Beauty, Health and Living

My beauty product review for today is from The Savanna Bee Company.

mint-julep-lotion2-ozPhoto from My Bathouse, on sale for $2.50 for 2 oz bottle.

I really like this body lotion as it goes on very nice.  It is lightweight in texture.  The gentle moisturizer combines beeswax and royal jelly with peach kernel, pecan and sweet almond oil. All of which are quality ingredients used in skincare.

The lotion is rich with antioxidants and infused with a natural mint julep fragrance.  It is meant to be used on all skin types. 8 oz bottle retails for $12.99.  But I have a small 2 oz bottle (as seen in pictured) that is perfect for travel.

The lotion I have from The Savanna Bee Company is “Mint Julep”.  Peppermint is my all time favorite scent (as well as herb).  It is the first scent I go to in the summer time.  I also like to use peppermint oil when I feel a headache coming. Most of the time it works, otherwise I have to reach for other pain reliever pills.

Ted Dennard is the founder of The Savannah Bee Company based out of Georgia.  They sell mostly high quality honey, such as Tupelo honey.  He’s been in business since 2002 and is still growing strong.  His company may not be as well known as Burt’s Bee, but it seem he has found his true calling in life.  Or at least with the bees that have provided him with so much more than great honey.  As for what he does, Ted said, “I just love it.  I can’t imagine doing anything else.”


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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (published in 1962) was mandatory reading for our ecology 101 class.  Even thought I’ve read that book a long time ago, the book has always left a big impact on me.

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Rowan Jacobsen, an environmental writer living in Vermont wrote Fruitless Fall in 2008.  He quotes Rachel Carson’s book about a  fruitless fall where “there was no pollination and there would be no fruit.”  Not a very nice prediction of the state of our planet.

Jacobsen investigates the reason why the bees have been disappearing.  The book is well written and easy to follow.  It’s more like having a good conversation with a friend over a cup of coffee.  Every chapter takes you to another new trail to follow.  From the blueberry farms in Maine to the blossoming almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley of California.

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