What are the virtues of honey and other treasures of the hive?

Protecting bees is a topical issue: as well as being an essential link in maintaining biodiversity, beekeepers give us the gift of substances with unrivalled virtues, used for centuries for skin beauty. Here's how it works.

Honey, royal jelly, beeswax, propolis: the products of the beehive contain treasures with proven health benefits. It's no coincidence that the cosmetics industry uses them so frequently.

Both complex and marvellous, honey is the very image of what nature has to offer.

It is the treasure of bees, born of an alchemy between the nectar of foraged flowers and its transformation in the hive.

The Egyptians and Romans were already using it as a food remedy and as a beauty product to care for their skin. And with good reason: its wealth of active molecules gives it numerous properties!

Thanks to its high sugar content, honey has the ability to retain water in the skin, making it a real ally for dry, dehydrated skin. It's also rich in vitamins (particularly group B, which contributes to skin cell renewal), minerals, trace elements and antioxidants. This unique composition makes it an excellent ingredient for nourishing, repairing and preventing premature skin aging.

In short, the benefits of honey for the skin are numerous, making it a multi-faceted elixir to be incorporated without hesitation into your beauty routine.

Known since ancient times, beeswax is a 100% natural substance produced by young bees and used to build the cells of their nests. Like honey-based skincare products, there are many formulated with beeswax.

A complex blend of fatty esters and fatty acids, beeswax replenishes, nourishes and protects skin from external aggressors (wind, cold, etc.).

In addition to its many properties, beeswax is suitable for all skin types, especially dry and sensitive skin. And that's what makes it such an essential ingredient in our Super . Rêve de Miel® Repair Balm

Propolis is a precious product, made by the most experienced bees from plant resins harvested from buds. It's a rare commodity, since the yield from a single hive is only around ten to one hundred grams each year.

A defensive substance, it is used by bees as a mortar to fortify and protect the hive from external aggression. Its name comes from the ancient Greek word meaning "in front of the city".

A veritable treasure trove of nature, propolis has an extremely complex composition, comprising no fewer than 300 molecules... Known for thousands of years for its beneficial effects on health, it continues to arouse great interest for its soothing and skin-nourishing properties.

Unsurprisingly, it is present in our nourishing face balm . It is also very much in evidence in anti-ageing cosmetic formulations, thanks to its regenerative virtues.

A highly nutritious substance, royal jelly offers extraordinary longevity to the queen bee, who feeds exclusively on it throughout her life. In fact, she will live 50 times longer than worker bees thanks to this unique diet!

Like other hive products, royal jelly is rich in active molecules: amino acids, sugars, vitamins and essential fatty acids...

Its many properties are particularly beneficial for the skin. In addition to its regenerating and rebalancing action, royal jelly also helps moisturize mature skin.
What more could you ask for?