Honey Sticks Beeswax Crayons are here!

Just in time for Christmas, we are very happy to announce our latest product edition that would make a great gift for children of all creative levels.

Beeswax Crayons. Yes, Honey Sticks are non-toxic crayons made form 100% natural beeswax, with non-toxic pigments.

Created by a nursery teacher, the ergonomic and chubby design of Honey Sticks makes these crayons much harder to break, meaning they do last longer than many other ones.

With a delicious honey scent coming from the beeswax used, these are crayons handmade from environmentally sustainable resources.

There are 12 different colours in each pack, enough to keep budding artists occupied for many hours.

A fantastic gift or stocking filler for Christmas.

Honey Sticks crayons are available now in the UK / Europe, currently exclusively from The New Zealand Honey Shop, although we hope to have them at other retailers later.

Olive Leaf Complex Special

As the cold and flu season arrives, boost your body's protection with something 400% stronger than vitamin C.

Comvita's Olive Leaf Complex - special because it comes from fresh olive leaves - offers 400% more antioxidant activity than vitamin C.

As an early winter special, we've currently got promotions running on both the 500ml plain Olive Leaf Complex and the Olive Leaf Complex Capsules.

In both cases, with each bottle bought you get a free Oral Spray with it. Specially formulated to help maintain oral health and hygiene, the Olive Leaf Oral Spray helps dry throats and also to freshen your breath.

With limited stock available, order your Comvita Olive Leaf Complex now.

Preparing for Winter

The weather recently has been noticeably cooler, and the nights getting shorter. While hopefully we will get a bit of an indian summer along soon, it is also time to start thinking about winter wellness and trying to prevent those coughs and colds.

Exercise is a good start for keeping your body in good shape, so if you're an outside exercise person make good use of the remaining warmish weather and available light. Maybe making some plans for the winter if you're not already a member of a gym or equivalent would be good too.

While both our UMF manuka honey and propolis ranges have very good properties for dealing with coughs and colds, and sore throats, there is another product that is also very good at building your immune system and helping prevent winter ills.

What has 400% more antioxidant activity than vitamin C ? - Comvita Olive Leaf Complex

It's different because it is made from fresh olive leaves. After all we all appreciate that a glass of fresh orange juice is better than one reconstituted from dried powder.

With a choice of flavours of plain, peppermint, or berry for children. It also comes in capsules for those that prefer.

Olive leaf has been shown to have antiviral and antifungal abilities, and although many people benefit from it all year round, its winter wellness function makes it particularly useful during this time of year.

Another hospital starts using Medihoney dressings for wounds

In the USA, another hospital, this time in Arizona has started to use the specialist medical grade honey dressings from Medihoney.

The Carondelet St. Mary's Hospital Wound Healing Center is now making use of these unique dressings that contain medical grade leptospermum (manuka) honey, which contains additional antibacterial properties over and above what is found in other honeys. (Batches of this honey have to pass certain tests to be proved to have sufficient of these additional antibacterial properties).

These dressings have had approval from the FDA for chronic and acute wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers and pressure ulcers.

From the Kold news report (see it here: http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=12921333 ):

"Dressings made from leptospermum honey offer a two-fold benefit in wound healing: they help decrease bacteria and keep the wound moist to promote healing while also aiding our ability to remove unhealthy tissue around the wound," said Dr. Rhonda Quick, M.D., a vascular surgeon who serves as the Medical Director for St. Mary's Hospital Wound Healing Center.

The effects of the dressing can last up to a week, reducing the need for more frequent visits to the hospital.

These same Medihoney Dressings are available from our website and shop. They can be cut to size to fit smaller wounds where required (they come in a 10cm x 10cm size).

Extra Strength Propolis Oral Spray

Not only do we now have the Propolis Throat Spray back in stock in revamped packaging, but there is also now an extra strength option as well.

Comvita's new Extra Strength Propolis Oral Spray is perfect for those extra pesky irritated throats.

This contains 20% of UMF10+ manuka honey, in a special blend with purified New Zealand propolis and essential oils formulated for oral health and hygiene.

Flavoured with peppermint, aniseed, myrrh and menthol.

The bottle is small enough and light enough to easily carry in a purse, small bag, or keep in a desk drawer or car.

Works well as a breath freshener on the go too.

Dedicated Pot of Gold Balm site for UK/Europe

For those wanting to learn more about the Pot of Gold Balms (Skin Balm and Baby Balm), there is now a new dedicated website for the UK and Europe available.

www.potofgoldbalm.co.uk is now operational, providing greater in depth information on the ingredients and uses for Pot of Gold, as well as a longer list of testimonials. Although mainly a copy of their original NZ site, over time it will be updated with any Europe specific information.

It is a great resource to gain some more in depth knowledge of these products (which continue to create tremendous feedback from users).

For ordering you will be sent direct to The New Zealand Honey Shop website where we can quickly process and send out orders.

Special 2 for 1 on Bee Pollen Capsules

Bee Pollen is known as once of the most complete foods there is, containing most of the nutrients, vitamins, minerals, amino acids etc that the body needs. It is nature's multi vitamin. People take it for an energy boost, or to supplement their nutrition.

Now for the month of May we have a promotion on the Comvita Bee Pollen Capsules - buy one get one free, or 2 for the price of 1 if you want to put it that way. Applicable to both the 100 capsules and 200 capsules sizes.

With long use by dates - going into 2012 - this is a great opportunity to stock up.

Simple place an order via our website, and as you checkout it will show you the adjusted quantities and price to give you this special offer.

Order your bee pollen capsules here.