SKN_RG Enzyme Kit

edwinas thursday

Once again, here we are buzzing about another wonderful bee product. As you know, we here at The Amazing Blog are passionate about bringing awareness to a growing issue in the UK; our native bee population is on the decline and that can be detrimental to our future generations. Therefore, we are always excited to bring to you products that are made with bees in mind that give your skin that sweet, honey love.b2 Performance Skinwear is a British company that merges Buddhist inspired apothecary with scientific research using ingredients from ‘Earth, Sea and Bee' realms all the while  staying paraben and toxin-free.

We were lucky to try the b2 Sknrg Enzyme Daily Essentials Trio Mid Kit and this wonderful kit includes three products: AHA & Enzyme Cleansing Melt, Enzyme & AHA Toner and M+Collagen Day Cream. The treatment has anti-wrinkle properties as well as helps reduce skin irregularities (like scarring, pigmentation and pore size) and can improve skin tone and texture without leaving your skin dry. Whether you are trying to minimise wrinkles or prevent them, the treatment works well at renewing your skin to give it a youthful and healthy appearance.

The creators of the b2 line, husband and wife duo, Robert and Deborah Scott along with their team of researchers created this product with all natural and organic ingredients such as antioxidant packed seaweed, fruit enzymes, Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHA). In order to ensure that their ingredients remain as organic and toxin-free, b2 follow organic farming standards when cultivating the plant extracts used in their products. The bee ingredients they use include seasoned honey, pollen and beeswax.  These ingredients are cultivated from the b2 apiaries housing various bees, but most importantly our native black honeybee.  b2  Sknrg  Enzyme  Daily  Essentials  Trio  Mid Kit is available here  for £39.50. Why not have your skin 'bee'  its very best and have all your friends buzzing about how you did it!

Therapi Honey Skincare

We welcome any beauty product that contains honey with open arms here at The Amazing Blog, so you can imagine our excitement when we came across the Therapi Honey Skincare range at Camexpo recently. Everything about the brand was inviting, the name, the packaging and the lovely team behind it.

The product design and packaging has a very luxurious look, with a beautiful, stylish blend of rose, white and a shimmering gold. The bottles and containers are just as elegant, and we would proudly display them in our bathroom for guests to see. Tanya Hawkes, the founder of Therapi, was a beekeeper for 25 years prior to creating this company, and learnt everything there was to know about the way honey can help skin imperfections. The Therapi team spent three years researching and developing the products, ensuring the healing, nourishing and moisturising properties were the best that they could be.

With a little help from the girls at Therapi Honey Skincare, I chose some things from the range which would be the most beneficial to my skin type. Tanya recommended the Ultra Radiance Cream, which has enriching benefits as it is filled with anti-oxidants and nutrients, ensuring skin looks radiant and beautiful. Something that stands out about this brand is how rich in smell and texture all their products are. This is especially true for the Radiance Cream. I found this cream perfect for night time use, and I could feel it working on my skin from the get go. It was a relief to wake up with moisturised skin, almost as if I’d had a facial whilst sleeping!

I will definitely be using Therapi in my daily routine from now on. The Hydrating Facial Toner was great too, I used this after my shower and it left my skin looking really refreshed and like the Ultra Radiance Cream, the Toner had a wonderful fragrance.

If you want to browse the range and get your hands on some of these brilliant, honey filled goodies then you can find them on the Therapi website. The Radiance Cream retails for £30, and the Toner is £25.

J.Friend and Co New Zealand Artisan Honey

We all have a bit of a sweet tooth here at The Amazing Blog and love to indulge in some sweet treats, and treats don’t come much sweeter than pure honey. So imagine our delight when we received a box full of jars of J.Friend and Co New Zealand Artisan Honey. These adorable jars turned up in a variety of  flavoured honeys, and we just couldn’t wait to get stuck in – after all when it comes to honey it’s all about getting sticky!

Thanks to the wide selection of J.Friend and Co, we were able to sample a variety of their different flavours, so there was no fear of us not receiving our honey fix. But my personal favourite has to be the White Clover, this creamy honey was deliciously fudgy and unlike any honey I’d tried before. It was so smooth with a much mellower sweet honey flavour, I could happily spoon it straight from the jar.

Each of the flavours we tried were completely unique, this is down to the various combinations of location, climate, soil and temperature giving them each an individual personality and taste. Who knew honey could be so diverse? What’s more is that each jar of honey comes with a little bit of information tracing it back to its source, vintage, region and even the name of the beekeeper, so you know exactly where your little jar of honey has come from. We think this is a lovely touch and actually makes your honey experience that little bit more special.

I also have to mention the fact that this honey is completely organic and environmentally friendly, another great reason why we love it. There are no chemicals used on the land where beehives are kept and no chemicals are used to treat the hives or during processing the honey. Their honey is also the first in the world to achieve carboNZero certification thanks to their low emissions. Turns out J.Friend and Co Honey is sweet in more ways than one.

New Zealand Artisan Honey is available to buy from their website, with prices starting from £4.32 for a 160g jar.

Get some honey into your routine with Bee Nature

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You may put Honey in your tea, or on a peanut butter sandwich, but have you ever considered its use for beauty products? Honey is an ingredient popping up in all kinds of new products on the market. Us girls at The Amazing Blogknow a few things about the benefits of honey on the skin, which is why we were very excited to try Bee Nature’s new Shower Milk and Body Lotion.

Bee Nature is a new 100% Belgian cosmetic company that specialise in ‘natural products with honey and plant extracts’. It was founded by Marine, who grew up with a chemist and pharmacist as parents, so it was natural that she would end up in the world of body products. Currently as small range, Bee Nature’s products are indulgent, delicious, and natural. Honey has been used since the dawn of time for many kinds of remedies, involving treating wounds. This is because it is a natural antiseptic, which means it is perfect for those who suffer from “problem skin” or have issues like acne and red patches.

First of all, I must mention the amazing scent. Good enough to eat! Because of the honey, it has quite an edible smell, but in the best way! The shower milk feels absolutely decadent on the skin and lathers nicely. It has lemon and verbena which makes it very moisturising and toning for the skin. The honey included in the formula means it is very soothing to the skin and packed full of antioxidants. The Body Milk Lotion is also incredibly moisturising, healing, and toning. This is credited to the inclusion of aloe juice, hyaluronic acid and chamomile oil in the formula.

Another wonderful thing about Bee Nature's products is that the packaging is very specially designed. It is eco friendly and perfect for storing in your bathroom as the seal is air tight. This means that your products will always be fresh and like new! If you are interested in seeing the whole range from Bee Nature or purchasing the lovely Shower Milk and Body Lotion, which retail at £7.83 and £9.41 respectively, visit the Bee Nature website.

New Zealand and Co.- Beech Forest Honeydew

 

I am sure we’ve all had those Mondays where you are just so exhausted from the weekend’s activities that you find it difficult to get through the day. You wake up feeling sluggish and in desperate need of a boost in order to keep going. We here at The Amazing Blog tend to turn to multiple cups of tea to give us the boost that we are looking for, however that is not always the best and most efficient thing to do. I have discovered something new to help give you that boost that you so desperately need after a long weekend. The New Zealand Honey Co. Beech Forest Honeydew is the perfect fix to help you perk up and get rid of that lethargic feeling early on in the work week. With a pre-biotic rating of 20+ this is the highest rated pre-biotic honey in the world. This honey helps to feed the good bacteria and help to neutralize the harmful toxins that cause you to feel so sluggish after a wild weekend with your friends. Not to mention, it helps to boost your immune system by increasing the absorption of nutrients’ and helping to prevent disease.

You can eat this honey in a variety of different ways, mixed into your food (like your morning porridge) or on its own. I chose to try this honey on it’s own before heading out to work in the morning. The honey itself has a very clean and refreshing flavour that is not too sweet at all, which is perfect for me since I don't have the biggest sweet tooth. After my commute to work I started to feel a little better than I did when I woke up this morning. My sluggish feeling was slowly starting to fade away and I started to feel like I could really start my day off right. I came into the office feeling refreshed and ready to start my week, although even with the daily spoonful of honey, I still could not give up my morning cup of tea.

You can purchase this all natural Beech Forest Honeydew honey on their website for £9.99 and it comes in both a jar or an easy to use squeezy bottle. All you need is a spoonful and that slow feeling will start to fade away and help you get ready for the long work week that is ahead.