Manuka Whole Foods of Chichester has taken delivery of a fresh batch of Greenman’s BeeBalm with organic Tea Tree Oil, a fantastic defence against cold, dryness and winter bugs around lips and nose. So pop into Manuka and stock up on your winter skin protector!
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The very lovely ethical and friendly Green Valley shop stocks a huge variety of honey and bee products, including propolis. As of last week they are also stocking Greenman’ lip balm range, made with pure African organic beeswax.
Green Valley is in Brighton’s Open Market, off London Road, in the town centre. The proprietor Krzysztof is a bee enthusiast, and his blog this week carries a photo of the beehive he intends to place on the roof of the Old Market
Here’s the link to Green Valleys Shop: https://www.facebook.com/GreenValleys.Natural
If you cant make it into Green Valley, buy online: http://greenmanbodycare.com/beebalmlipbalm.html
BeeBalm lip balm contains organic beeswax from Ethiopian forests – community farmed using traditional African methods, far from civilisation and totally pure! other ingredients are wheat germ oil, Jojoba and tea tree oil. Lovely! Click the image for more info
One of my customers took the trouble to let me know she is using BeeBalm to cure hay-fever symptoms. She was suffering really badly, sneezing, runny nose, red streaming eyes. She was using shop -bought hayfever tablets, which were reasonably effective, but then she thought of rubbing BeeBalm on her nose and eyes – and the symptoms have almost completely disappeared. Beeswax contains traces of bee pollen, which is used to help with hayfever, and I guess the wax also traps pollen, as Marta suggests. Her testimonial is copied below:
In her own words: My hayfever started at the beginning of June this year (every year it’s different but it happens always in Spring/early Summer when the pollen is in the air) and as the air was very dry and windy, it’s been really bad – the antihistamin pills I was taking were helping only for a few hours and I’m not really in favour of taking pills. I’ve started putting lip balm on my eyelids and around my nostrils and it works great! (I guess it stops pollen from entering the body) – I do it every few hours, it depends on weather conditions – but don’t need the pills anymore! I still happen to sneeze or have itchy eyes, but with the lip balm it happens only couple of times a day (whilst before I was sneezing at least couple of hundred times). And it smells really nice 🙂 Highly recommended!
Marta P, Brighton
For more info on Beebalm and how to buy it please visit my website:
1 February 2015. Brighton’s fabulous natural organic balms – BeeBalm and PureBee – are now on sale Brighton’s new ethical food store, Hisbe, on London Road.
Pictured left are the lipbalms on the counter at Hisbe, the front entrance of Hisbe opposite St Peters and a pic of the interior of Hisbe.
“Hisbe” stands for “how it should be”, and reflects the aspirations of the shop to put happiness before profits – to promote good food, make fair profits and pay fair wages, among other things.
Apart from stocking the best natural lip balm (see Greenman’s main website for more details), Hisbe also stocks bulk pulses and grains so you can bring your own containers, and has great prices for organic foods and bodycare products.
A photo of me applying Beebalm in the nick of time!
Earlier today a friend (MP) texted me – she had lost the tube of BeeBalm I gave her last year, and she felt a cold sore coming on. Could I meet her and bring a new tube?
So it must be that time of year again. Although it’s not yet cold, change is in the air, and cold sores start to appear. So I’m posting this post for people who Google “How to prevent cold sores” and “Cure cold sores”. It’s the reason I keep on making BeeBalm, because people I know use it, and it works. So I would like to spread the word.
There is not much new to say, just a reminder to help your skin’s natural defences by eating well and being happy, by not using harsh chemicals and detergents on your skin, and if necessary by lightly applying natural organic oils and organic beeswax.
I make a lip balm that fits the bill perfectly – here’s the link:
My experience of dealing with skin problems including cold sores
I studied Biochemistry and Forestry and used to work in publishing. I used to get cold sores but no longer! (Cross fingers touch wood!) Here’s my opinion. Apart from the obvious advice to live well and eat good organic food, what to do if cold sores start?
The best antiseptic oil in my view is Tea Tree. It is well known as an anti viral oil – check it out in Wikipedia. Only problem some people are sensitive to Tea Tree – it’s too strong for some skins. In any event you should use it diluted in oil, or the most convenient way is in a lip balm. Use a lip balm that is made with beeswax, this will form a protective layer on your skin and help your lips heal themselves. During winter I use Tea Tee lip balm and I don’t really get cold sores anymore. This last winter I didn’t bother, a little one started, and I applied the TeaTree balm and it went the next day. I started making my own my own at home using organic beeswax because you don’t want to be putting non organic beeswax on your face – could contain pesticides and antibiotics. I also prefer to use community farmed products if I can – rather than industrial produce. So I use organic beeswax from African forest communities. I also include jojoba oil because its got oils similar to human skin, and wheat germ oil because its got vitamin E. It really works for me and my friends.
Yes, I do sell it under my Greenman label, I’ve been selling in local shops and online since 2010. It’s called BeeBalm (Tea Tree). It’s stocked in Infinity Foods, Brighton, and Manuka Foods, Chichester, both in the UK. You can also buy it online from my website.
Good luck!
For more info on why I think Beebalm is so good at curing cold sores, click here:
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