Honey Girl Organics

Three New Honey Girl Products for Valentine's Day!

2008-02-14T02:24:00.000-08:00

Now, from Honey Girl Organics, a facial cleanser and night cream to visibly smooth and renew skin, helping to restore skin to its youthful look and vitality.

For a refreshing and revitalizing morning routine, use our Facial Cleanser followed by Honey Girl Organics' exquisite and delicate Face & Eye crème.

For evening routine, use the Honey Girl Organics facial cleanser followed by the night crème. Immediately, skin feels more comfortable, softer and hydrated. The next morning, skin looks healthier and revitalized, imperfections look diminished and skin looks younger and the appearance of fine lines is reduced. Your skin wakes up looking well-rested, more luminous.

Finally, a personal lubricant that you can have confidence in. Honey Girl Organics' personal lubricant is made from all natural, ingredients. It smoothes your skin, while enhancing sensual intimacy. This lubricant is completely free of parabens, glycerin, fragrances, hormones, silicones and petroleum products, so you can feel safe about using it generously.

Facial Cleanser - (4oz) This botanically based facial cleanser gently washes away impurities and make-up while moisturizing and leaving your skin feeling smoother and refreshed. It stimulates your skin's vitality with an energizing complex of vitamins and minerals, while helping to 'recharge' cells deep within the surface of the skin, revealing revitalized, radiantly healthy looking skin.

Night Crème: (1 oz.) An extra rich blend of nature's finest ingredients. This crème leaves skin hydrated, helping to reveal a flawless skin tone and exceptional luminosity. Wake up to fresher and younger looking skin.

Personal Lubricant: (2oz.) This organic and safe personal lubricant softens and smoothes skin, while enhancing sensual intimacy. It is safe to use internally, and helps relieve dryness. It intensifies sensation and has excellent staying power, it is created from pure and organic ingredients, completely free of parabens, glycerin, fragrances, hormones, silicones and petroleum products and it feels good, tastes good and is safe to ingest!

Hope you enjoy our new products and have a great Valentine's Day!

Historical Uses of Olive Oil

2008-02-05T21:42:00.000-08:00

Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil is one of the prime ingredients in all Honey Girl Organics skin care products; however olive oil has been used for thousands of years because of its unique properties. In this post I’ll give a brief overview of the historical uses of olive oil which range from cooking oil to religious rituals to an ingredient in soap, not to mention ancient forms of skin care.

Oil was first extracted from olives over 5,000 years ago in western Asia, especially the eastern Mediterranean and many believe widespread cultivation of olives began on the Greek isle of Crete. Egyptians imported the oil from Crete thousands of years ago and by the height of the Roman Empire it had spread throughout the entire Mediterranean.

Olive trees flourished in the rocky Greek countryside that was hostile to most types of trees. Their ability to thrive in harsh conditions led to Italian folklore dictating that the five ingredients for ideal olive trees were “sun, stone, drought, silence and solitude.” It was believed that the incredible vitality of olive trees was conferred to people through their oil, which was thought to enhance a person’s strength and youth.

Olive oil was very common in ancient Greek and Roman cuisine and was used to fuel sacred lamps. In the ancient city of Sparta athletes were known to rub themselves with olive oil to accentuate the body’s natural beauty, a practice which spread throughout Hellenic society and was often seen at the Olympic games of ancient Greece. Olive trees were so valued that those who cut one down were often condemned to death or exile as punishment. According to legend, the famous Greek city of Athens was so named because ancient Athenians considered olive oil (the offering of the goddess Athena) more essential than water (the offering of the god Poseidon). Olive oil was so important to ancient Greek society that Homer (the world’s very first novelist) famously referred to it as “liquid gold."

Many religious rituals were performed using olive oil. The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, for example, celebrates the miracle of a small amount of olive oil lasting eight nights, seven more than was expected. The Catholic Church also uses olive oil to bless and strengthen those preparing for Baptism. The Qur’an, the Islamic holy book, actually refers to the olive as a sacred plant.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil, means that the olive oil was obtained by pressing the olives, rather than from chemical means and is thus most like the olive oil used by ancient peoples. Extra Virgin Olive Oil has less than 1% acidity and is the healthiest available. In Honey Girl Organics skin care products we use only organic extra virgin olive oil, the best kind you can find.

Well I hope you enjoyed that look at the history of Olive Oil, I plan to be looking into the history of Honey Girl’s other products too, so check back soon!

Happy Holidays

2007-12-24T17:24:00.001-08:00

A quick post today: just wishing everyone a very happy holiday season from us here at Honey Girl Organics, and here's hoping that the new year is even better than the last!

Japanese website up!

2007-10-02T21:30:00.001-07:00

Honey Girl's Japanese website is up and running! This is our first website for a foreign country so we're all very excited about sending our products all over the world.

If you happen to be from the land of the rising sun, or know anyone there, the url is http://www.windsfromhawaii.jp/honeygirl/index.html.

Honey Girl in the News!

2007-09-02T20:10:00.001-07:00

Honey Girl Organics is becoming ever more popular as a healthy organic substitute for the common skin care products on the market. Today we're adding links to the news articles about us on the internet, in case you want a different take on our products.

The Magazine Hana Hou and the newspaper the Honolulu Star Bulletin both had great articles about our products, as did the blog at Girl's Life.

Honey Girl was also mentioned in articles on LA's the Place and Curious Parents, as well as in the March 2007 edition of the magazine Body Beautiful.

You can find a constantly updated list of links to articles about our products on the left side of the page.

Skin Creme Ingrediants

2007-08-22T18:20:00.001-07:00

Honey is made by bees through a process of concentrating plant nectars. The bees may travel as far as 55,000 miles and visit more than two million flowers to gather enough nectar to make just a pound of honey. The honey bee must consume 8-10 pounds of honey to produce one pound of wax.

Honey has been known for centuries to heal wounds and treat infection, as well as being antioxidant, antibiotic and antiviral. Honey is a humectant (it attracts and retains moisture), and acts as an anti-irritant. This makes honey a natural fit in our moisturizingproducts and suitable for sensitive skin.

Cleopatra of Egypt was one of the more famous people in history to use honey for its skin-enhancing properties. She regularly took honey and milk baths to maintain her youthful look.
Six medical journal articles over the past three years have also described the antibiotic properties of honey. A physician at the medical college in Maharashtra, India recently explored the use of honey-soaked gauze to treat burn patients. The 40 patients treated with honey healed in about half the time - and with half the scar tissue - compared with patients treated by other means. (Subrahmanyam M, Burns, Aug.1994; 20:331-3).

Beeswax is a nutrient-rich substance secreted by bees in order to make honeycomb. In our products, it softens your skin and creates a long-lasting protective coating against the elements. It also is a naturally nourishing moisturizer as well as being anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiallergenic and a germicidal antioxidant.

Beeswax obtains its golden color from the propolis and bee pollen inside, both also known for their incredible health benefits. The beeswax helps lock in your skin’s own moisture, nourishes skin cells and creates a barrier against the destruction caused by our environment.
Beeswax is one of the oldest and purest natural waxes. For hundreds of years, it has been used in crèmes, lipsticks and other cosmetics. It is also edible in small amounts and has been used to coat foods and medicines.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil has been used for thousands of years by Mediterranean women to give them beautiful skin. It is rich in antioxidants and has excellent softening and lubricating qualities. The cultivation of olive trees has been traced as far back as 5,000 years ago (in Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria, etc.). Hippocrates advocated the use of olive oil as a muscular massage for the athletes who competed in the original Olympic Games. The Romans loved the olive and its oil. It was used as a cleanser and skin conditioner, as well as in sacred lamps and for medical and culinary purposes. Olive oil has been used to protect and smooth the skin, especially during and after exposure to the sun. There are reports that Marilyn Monroe, despite having access to some of the most expensive preparations Hollywood could provide, preferred olive oil.

Bee Pollen is flower pollen collected by the bees and used as their primary food source and the building material for future bees. It is rich in many nutrients and highly assimilable to humans. Made of water, carbohydrates and proteins, pollen contains vitamins, minerals, amino acids, phytochemicals, carotenoids, flavonoids and phytosterols.

Royal Jelly is a thick, milky substance produced by worker bees to feed the queen bee. They mix honey and bee pollen with enzymes in the glands of their throats to produce the royal jelly. Royal Jelly is believed to be a useful supplement because of the queen bee’ssuperior size, strength, stamina and longevity compared to other bees.

Royal Jelly may be one of nature’s best kept secrets. It consists of a blend of proteins, vitamins, minerals and amino acids. The list of health benefits attributed to Royal Jelly is long: assisting the regeneration of human body cells, reversing the aging process, healing wounds and skin disorders, promoting sexual rejuvenation, stimulating the immune system, providing antibacterial and anti-inflammatory action, and protecting the skin from dehydration.

Propolis is a resin-like paste gathered by the bees from the buds and bark from some trees. They bring it back to the hive in their pollen baskets and mix it with wax to seal the hive entrances. Its antiseptic properties ensure a germ free environment. Propolisis rich in nutrition and natural antibody properties that have recently been rediscovered by modern scientists in creating effective cures. Hippocrates (considered to be the father of medicine) prescribed the use of propolis to help heal sores and ulcers, and the ancient Egyptians looked upon the bees and their propolis as the source of eternal health and life.

Our Philosophy

2007-08-22T18:15:00.000-07:00

At Honey Girl Organics, we believe that, when it comes to creating and maintaining life, Nature has a vast advantage over anything humans can devise. After all, She has been testing her inventions for billions of years, packing potency and complexity into the simplest, most efficient of packages. So where better to find the ingredients for a healthy, nourishing skin cream?

Concentrated Nutrition
By using our skin care products, you can take advantage of nature’s best and most concentrated nutrition. The flower of a plant is its most vital part--the seed of life–so the most nutrition is there. Our bees collect nectar and pollen from a vast variety of flowers and concentrate the nectar and pollen into honey, beeswax, and royal jelly. In its natural and raw state, honey provides bees with all the nutrition they need. Royal jelly is a super nutrition and beeswax has natural antibiotics and agents good for the skin. We intentionally keep our products to their most simple and basic forms so that the body will recognize them as nutrition.

Edible Ingredients
The skin is a porous, breathing organ that takes in nutrition and eliminates toxins. All of our products are made from edible ingredients, because we believe that it’s best to put on your body only what you’d be willing to put into your body.

These days it’s very popular to put patches on your skin to help you stop smoking, absorb birth control hormones, pain killers, and so on. It’s logical to conclude that since the chemicals on these patches get absorbed into your blood stream and affect your entire body, then so must the artificial colors, chemicals, petroleum products, preservatives and additives that are found in so many of today's skin care products. Would you be willing to consume those ingredients?

All of our products are made from a simple blend of all-natural ingredients - organic extra virgin olive oil, organic honey, organic beeswax, organic propolis, organic pollen, organic royal jelly, and purified water. They are not only edible but have been shown to have highly nourishing, healing and healthful benefits.

Healthy skin is the sign of a healthy body, so to have truly healthy skin, we recommend healthy lifestyle choices. By using our skin care products, you can take advantage of nature's finest and most concentrated nutrition.

Honey Girl Products

2007-08-22T01:38:00.000-07:00

For our second post it seems appropriate to start with a basic introduction to our products. Honey Girl Organics crèmes are all natural skin care products made with absolutely no chemicals or artificial preservatives. They are designed to nourish and hydrate your skin, leaving it feeling soft and smooth, as well as helping skin exposed to excess sun, wind, cold, or dry conditions, replenishing the natural oils of your skin and hair.

The Face & Eye Crème is good for reducing fine lines on your face and around your eyes. It brings out your natural radiance by hydrating and nourishing your skin.

The Body Crème makes your skin feel softer, smoother and more hydrated. It’s a unique Crème that provides lasting protection and is also great for dry hair.

Our Peppermint and Lavender Foot Balm helps nourish and soothe your tired feet, and is also excellent for dry or cracked skin.

Our Cuticle Crème soothes, protects and moisturizes your cuticles as well as making your nails healthier and stronger.

Our unique Super Skin Food has a healing formula using Royal Jelly and Vitamin E that works amazingly well at healing dry, cracked, rough or abraded skin and is amazing for areas like elbows and knees.

The Lip Balm is excellent for dry or chapped lips and protects them from dehydration.

You can find all of our products online at honeygirlorganics.com or click on “products" on the sidebar of this blog.

Welcome to the Honey Girl Organics Weblog!

2007-08-11T01:00:00.001-07:00

This is the first post of the Honey Girl Organics weblog. Honey Girl Organics is completely organic skin care handcrafted in Hawaii with nature's best and most nutritious ingredients: honey, beeswax, propolis, and extra virgin olive oil. If you are interested, please visit our website at www.honeygirlorganics.com. We will be updating this blog with new posts shortly so be sure to check back soon!

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" -Leonardo Da Vinci