Manuka Honey Health Benefits

When it comes to considering the health benefits of taking Manuka honey, there are two important points to first note.

1. All sellers of Manuka honey, including ourselves, are not doctors or medical professionals, merely having knowledge (to differing degrees) of the product, not being experts in peoples health conditions. If you do have a particular medical or health issue, then you should get advice for that condition from your regular medical professional.

2. Not all Manuka honey products being sold are the same. There is a hydrogen peroxide based activity that is common to al types of honey. Some brands are misleadingly referencing this activity with their test results. The reputation and supporting evidence of Manuka honey is based on a special, extra, non-peroxide based activity. They are two different properties. The best assurance of getting the product you are expecting is with a jar that contains the UMF® quality mark on its label, along with a currently valid license number. The UMF® certification has measured specifically the unique extra non-peroxide activity that relates to the known benefits of this honey.

The main benefits from taking this special food relate to the unique additional antibacterial properties (in UMF® certified jars) that are stable and remain during storage of the jars and when actually using this honey.

While all types of honey can provide some benefits, with UMF® Manuka honey (or approved medical grade products) you are getting additional unique properties to that many users report support their health.


•    Antibacterial properties - unique extra ones not found in regular honey
•    Unique healthy phenolic antioxidants
•    Helps you support a healthy digestive system
•    Soothing properties (many users say it helps them with coughs and sore throats)
•    It is still a natural food - you are not adding anything artificial to your body
•    Research supports sterilised medical grade manuka honey in wound use

UMF^® certified Manuka Honey is independent (and internationally verifiable) proof of the unique additional antibacterial properties of a batch of Manuka, unlike jars that state a number without a UMF logo, for example ‘Active 5’.

Read more about Manuka Honey Health Benefits here.

For those who may be wanting help with their diets or any other aspects of nutrition - then how do you go about finding a suitably qualified nutritionist?

Thankfully - for those of you in the UK anyway - the people at Nutritionist Resource can help.

www.nutritionist-resource.org.uk

The is a search box on their main page where you just enter your postcode, and they will show you a list of qualified nutritionists in your area, along with a few bio and contact details of them.

There is also a series of articles on different aspects of nutrition that you can browse through.

So if its something you would like some professional advice on, have a look to find the qualified people closest to you.

Helping You Spring Clean Without Chemicals

With the arrival (finally) of some lovely warm sunny weather here in the UK, you may be among those stirred into some spring cleaning.

However whether your a sprucing up inside or out, spare a thought for both the environment and your own health before going overboard on chemically laden cleaners and polishes. In many cases there is no need for them, with safer and non-toxic options readily available.

In the easiest and simplest way, this could be just using a damp cloth for dusting and wiping things rather than any bought spray. For tougher spots try a little old fashioned lemon juice.

Soda crystals are more readily available in many shops these days, and can be used to help clean many areas of the home, as well as a less toxic powder for clothes washing.

To replenish and restore your favourite pieces of furniture - here comes our own plug - then look to completely natural and non-toxic Beeplenish polishes. These beeswax furniture polishes give a loving shine back to your wooden or leather furniture, without soaking them in chemicals. The beeswax provides some natural nourishment into the wood or leather, while leaving a protective coating to help extend the life of your favourite things.

For your garden or outdoor furniture, there is the Beeplenish Weather Wax, designed to keep hardwood from cracking drying and oxidizing due to exposure to sun, temperature variations or moisture.

Great Manuka Honey Now Available in High Street Kensington

You can now get genuine quality Manuka honey - with the all important UMF® certification - in High Street Kensington in London.

The New Zealand Honey Shop has begun a partnership with the Pestle & Mortar Pharmacy, located at 213 Kensington High Street, to have some of our most popular products available in a 'mini store' within the pharmacy.

So whilst it won't stock our entire range, The New Zealand Honey Shop in Kensington will offer the core and most popular products. And as established experts in Manuka honey, we know that not all brands of manuka actually contain the special properties, hence we always advise people to look for the UMF® mark on the actual jars.

Starting off you will find a range of strengths of UMF manuka honey, along with the Pot of Gold Balms now available in our Kensington location, inside the pharmacy.

You can view a map of the location on our website here:
The New Zealand Honey Shop Kensington High Street

Affiliate scheme extended

If you are a fan of our products and are involved in internet marketing in some form, then this news is for you.

The New Zealand Honey Shop has extended its affiliate scheme. Up till now we have only operated are own direct program, where we've had the flexibility to customise and try to closely fit in with our affiliate partners. This direct program is continuing, and we are happy to work together with potential partners to match the most appropriate products or content assistance to their site.

However we also understand that many affiliates want to match different retailers to different appropriate parts of their site, and therefore prefer to work through network programs to do this.

We are pleased to say that we can now offer this route as well. The New Zealand Honey Shop affiliate program is now also available through the UK based Aflite network. This is free to join, with a quick and easy sign up.

As with our direct program, and our commitment to offering quality products with honest information, there is some vetting of new affiliates, and we will always reserve the right to stop working with a particular site. This is only to try and reduce the misleading information that some people to readily put out there around some of our products. Any reputable and ethical affiliate should understand this as reasonable.

If you are interested in a program involving the best quality products, then head across to our manuka honey affiliate program page (it does offer all of our catalog range) for more details on how to join.

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.