My New Honey, Part 1

I have dark circles around my eyes that made me look like a raccoon. My only consolation is that raccoons are cute.

I blamed the raccoon look to stress (well, that’s when I tell my friends when they asked me about my eyes). I love reading and I concluded that washing my face afterwards must be the cause of my raccoon look. I didn’t mind it back then when my skin is healthier and I have other things to worry besides my look.

As I said, it never bothered me before until now. I can’t help but be convinced by the ubiquitous beauty magazines that healthy eyes will make me look years younger. Now that I’m 26, the area around my eyes has gone noticeably transparent which made the dark circles more apparent. No amount of sleep was able to lessen the dark circles. I stopped washing my face with water blaming it for the dark cirles. Effect? Nada. I even resorted to Avon eye cream. I think the Avon made it worse. I started to feel itchiness in my eyes and i only find relief by rubbing them. I know the “beauty law” against eye-rubbing but I can’t seem to resist it. There are also times when I find my eyes very painful as if pricked by tiny needles and my eyes becomes watery for no apparent reason. That’s when I decided to stop my Avon eye cream. Fortunately, the pricking sensation stopped but the itchiness remained. Now that I think about it, I’ve experience eye-itchiness long before I used the cream. The cream only magnified it. I lived through the itchiness until my readings pointed to the itchiness as the culprit of my not-so-cute-anymore raccoon look.

My reading gave me a pleasant surprise. Who would ever think that honey has been used as antibacterial and anti fungal long before the scientist came to prove its worth? I guess I found an all-in-one solution to my beauty problems. Here’s what I found out….

The itchiness of my eyes may be due to an infection of my conjunctiva (conjunctiva is the thin, transparent tissue that covers the outer surface of the eye. It begins at the outer edge of the cornea, covering the visible part of the sclera, and lining the inside of the eyelids. It is nourished by tiny blood vessels that are nearly invisible to the naked eye. The conjunctiva also secretes oils and mucous that moistens and lubricates the eye, blah blah blah). Eye rubbing may have caused the tiny capillaries around my eyes to burst. To make it non scientific, the dark circles around my eyes are simply bruises, sort of debris of dead blood. The first step to eliminating my raccoon look is to cure my conjunctivitis.

Recipe for Conjunctivitis :

1 teaspoon honey

1 teaspoon warm bottled water

This post is unfinished. I still have lots to share about honey for overall healthy body.

http://itotd.com/articles/218/honey-as-medicine/; http://health.learninginfo.org/benefits-of-honey.htm; http://www.geocities.com/mutmainaa/food/honey_cure.html