I love honey and was horrified to read that radiation from cell phones might be killing our honeybees! The theory is that radiation given off by mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the bees from finding their way back to their hives. If this is true, it could wipe out our bees and thus our honey! I not only love eating honey, I love beauty products with honey in it. There are many beauty benefits of honey, it's a natural humectant so it attracts and retains moisture to your skin. It contains essential vitamins such as B5 and panothenic acid as well as minerals such as zinc and magnesium, which further increase the skin's moisture retention. Besides all of these benefits, honey is also the only sweetener that contains amino acids, the essential building blocks of proteins, which cells need to grow and maintain their structure! If you have not tried any honey based products, here are a few of my favorites:
Mario Badescu has a delicious smelling Honey Moisturizer with orange extract to hydrate and nourish skin. Also contains AHA to smooth and soften skin. $25
L'Occitane Honey Face Cream has a blend of propolis, royal jelly and honey from bee hives in the Provencal (even the bees are chic in France!) $34
Erase wrinkles with Collective Wellbeing's Honey Buff- packed with vitamin C in addition to honey, it exfoliates while softening.
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I've heard of this too, it's quite alarming. I love honey too, I use it in my homemade masks!
The whole line by Burt's Bee is good too! =)
it is going to wipe out a lot more than honey -
In addition to gathering nectar to produce honey, honey bees perform another vital function; pollination of agricultural crops, home gardens, orchards and wildlife habitat. As bees travel from blossom to blossom in search of nectar, they transfer pollen from plant to plant, thus fertilizing the plants and enabling them to bear fruit.
Almonds, apples, avocados, blueberries, cantaloupes, cherries, cranberries, cucumbers, sunflowers, watermelon and many other crops all rely on honey bees for pollination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that about one-third of the human diet is derived from insect-pollinated plants and that the honey bee is responsible for 80 percent of this pollination.
-sorry for the rant!
Laura Mercier Honey Baths. Scrumptious!
Pity those bees.
I'm not surprised that one day bees will be breed like chicken. Confined in a small space like a green house just to make sure they can still supply us with honey.
When things started to be like that, will be in big trouble with mother nature.