Exclusive Brand Highlight: Queen Bee Luxury Soap Company
Updated: Mar 2
The soap making originally started with the husband-and-wife team taking a soap making class in at a local community center after experiencing several lost pregnancies. The need to get out of the house and make something beautiful was the original motivation.
ABOUT QUEEN BEE LUXURY SOAP COMPANY
The soap making originally started with the husband-and-wife team taking a soap making class in at a local community center after experiencing several lost pregnancies. The need to get out of the house and make something beautiful was the original motivation. Tim was instantly hooked and soon began making Beeswax & Raw Honey Soaps in all sorts of different styles and experimenting until this new craft had been perfected during the Covid-19 pandemic.
While Leah's interest turned to Sugar Scrubs & Whipped Body Butters, which beeswax made even better. It wasn't long before Salons and Beauticians were calling for tubs of both and requesting more colors and aromas for high end client services.
A series of other products popped up because of requests or evening tinkering: Hair Repair Serum, Solid Beeswax Lotion Bars and Honey Infused Bath Salts. These have also been loved by our customers. The mission of elevating the honeybee into everyone's daily routine through the creation of amazing sustainable beauty care products continues to drive new product development.
A power couple that are on a mission to show how nature and the honeybee can transform ordinary skin care products and connect you closer to the ecosystem. They continue to advocate on behalf of honeybees and small retailers. Invited to Capitol Hill to discuss with lawmakers the challenges that small retailers and veteran owned businesses are dealing with currently as they continue to invest and grow in elevating the honeybee into people's daily routine.
FEATURED ON QVC & HSN
Hive & Honeybee was selected for the Small Business Spotlight, a National Retail Federation Foundation Partnership with the Qurate Group. The Qurate Group owns QVC, the Home Shopping Network and Zulily which all featured Hive & Honeybee on My 25th as a Veteran Owned Business.
Following the 9pm segment on QVC, the viewers just flooded our website. Hive & Honeybee had over 600 visitors in the span of a few minutes! It was more traffic then our website had seen since we launched in the span of several hours following the the last segment on HSN at 11pm that night. We had over 500 people sign up for our newsletter, The Hive so they can keep up with the Buzz! We had well over a 100 orders over the next several days from the viewers that saw our segments on both QVC and HSN. We continue to have repeat customers come back for more amazing products we have added.
BEESWAX & RAW HONEY SOAPS
THE POWER OF BEESWAX & RAW HONEY
There are typically two complaints that people have with handcrafted soap that they have tried in the past: It doesn't last as long and it has lack luster bubbles. This isn't true for all handcrafted soap, but they have found that is the overwhelming reason for customers to hesitate to try different handcrafted soaps. This is why Beeswax & Raw Honey together to address both of these concerns. Beeswax, while it very challenging to use in the soap making process, when used it makes the soap bar harder which means it last longer. Raw Honey causes rich luxury bubbles in these soap recipes which their customer love. Check out how many amazing, natural Beeswax & Raw Honey Soaps they make. They have core offerings and are always looking for bring new aromas throughout the year.
PERSERVATIVE FREE WHIPPED BEESWAX BODY BUTTERS
LIKE NO OTHER BODY BUTTER
These natural body butters with light natural color being provided by Brazilian Clays and Activated Charcoal are wonderful. Beeswax Whipped Body Butters are free of preservatives and can only be shipped from October through March because heat will cause them to fall during their travel to the destination.
Body Butters infuse rich moisture into dull-looking skin to promote healthy, smooth, and flawless skin. The true benefit and purpose of a body butter is too nourish your skin, most effective after a warm shower or bath. This also fight skin aging in a natural way. Body butters can be used all over the body, even on the face.
A natural product that you can work into your daily skin care routine. As you massage the body butter into your skin, you'll unlock the aroma for a sweet and luxurious experience.
BEESWAX EMULSIFIED SUGAR SCRUBS
BEESWAX MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE
Sugar scrubs brighten tired, dull-looking skin to promote healthy, smooth, and flawless skin. The true benefit and purpose of a sugar scrub is to incorporate into your shaving and tanning routine. Using a sugar scrub to exfoliate your body one to two times per week. As you massage the scrub into your skin, you'll unlock the aroma for a sweet and luxurious experience.
This also fight skin aging in a natural way. Another benefit of a sugar scrub is that it can be used all over the body, not the face. Emulsified Beeswax Sugar Scrub is a real break from the normal skin care routine. Vibrant, natural and invigorating it brings the benefits of beeswax, shea butter and sunflower oil directly to smooth skin to infuse rich moisture. This is truly fit for a Queen Bee.
HONEY INFUSED BATH SALTS
INFUSED HONEY WITHOUT ANY STICKINESS
Sprinkle some salts and flower petals into the warm water. Relax, close your eyes. Treat yourself to something incredible and better than anything you have tired before. Raw Honey, a sweet thing for your skin care routine, is dehydrated and turned into a powder so you get all of the benefit without any stickiness in your bath tub. Why should you try these amazing Honey Infused Bath Salts?
Soaking in a warm salt solution, even just once a week for 15-20 minutes, offers great benefits in terms of improving the skin barrier function, hydrating the skin, and decreasing inflammation. Studies even show that people suffering from skin issues, such as psoriasis or eczema, can improve their condition with regular salt bathing. The minerals found within a salty soak also work to promote more youthful, glowing skin from the inside out by purging impurities from the skin and balancing skin moisture levels.
Shipping in the summer heat or delivery being left in direct sunlight in the summer months can cause the Honey Infused Bath Salts to stick together, simply leave in doors and out of direct light and a couple of gentle shakes of the jar will break apart the salt that has fused together.
All of these and other great products from the bee hive can be found at www.hiveandhoneybee.com/shop.