The Honeybee balm is a healing hydrating balm for all your skin, face, lips, hands and heels and everything in between!
I made the Balm for my mother. I was caring for her and the doctors kept giving her lotion full of chemicals that did nothing to heal her skin. As I was walking onto my apiary, I decided that I could do better with all my bee products.
Just a few perfect ingredients make up the balm, Royal Jelly, Pollen, Propolis, Honey, Beeswax and Organic Sunflower seed Oil.
And so the Honeybee Balm was born out of necessity and love for my mother!
Buzz on!
Propolis is one of the most magical substances that the bees produce. The bees fly around to all the trees and shrubs locally and collect sap to line their hive with. It prevents mold from forming, because it is antibiotic, anti microbial and antifungal. My toner is made from my propolis that I collect from my hives and a local organic maize alcohol for the tincture, which I mix with my mountain water that I have distilled. It is constantly changing with whatever sap the bees can bring back to the hive, and it smells and tastes like tree sap! I use the toner to reduce bacteria on my skin and in my mouth. I always spray it into my...
I caught a swarm! I came home the other day and was walking around my property and into my orchard and noticed all the bees swirling around in the air and the hives. I realized that the bees had just left their hive and were about to settle somewhere and that was when I could catch them and rehive the whole cluster of bees. When the queen decides to move, she lays some eggs in queen cells and when they are capped, she takes about half the bees and leaves the hive. They settle somewhere usually close by, and some bees go in search of a new home. I have found that when they settle I have about an hour...
This past winter was low snow and warmer than normal. I was not happy, as I love to ski, but my bees are happy. The bees are so happy with the warm weather, and they came out of their hibernation and are buzzing with gay abandon!
I'm beyond happy that I didn't lose any hives this winter, which is really amazing as most bee keepers do lose some hives every winter. I left my hives with lots of honeycomb so that they wouldn't run out of food stores, and would come out of the winter with vigor and a growing population.
