"Honey, I'm Home and I've Had a Hard Day"

Thanks, Shania, for letting me use your catchy tune as my blog entry title. However, my reasoning has nothing to do with you!

I am halfway through writing my e-book about hair, skin and nails. I am learning an awesome amount of new information that I simply didn't know before. My favorite subject so far are the amazing number of beauty products and remedies that can be found or made right at home, using the simplest of ingredients.

The most fascinating of all of these are the various home uses for honey. You can make honey bath, lotions, moisturizing masks, and cleansing scrub. You can also dab honey onto minor skin burns to help alleviate pain. There is also some ongoing research about eventually using honey in sunscreen, as its use is effective against UV rays.

These bits of information are truly remarkable to me! I plan on trying each of these honey products before the summer is through. The first one I'm going to try is the honey bath. You add 1/4 cup of honey to your bath water and it is supposed to leave your skin silky and fragnant!

Bees are the unsung heroes of the insect world. They work so hard they make the rest of us look like lazy slobs, no matter how hard and long we work! They produce honey as a career and we are the happy consumers. Yet, they get a bad rap. I admit, I am afraid of bees (mostly wasps, but I run from bees, too). They say that bees are not out to get people and will only sting if scared or provoked. But still I don't trust them. There is something about their ability to fly toward me at top speed and place their little stingers in me without notice that scares me to no end!

But they really don't deserve their infamous reputation. I admit that. I admit that I even admire them a little bit. They are born with one objective in mind-"must make honey, must make honey". How nice would that be to be born with our own instinctive solitary objective that everything we do leads up to. "I must teach kids, I must teach kids" wasn't my inborn mantra, but I found my career of choice nonetheless.

If you're interested in relaxing at home after a hard day's work, think about the life of a worker bee and then enjoy the fruits of their labor with a honey bath. Let me know what you think of it! When I try it, I'll pass my opinion on as well!