15 Uses for Raw Honey Beyond Your Morning Tea

Uses for raw honey go far past sweetening your tea: true unheated honey is a humectant, gently antibacterial, and full of enzymes, which makes it useful in the kitchen, the bathroom, and the small rituals in between. Once you keep a good jar around, you reach for it constantly.

In the kitchen

Stir it into warm (not boiling) tea so the enzymes survive; whisk it into salad dressings and marinades; drizzle it over yogurt, oatmeal, or sharp cheese; sweeten baking in place of refined sugar; or spoon a little into a glass of warm water with lemon. Raw honey's flavor shifts with the season and the flowers, so it brings more character than plain sugar ever could.

For comfort and care

A spoonful soothes a scratchy throat and quiets a nighttime cough; stirred into warm water it makes a simple comforting drink; and many people keep it on hand as a gentle, time-honored kitchen staple for small scrapes (clean skin only, and see a professional for anything serious).

For skin and rituals

Raw honey is one of the oldest skincare ingredients there is. Use it as a ten-minute face mask, as a dab on a blemish, as a gentle cleanse massaged into damp skin, or smoothed onto dry lips. It draws moisture in and leaves skin calm rather than tight.

Why raw makes the difference

Heated, ultra-filtered honey loses the enzymes, pollen, and trace propolis that make raw honey worth all this. Ours is raw wildflower honey, unheated and unfiltered, harvested in small batches from our own Snoqualmie hives, so what's in the jar still carries everything the bees put there.

Discover our raw wildflower honey and find your own favorite uses. ✧

Frequently asked questions

What can you do with raw honey besides eat it? Use it as a face mask or cleanser, to soothe a sore throat, in dressings and baking, or stirred into warm water: its uses span kitchen and skincare.

Can you put raw honey in hot tea? Stir it into warm rather than boiling tea; very high heat degrades the enzymes that make raw honey special.

Does raw honey go bad? Pure raw honey keeps almost indefinitely; if it crystallizes, that's a sign of quality, not spoilage.