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Well I’ve mentioned the sunscreen from Lac Verde which is great, I’ve also been using their Hand Creme which is also excellent. Looking after the organic garden this Summer, I’ve needed a product that can nourish dry and chaffed skin effectively and this is it. Having used Burt’s Bees Hand Salve for a while, I find Lac Verde’s product to be much more effective at repairing dry and damaged skin. It has an impressive list of natural ingredients including Almond oil, Organic Sunflower oil, Safflower oil, Avocado oil, purified water, Beeswax, Lanolin, Vitamin E, Organic Aloe Vera, Organic Comfrey Root, Organic Chamomile, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Essential Oils of Clove and Carrot Seed.

All of the Lace Verde Naturals products use ingredients sourced from a certified organic handler. Organic Hand Creme or to purchase here

I just wanted to give a shout for a great product that I’ve been using all Summer. Lac Verde Naturals have an organic sunscreen that works exceptionally well. Being fair-skinned I need a product that isn’t going to deteriorate after a few hours in the sun, and the Lac Verde sunscreen fits that bill well.
An all natural sunscreen made from a blend of natural and organic herbs, it isn’t too oily and works easily into the skin for lasting protection. There’s a little more information here Lac Verde Sunscreen and they also have a great face creme made with rich royal jelly.
Protect yourself from the harmful rays of the sun!

Bee products are commonly used to combat the affects of aging. This is primarily due to their high amino acid content, which can help improve the immune system and fight off many ailments associated with the onset of old age.
Also, topical applications of royal jelly and propolis can help rejuvenate the skin, remove wrinkles and create a more youthful appearance. Royal jelly in particular is often applied beneath the eyes and can help with crows feet and wrinkles.

The baby boomer generation are active in purchasing supplements, lotions and potions to help maintain a youthful appearance and active lifestyle. Often, supplement and skin care products can cost many hundreds of dollars each month and may have little or no tangible benefit to the user. We feel that level of expenditure is mostly unnecessary and is often the result of aggressive marketing techniques which lure people with the promise of extended life-cycles and young-for-ever appearance.
Bee products contain much more in nutritional terms than the vast majority of health supplements on the market, and their associated benefits to the immune system make place them in the elite few products that really could make a difference.

Try for yourself and report your findings here.

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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.