BEAUTY KNOWHOW The ingredient creating a real buzz Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Beauty BEAUTY KNOWHOW The ingredient creating a real buzz By You Magazine - March 21, 2021 Soothing, hydrating, nourishing… manuka honey is hitting my skin’s sweet spot right now. As far back as Ancient Egypt it’s believed that the likes of Cleopatra and Nefertiti would use honey in baths and face masks. Fast forward a few millennia and honey is still a beauty favourite. There’s been a renewed focus on it as a skincare ingredient, particularly manuka honey which is considered to be more beneficial than other varieties and good for healing wounds. A jar of the highest quality can easily cost £100. It forms a key part of the Seed To Skin The Manuka Nutri-Mask (£115, seedtoskin.com). This is one of my favourite skincare brands. It’s created with such integrity by founders Jeanette and Claus Thottrup, who also run the luxurious Borgo Santo Pietro Hotel and Spa in Tuscany. They grow many of their own ingredients on their land and this is no exception. ‘The high-grade manuka honey which we grow on our estate is a real powerhouse ingredient,’ says Jeanette. ‘Full of antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and anti-ageing properties, it is one of the most precious and sacred honeys in the world. Manuka honey provides antioxidant protection by deep-diving into the skin’s epidermis damaged by the exposure to free radicals [due to the environment and pollution], which makes it a fantastic mask to help slow the effects of time on your skin.’ But the benefits don’t stop there. ‘We wanted to create a mask [more than 55 per cent of which is composed of manuka honey] with incredible healing properties and a solution for acne-prone, scarred and pigmented skin and replenish it with the nutrients and enzymes found only in manuka honey for a naturally radiant and rejuvenated complexion.’ This is a wonderfully hydrating and complexion-boosting mask, and also contains vitamin C for skin clarity, stevia leaf to work on wrinkles and ferulic acid to improve skin strength. Paint it on two to three times a week with the brush provided and leave for ten minutes to see best results. I love it. Manuka honey is also used in two new cleansers: Keys Soulcare Golden Cleanser (£20, cultbeauty.co.uk) and PSA Acai & Manuka Honey Reset Nourishing Cleanser (£28, psaskin.com). Both are gentle but effective. I highly recommend them. Manuka-rich Nursem Caring Hand Cream (£10, couvertureandthegarbstore.com), created by a former paediatric nurse, is one of the most caring and fast-absorbing creams I’ve tried. It works wonders even on super-dry patches. Beauty assistant: Alice Robertson RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR You could get paid to test Liberty’ s Beauty Advent Calendar People are obsessed with this Revlon hair drying tool A new drop of Boots Star Gifts has landed for Christmas 2022 Popular in Beauty People are seriously impressed with Primark’ s £8 skinny curling tongs December 16, 2019 Boots is giving away free lipsticks to celebrate the launch of January 23, 2020 This long-lasting eyebrow product is getting rave reviews and is just June 21, 2021 These Liz Earle gift sets are on sale just in time March 5, 2020 WIN A Kiehl’ s skincare heroes bundle worth £104 July 24, 2020 Cult skincare brand Sunday Riley is branching out into hair products April 24, 2020 Superdrug is holding a huge BOGOF sale on all cosmetics for May 28, 2020 Your salon could charge you extra for overgrown roots and bad June 25, 2020 Facial steamers Why searches for this beauty gadget were up 400 July 10, 2020 Lush subscription boxes have arrived and they contain exclusive new products August 3, 2020 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved