Royal Jelly | Bee Pollen Blog

I’ve had a few emails recently relating to my post about the quality of royal jelly in skin care products and whether or not it’s nutritional grade. I’m not an expert in this field but I would have to doubt that royal jelly used by Burt’s Bees, Jaffra and Bee Alive (to name a few) is of nutritional grade or anything close to 10 HDA. And it probably doesn’t need to be, since it isn’t being ingested.
Also, to name a couple other suppliers, Beehive Botanicals in Hayward WI, and of course our own Lac Verde Naturals. In Lac Verde products, we use nutritional grade royal jelly and beeswax, since we’re small and we use what we have readily available to us. Since the Lac Verde Organic skin care line was a ‘test’ run, for market research purposes, it wasn’t cost-prohibitive to use high quality royal jelly. (Fresh, liquid form too).
Given the excellent feedback we’ve had on Lac Verde Organics, we’d be hesitant to use royal jelly in any other form, should we decide to take that line into full production in the future.
For now, if you’re interested in knowing what the quality of royal jelly is, in a particular product, you would need to contact Burt’s Bees, Bee Alive or whomever supplies your products.