I love BeeCeuticals! They make the best lip balm ever. USDA certfied organic. I switched to them after Burt's became a line I steer clear from (Burt's was bought by Clorox! Hello!) and have never looked back. BeeCeuticals is the best. Burt's claims "natural" BeeCeuticals has many certified organic products and takes the cake any day.

BeeCeuticals is doing the right thing in supporting organic beekeeping. I spoke with them at a tradeshow and they really know what they are talking about in terms of bee conservation and organic farming. I was truly impressed. I became a loyal user of their products soon after. I was also impressed to see them have the Fair Trade logo on their body care. Something I did not know existed. Good for them. Great people, great products.

It sounds lovely for someone that doesn't react to wheat proteins.

I used the Beeyond Body Balm during my pregnancy and it was wonderful. I almost annoyed everyone I knew telling them how much I love these products. I just can't say enough about them. I have no stretch marks thanks to BeeCeuticals.

I heard about this on Howard Stern and got some at Whole Foods. It is a great shampoo.

Richie and Julie who own BeeCeuticals used to have the Bread of Life Natural Food Stores down here is Florida that merged with Whole Foods. They are the most wonderful, personable and concerned people on Earth. I have no doubt that the products they created are the healthiest and most ecologicially friendly products out there. I shopped at their stores for years and learned so much from them. I can't wait to try this line!

I buy this line at the farmer's markets they do and am glad to see them finally get the recognition they deserve. It is always fun and educational to talk to them. A great green line with an authetic message. There are too many companies like Burt's Bull out there that have to fake it to make it now. This company actually walks the walk. This company is the future of organic body care and exemplifies the way things should be headed.

What's the diff between this and burts bee. Natural vs. organic?

Are you kidding me? Burt's is the biggest joke on the block. If you use them you are uninformed or misinformed. Anyone interested in preserving natural and organic standards should boycott Burt's Bees. I live in North Carolina and my local health food store stopped carrying them because they came to the store and were so rude and arrogrant it was embarrassing. They had no answers in the face of all the questions posed to them so they took on this air of "trust me, we know better than you." I look forward to trying this Beeceuticals line and am hoping Burt's Bees goes away. I equate Burt's with Pantene or L'Oreal at this point.

Sonja,

Burt's is owned by Clorox who tests on animals. What could be more of a contradiction in beliefs? The Burt's you buy today is not the Burt's you bought ten years ago. Burt's was yesterday, BeeCeuticals is today. Organic is where it is at.

Use it. Love it. BeeCeuticals rocks.

I took my kids to their Bee-in and we learned all about bees and how to plant a pollinator garden. It was a great family experience and we still have our pollinator garden in the yard thanks to Beeceuticals and are visited by bees and butterflies daily. We use the shampoo and lotions but wish they made more products.

This is non vegan. Enough said.

Organic beekeeping is very bee-friendly. It has to be three miles from any pesticide or insecticide spraying, the bees must have unpainted wood hives and beekeepers can use no convetional vet medicines. Bee health and sustainability is of utmost importance and logs must be kept on the health of each hive. This is miles away from conventional beekeeping. Many people are confused about organic beekeeping saying "how can bees be organic?". It is that the flowers the bees collect the nectar from to make the honey are organic and unsprayed for up to three miles around the hive--the maximum distance a bee will travel for food. BeeCeuticals uses only organic bee products so I will definitely be supporting them.

I keep hearing this stuff plugged on Howard Stern.

But do the bees get to keep enough of their own honey and bee bread for the winter or are they fed with high fructose corn syrup or something? And what's a "conventional vet medicine"? I thought they used tetracycline most of the time. Is that a "conventional vet medicine" or a "conventional human physician medicine"?

This sounds sort of like "happy meat" to me. Honey is food for bees. Why do people want to put it in their hair--no, why ARE people putting it in their hair or anywhere else for that matter. Don't we have a honeybee crisis on our hands now? Shouldn't we be letting the bees keep their natural food source for their FOOD?

But do the bees get to keep enough of their own honey and bee bread for the winter or are they fed with high fructose corn syrup or something? And what's a "conventional vet medicine"? I thought they used tetracycline most of the time. Is that a "conventional vet medicine" or a "conventional human physician medicine"?

This sounds sort of like "happy meat" to me. Honey is food for bees. Why do people want to put it in their hair--no, why ARE people putting it in their hair or anywhere else for that matter. Don't we have a honeybee crisis on our hands now? Shouldn't we be letting the bees keep their natural food source for their FOOD?

Organic beekeeping is supportive of bees as they are only allowed to harvest 1/3 of the honey and leave the rest for the bees. Conventional beekeepers stip the hive and leave them corn syrup. Organic beekeepers cannot do this. This 1/3 harvest also prevents swarming and is a very sustainable thing to do to ensure the health of the hive. And by the way, organic beekeepers are not exeriencing hive loss, so by this company supporting organic it will encourage more organic beekeeping. Colony Collapse is onl happening to conventional keepers. This is not "happy meat" like you say. The bees are not killed and eaten. They are in fact supported much more than they would be in the wild with organic beekeeping. Also, they never use tetracycline on the bees. The only "medicines" they can use are essential oils and herbs.

Margarita,

Are you saying that we shouldn't use olive oil on our skin because that is "people" food? Honey is great for your hair and skin and has been used for centuries. The first written prescription was for honey to treat a battle wound. 90% of the native bee population in the country is dying. Supporting organic beekeeping and getting the message out about the problems is very important.

What I'm saying is that, "organic" or not, this is an animal that's been exploited for and abused now for too long--and it shows.

Honey is food for the colony during wintertime when there is less forage and the temperatures are too cold for it anyway. The fact that it's "great for your hair and skin" doesn't take away from the fact that you'd be taking away this animal's winter sustenance. They know how much to make for the hive's survival.

I suppose the equivalent in human terms would be the significant reduction of your family's food budget--so that someone could spend the money on non-food items for their pleasure--that, incidentally, may or may not be "great for their hair and skin".

Someone's made a documentary about the vanishing bees, and the prognosis doesn't look very good for them--which means, us.

www.vanishingbees.com

You are talking about two totally different things. Bees are non-native in North America. If there were no beekeepers, there would be no honeybees in America. I agree with you and think that conventional beekeeping is not healthy for bees BUT ORGANIC beekeeping is the way all beekeeping should be done if it is done. It is healthy for bees. Beeceuticals is not stripping hives or exploiting bees. If you want to go talk about someone stripping hives, go look at Burt who only uses conventional methods. I am not trying to convince you but am saying that ORGANIC BEEKEEPING is healthy for a hive and does not starve it and ensures that the hive is nurtured and supported. I am a biologist and a vegan and became very intersted in beekeeping after an argument I had with a beekeeper. After taking the time to research and learn more I discovered that ORGANIC beekeeping really is helpful to bees. I'll leave it at that. I oppose CONVENTIONAL beekeeping which partakes in all of the things of which you speak.

I appreciate your argument, but the fact that this species of bee was brought here (like so many other animals) by humans doesn't mean that they couldn't get along without us now. I don't think that's really an argument, and a surprising one coming from a vegan, I might add. The, if-we-don't-take-care-of-them-and/or-eat-them-they-will-not-continue-to-exist argument for bees--or any other animal is just bad. Wrong, wrong, wrong. And arrogant.

The fact is, we don't need bees' honey or wax or bread or any other thing that they may produce for THEIR OWN SURVIVAL. Sure, we should be practicing organic in all that we do to help the survival of ALL pollinators--ourselves, for that matter. Leaving fields fallow and not using synthetic chemicals to farm or keep our lawns green or whatever; not planting genetically modified crops and actually doing something about climate change and pollution--these are the things that will help the honeybee, not organic beekeeping.

It's still treating the bee as a commodity and misses the point of what we humans "need" versus what we "want".

You want good skin and hair? Try fresh air and exercise and good, clean food and water, a good night's rest.

You want to help the honeybee? Stop using chemicals on your lawn, on your body, stop driving SUV's, let some weeds grow, plant some wildflowers, stop taking away their food, and vote for someone who will actually do something good about our declining environment.

But don't make Burt's or Beeceuticals rich off of some poor animal's back. "Organic" or no.

Margarita, you are an excellent proponent of a subsistence lifestyle - we shouldn't use what we don't need.

So when did you give up electricity, indoor plumbing, indoor heat and cooling, non-walking transportation, computers, and telephones? In fact, how did you get to share your opinions with us all without using a bunch of destructive, unnecessary technology?

Burt, I presume?

Good points anonymous. We have to work on all those, to make them the least disturbing for our environment. Are you going to?