So I tried out a honey mask on Sunday night. The honey mask appealed to me because of its “deeply hydrating” qualities. Lord knows I need it this winter, especially with these mounds of snow that keeps getting bigger each week as another snowstorm decides to diarrhea on us. This snow needs to stop. But I digress. Cold weather in New England = dry = wrinkles on my face show up more.
The recipe is really straight forward. Honey. On face. Woo, I love recipes like this: simple and inexpensive. It wasn’t as runny on my face as the author made it out to be. At the end of 15 minutes, Troules recommends patting your face with your fingertips like you are playing the piano. I tried it and it hurts. It felt like sharp little stings. So that only prevailed for about 20 seconds before I wiped all the honey off my face. It comes off surprisingly easy for which I was grateful.
The most noticeable after effect was that all my self-tanner was completely stripped from my face. So there I am – looking at my pale white face, while my neck and shoulders are still a nice golden brown. Woops, I didn’t even think that could possibly happen. Second effect was the way the area around my eyes felt like liquid. I know that’s a weird way to explain it, but they felt so filled in.
Those were the immediate effects but I haven’t noticed any huge changes two days later. My face felt pretty smooth for all of yesterday, though. I’m hoping to continue with this for a couple of weeks and at least see where it leads. I don’t believe one try is enough for a successful analysis.
I’ve only tried this one recipe so far because I don’t have any ingredients for the other recipes. I'm on the last leg of my research, I believe…slowly working through Herbal Healing for Women. I have a lot of recipes I want to try from the other two books, but Herbal Healing has so much good info in it that I really want to take my time in reading it thoroughly. Once all the books are read, and all ingredients recorded, I will venture out into the unknown world of finding herbs.
As for my nutrition – I have started to have a cup of fruit along with yogurt as my morning snack! I am trying to be healthier, one step at a time and I think this is a good way to start. No huge bodily changes yet but we’ll see. Speaking of food, Liv – did you get the recipe book that was on your list? If so, send me some recipes via photocopying or scanning! I’d love to try some.
I would love to support local herbal stores and learn where I can buy common herbs without having to go online. But that in itself is a whole project to undertake. Thank goodness for Yelp, it has helped me to have a starting point where I can at least wander the Boston area and look at possible stores. I’m crossing my fingers that somewhere in my quest I will find one good store that I can rely on. You would think that Boston would have tons of options, but it’s really harder than I thought. I hope to start this weekend by exploring some stores, if we don’t get slammed with another snowstorm (yes, there is another one slated for this weekend grr). And perhaps (this may be getting my hopes up too much though) meeting people on the way who can help me and share a common affiliation.
Speaking of people sharing common interests: I am still debating if I want to join the 10th International Herb Symposium in June. http://www.internationalherbsymposium.com/ It’s hosted/directed by Rosemary Gladstar, who will also lead some discussions, and David Hoffman will be there speaking too. Exciting! Located in Massachusetts, I would be able to get to it within an hour and not pay full price – only pay for meals, a total of $75. Great price since I live close by, but I would also have to pay for some materials if I want to join classes that are very hands-on. I’m truly debating this. It looks like a good conference with many classes/workshops for beginners. I think I will see how this goes and if I have learned enough and invested enough by April or May, perhaps then I can join up. I hope there’s no limit on how many people can join the conference. It seems like a good place to start, but also nervous because I’m not sure I want to go by myself. So this I’m also debating as we continue this project.
I love the idea of an herbal convention!! That would be so cool! And by Spring you may really have a handle on some of the different herbs you like. You could call me before/after you go if you want and maybe you would feel less alone or more courageous? I bet there would be a lot of people who would love to share stuff they know with you... could be very, very interesting.
ReplyDeleteYour honey mask sounds really nice and I'm impressed it wasn't to hard to get off. I'm going to keep trying my oatmeal mask but if I still breakout - switching to honey :).