefan. "Honey composition." The honey book (2009).
  • 2
    Burlando, Bruno, and Laura Cornara. "Honey in dermatology and skin care: a review." Journal of cosmetic dermatology 12.4 (2013): 306-313.
    Encontre em PubMed
  • 3
    Efem, S. E. E. "Clinical observations on the wound healing properties of honey." British journal of Surgery 75.7 (1988): 679-681.
    Encontre em PubMed
  • 4
    Jull, Andrew B., Anthony Rodgers, and Natalie Walker. "Honey as a topical treatment for wounds." Cochrane Database Syst Rev 4 (2008).

Encontrado em produtos (2 481 total)

Cabelo
Cuidado facial
Sinónimos
- Mel - Mel/Honey - (Fairly Traded) Honey (Hawaiian) Noni Honey (Honey) Mel (Leptospermum Scoparium Mel) Manuka Honey (Active 20+) (Manuka) Honey (Nhp) Manuka Honey (16+) (Pure Colorado) Honey (Raw Black) Honey (Taos Bee Raw) Honey (Wild Blossom) Honey [Honey] * Mel (Honey) ****Raw Manuka Honey