Platinum Award Winner!

PLATINUM AWARD WINNER!

OK, allow us a little song and dance :)

While it may still be fairly unknown overall, our range of Beeplenish Beeswax Polishes has been quietly going about impressing people who know a thing or two about natural non-toxic products.

We're pleased to say that Janey Lee Grace and her team have given the Beeplenish Finisher's Formula a Platinum Award in their 2012 awards edition. As someone who is regularly on BBC radio and in multiple magazines for her opinions and advice on the best and most appropriate natural products (plus a best selling author), we do appreciate that she is a trusted reference point in her recommendations. It is also nice to know that she and her team have directly tried products.

In Beeplenish's favour is that first and foremost it uses only natural and non-toxic ingredients, and unlike many other beeswax based polishes is not mixed in with turpentine or other options to get the production cost down. (which admittedly does affect its cost, but is definitely made from a quality first perspective).

A fancy trophy may not have been given out, but the Platinum Award badge is quite sufficient and appropriate. And although the awards are given to individual products, in this case the Finisher's Formular, we can assure you that all Beeplenish products are made to the same exacting ingredient and effectiveness quality.

Bigger Jars of High Strength Manuka Honey Now Available

The New Zealand Honey Shop is now also stocking the Natural Solutions brand of UMF® manuka honey.

And one of the benefits is that we can now cater to those of you who have asked us about larger sized jars of the higher strength honey. Natural Solutions have a 500g size in both UMF15+ and UMF18+ manuka honey, in addition to their 250g size jars.

 These are in stock and available now.

 There is a good story behind the source of Natural Solutions honey. It is harvested from the Manuka trees growing wild in the unpolluted East Cape of New Zealand, on Maori lands. So not only is it natural goodness, it is natural goodness from the edge of the edge of the world!

 See the 500g UMF18+ Manuka Honey here.

Visiting Burghley? then stop by the Green Pavillion

If you are visiting the Burghley Horse Trials at all over the next few days, then take the chance to visit the new Green Pavillion set up this year. Showcasing a wide range of green and eco-friendly products.

Stop by the My Green Lifestyle stand within it, where you will have the chance to try the Beeplenish Beeswax Shoe Polish. There will also be some sample pots of some of the Beeplenish furniture polish among the goodie bags available at for a nominal amount from the stand.

Quality eco friendly products from other suppliers will also be on display for you to find out more.

And with several of the recent Olympic competitors competing at the event, we expect any visit to Burghley this year will be an enjoyable one.

Lavender Furniture Polish Now Available

The Beeplenish Natural Beeswax Furniture Polish with Pure Lavender has just been added to our range, and is now available to order.

Complementing the Orange and Lemon option already available, you can now choose between the two, whether you prefer a more citrus scent from the Orange and Lemon, or the Pure Lavender.

Simple, effective, and solvent free. Beeplenish not only provides a fantastic polish but actually cares and protects your favourite wooden furniture, and provides the beautiful lingering fragrance of pure lavender.

On furniture beeswax naturally puts a barrier coat to protect and repel water. It can be used over top of the existing finish, boosting its appearance.

Beeplenish is easy to apply, no hard buffing required, just apply along the the grain of the wood and wipe.

No solvents or turps, no neurotoxic petroleum by-products, no artificial fragrances.

Just a 100% natural, yet highly effective, superior polish.

Cardiff Metropolitan University Shows More Evidence of Medical Manuka Honey's Effectiveness For Wounds

OK, so this is not quite new news - it did come out at the end of January / start of February. Just we've been busy on other things and not posted on this blog since then.

It does however provide another example of why you need to be very careful in what you read in the media, and how lazy and / or poor journalists can be in not reporting important aspects of a story.

In this case, the researchers at Cardiff Metropolitan University made it quite clear that their work related to proper medical grade manuka honey, and plainly stated that it was important that people do use a correct medical grade manuka honey if they are going going to apply it to wounds.

Unfortunately very few media reports included that point, and only generically mentioned manuka honey. Even a doctor who posted on his blog about the research, and has a good history of finding holes and limitations in other published research made this same error in this case.

It is not only very poor but for this situation potentially dangerous too. There is a significant enough problem of substandard honey, and both misleadingly and falsely labelled product widely being sold in the UK and other countries. The poor reporting will lead to people trying to use low quality and inappropriate honey on their wounds in the false expectation it will help. Some jars that haven't undergone sufficient filtration could even contain things that could be harmful to a wound.

It is a pity because this newly published research from Cardiff is very promising in showing how approved medical grade manuka honey has been effective against another bacteria common in wounds, but also works when biofilms are present - something that is common in hard to heal wounds.

Rather than trying to paraphrase too much here, is better just to point you a decent summary of this new research:
Cardiff Metropolitan University research shows promise of medical manuka honey for wounds

Great examples of approved products (eg with a medical devices license) for wounds are the ManukaCare with 100% medical grade honey or the Medihoney Apinate manuka honey dressings.

Beeplenish Beeswax Polishes Now Available

New Year - Great New Products.

We are very happy to say that our first stock of the new Beeplenish range is now here and available.

100% Natural, non toxic, safe for your home and family. Beeplenish is a range of natural beeswax polishes and conditioners.

Replenish your favourite things.

The Natural Beeswax Furniture Polish is ideal for wooden furniture, and the Beeplenish Finisher's Formular is a perfect choice for restoring antiques, recently sanded raw wood surfaces, and wooden crafts. It is food safe, and without any nasty or highly toxic synthetic chemicals.

There are also specific products for leather- a leather polish and a leather preserver.

The waxes come in clear recyclable containers, and every ingredient is renewable, biodegradable and earth-friendly.

Take care of your favourite things effectively and naturally.

Take a closer look at the new Beeplenish waxes now.

Beeplenish Beeswax Polishes Coming

We have an entirely new product range coming soon - Beeplenish - natural beeswax based polishes and conditioners.

With products best suited for wooden furniture, leather, shoes and boots, and antiques and crafters, there are quality natural products that help you take care of things in your home.

As part of our launch of them, we will have a few small sample pots to give away in order to gain some local user feedback. If you have a UK address, and have a favourite table, chair, or other piece of furniture that could do with some replenishing care, then send us a quick email via the 'contact us' form on our website (www.newzealandhoneyshop.co.uk) with 'Beeplenish' in the subject, and we'll send out to the first few replies a free sample pot of the Beeplenish as soon as it arrives.

If you are into wood turning, then equally as good as one of the items works as a very good and non-toxic finisher for wood turning projects.