Raw, Organic, and Vegan Products and Food Online
by Mairi Beautyman, Berlin, Germany on 09.20.06
If you live in New York, you have probably heard of Pure Food & Wine, the Gramercy culinary hotspot which dishes out critically-acclaimed raw, organic, and vegan fair. Turns out they also have an extensive online arm—One Lucky Duck—offering skin care products, clothing, and food. You guessed it, everything here is also raw, organic, and vegan. For example, Be Yummy Skin Food, a rich body cream made from honey, honey cappings, bee pollen, propolis, st. john's wort oil, royal jelly, purified water, and balsam fir needles (for fragrance). This sounds nice..but without preservatives….will you have a sticky mess in three months?
“Honey, propolis, and balsam fir are the nature's best preservatives and antibiotics,” the company assures us. The natural ingredients come at a price: One 4 ounce tub is $45. Other notables: Crystal Ally Spray Deodorant (a more reasonable $12.95), which reportedly stimulates lymphatic flow with essential oils from grapefruits and tangerines, and Raw Ice Cream (call for pricing and delivery), a dairy-free indulgence sweetened with raw agave nectar instead of processed, unnatural sugars. ::One Lucky Duck via ::Lucky Magazine
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but it's not vegan if it contains honey, is it?
Sure, honey is actually a plant, dont'cha know?
Seriously, honey is not at all vegan as it is most definitely an animal product (bee spit).
Sure, honey is actually a plant, dont'cha know?
Seriously, honey is not at all vegan as it is most definitely an animal product (bee spit).
Hey Miari,
It's about time the Treehugger team caught wind of One Lucky Duck. They are hip and earth friendly!
I am familiar with the products One Lucky Duck carries, and as far as I can tell, honey is the only thing they use that is an animal product.
Otherwise, 99.99% of the food at Pure Food and Wine is vegan. In fact, I do not know what items they have on the menu would have honey in it. You'd have to check with them just to make sure if you feel that is a concern for you.
I'd say 99% of the stuff at One Lucky Duck is vegan too. I think that "Bee Yummy" product is a rare exception.
~ Heidi
I have used Bee Yummy Skinfood and I think it a fabulous product. Besides helping moisturize my skin I also used it for healing like the company that makes it, live live & organic, suggested. I had great results with acne when I used it therapeutically. As far as honey I had some doubts because so many bees are mistreated. However after learning how the bees are treated by the beekeeper at this company (better than many people treat each other I think!) I had no problem using this product. To me using something made by the animals (specially if they are not harmed or robbed) is very different from using the parts of dead animals.
Monica
i agree with the first comment, vegans cant, wont or dont choose to use honey, but that skin food does look tempting though ;).
i've been using a chocolate body scrub that i love from http://missinky.com, and all the products are vegan certified.
isn't honey a preservative itself? thus it should stay "fresh" and what not.
Thats not a vegan honey product because being a vegan I know that even honey is off limits Treehugger needs to be careful how they phrase things.............