Why keep bees? My husband, Greg, is our primary beekeeper!Bees are incredibly important to our life on earth. If the bee were to disappear, the world would be in jeopardy. Crops rely on the heavy pollination of the honey bee.
The value of the honey bee cannot be over-stressed. Raw honey is the purest form of raw food available in nature. It contains everything needed to sustain life, including water ...no other food can do that.
Honey is full of amino acids and antioxidants...some antioxidants are exclusive to honey. It is high in energy, nutrients, and healing properties. (contains more bacterial killing properties than peroxide does)
Raw honey has been used for centuries in healing burns, wounds, stomach ailments, and more. I put it on burns, and it actually helps to reduce scarring.
Honey is also awesome at moisturizing your skin. It adds a little lathering to soaps, but mostly it feeds high nutrients and skin loving moisture into my soap bars.
I use my honey raw...meaning we do not pasteurize it. Pastuerization heats the honey to keep it in a liquifides state (raw honey crystalizes) and is said to kill bacteria in the honey. However, beekeepers know that there is no need to heat honey to kill bacteria...because honey is the ost naturally clean food available on earth.
In fact, heating honey destroys all of its value. Amino acids and antioxidants are cooked away, healing benefits are lost, and moisture content is heated away. Pastuerized honey has been highly tampered with and is no longer what nature made it to be. Honey from the store is nothing more than sweet sugary syrup.
If you are looking for the real benefits that honey can provide you with, look for it in it s raw form only. If a soaper claims to use honey in their soaps....find out if it was raw honey or store bought honey. Know what you are buying, because if not, you are not doing anything special for your skin, like you think you are.
Beware, honey comes in many artificial forms: (artificial meaning not straight from bees and left untouched)
powdered (how can this be good?)
clover honey ...man made
pastuerized
We do not believe in tampering with our honey. We collect it, filter it, and then bottle it. Period.
It has exactly what nature intended it to have. It's whole, pure and healthy. I can not stress enough to know what you are buying when a soaper offers "honey" in their products....because it will do you no good unless it is raw.
