Raw honey and coconut oil are versatile and healing ingredients. Today, they’re used for their amazing nutritional properties, as well as for their healing and cosmetic advantages in plenty of recipes.
When combined together or with other healing ingredients, their power increases additionally. Below, check out five awesome ways of increasing their power by combining them and using them to promote better health.
5 Amazing Ways to Combine Honey & Coconut Oil for Healing
- Homemade hair mask
Blow dryers, sun exposure, etc. can damage the hair. But thanks to these two ingredients, you will encourage the hair’s healing and help the strands become softer and smoother.
To prep the mask, you’ll need:
A tbsp of coconut oil
A tbsp of raw honey
Prep:
Combine the ingredients in a bowl. Apply it onto the whole hair, either wet or dry. Leave it for an hour before rinsing it off.
- Anti-cough syrup (cocohoney)
When coconut oil and honey are combined with lemon juice, you get a powerful healing syrup to reduce coughing. It can also be taken as prevention for coughing and to strengthen our immunity.
You’ll need:
3 tbsp lemon juice
¼ cup of honey
2 tbsp of coconut oil
Prep:
Mix the honey and lemon juice. Put the coconut oil in a saucepan and bring it over low heat. Once it becomes liquid, add the previous mixture and leave it for several seconds and then put it aside. Store the syrup in a glass container.
Use: 1 to 2 tsp added to hot water or tea.
- Delicious & healing berry smoothie
When added to berries and avocado smoothie, honey and coconut oil add to the smoothie’s nutrient profile and prolong your satiety. To prep it, you’ll need:
½ avocado
1 cup of coconut water
A tbsp of honey
A cup of frozen mixed berries
A tbsp of coconut oil
Prep:
Blend the ingredients for a minute to get a homogenous mixture. Pour it in a glass and enjoy.
- Nourishing & hydrating facial mask
The topical application of honey is praised for its ability to heal acne whereas topical application of coconut oil is praised for its moisturizing effects.
When you combine the two for a facial mask, you help lower wrinkles, better the facial complexion, and boost the skin’s youthful appearance.
To make it, you’ll need:
A tbsp of coconut oil
A tbsp of honey
Prep:
Mix the ingredients in a bowl. Apply the mixture onto a previously cleaned face and neck. Leave it for half an hour and then rinse it off with lukewarm water.
- Honey & coconut butter
This butter is amazing as a spread, as a nutritious boost to your smoothies, oatmeal, and granola, like a pancake spread, etc.
To make it, you’ll need:
A cup of coconut oil
¼ cup of honey
2 tbsp of cinnamon powder
½ tbsp of sea salt
Prep:
Process the ingredients in a food processor and transfer the mixture into a glass container.
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