no problem dude lol
and i dont know, honey has been foudn to be antibacterial, and ive found putting it on cuts will heal them a LOT faster than using neosporin
the darker the honey the more antibacterial properties it contains
Source?
lots of different websites, i looked it up like four months ago, on a different computer, so no chance of pulling the same hting up again
idk
try webmd or something
While that kind of response ("read it somewhere long ago, can't find it now") is generally a red flag that often ends up with "I read it on the national enquirer next to 'Texas woman gives birth to alien devil babies'", in this case it's actually true.
People did a bit more rigorous tests comparing honey with just very concentrated sugar and water (which also kills a lot of bacteria of course just by depriving them of water, as food preservers have known for a long time), and find out that the sugar is the main but not the only mechanism that makes honey a good antibacterial, since honey kills a bit more than syrup through a few extra chemicals and mechanisms (it has things like hydrogen peroxide and high oxidation, phenolic acids and general acidity, etc).
You can read more on that early test in the 1998 Infection Journal article:
Causes of the antimicrobial activity of honey.Still, generally in many cases it's not necessarily a good idea or there could be a lot better things to use, there's a lot of stuff that can be used to kill bacteria, and not all of it is always sanitary, plus you might want to worry about additional things like avoiding scarring etc.
But if you don't have anything better around, no bandages or better disinfectants, and all you have is honey then by all means that might be something to consider (as long as you are not sleeping near ants etc for example
Also, you really need to keep in mind that using honey instead of conventional antibacterial agents also introduces a bunch of its own microorganisms, like other bacteria and molds naturally present in it, some of which actually survive the hygroscopicity, hyperosmolarity and acidity of honey. Especially if you have a somewhat compromised immune system you should really be careful in using it just because it 'sounds' more natural. You can read more about that in journal articles and studies like:
Honey: a reservoir for microorganisms and an inhibitory agent for microbes.
