Mama-2-Bee Line
All Mama-2-Bee products are created with Mama and Baby in mind! Using nourishing botanicals, we build and create all natural products to support your pregnancy, postpartum and new baby needs! Each of our products contains at least one bee product, hence the name! Bees are the immune boosters of the world and their by-products are immune boosting, antibacterial and if sourced locally can provide an unbeatable natural antihistamine for you and for your little one!
Health Benefits of Bee Products
Raw Honey
What Is It?
Everyone knows the characteristic sweet golden taste of honey and it’s one of my favourite natural remedies. Honey is produced when bees consume plant nectar and mix it with various enzymes. They then regurgitate this partly digested substance, now honey, and store it in their hive for a quick source of energy.
Health Benefits
Honey has antimicrobial, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and immune-boosting properties. It can soothe a sore throat and help fight the common cold, address or prevent seasonal allergies, as well as reduce your risk of H. pylori, a bacteria that attacks the stomach lining and can lead to ulcers. Not only is honey a great natural sweetener and good alternative to white sugar, it is a great remedy for burns. Honey can be directly applied to burns to prevent blistering and speed healing.
As an added bonus, honey is one of the few foods in the world that will never spoil.
How to Use It: Add raw honey to elixirs, smoothies, teas, marinades and sauces, baking, or have a little bit right off the spoon. Apply it straight to the skin for burns or wounds.
Bee Pollen
What Is It?
Pollen is basically the sperm of the plant world. Yes, you read correctly. Bees collect it on their hind legs and bring it back to the hive, where it serves as food for the bees – they use it as their primary protein source.
Health Benefits
Bee pollen is a very nutrient-dense bee product, packed with easily digestible protein, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, carbohydrates and fatty acids – it has most of the factors we need to thrive. It’s a real powerhouse! Pollen has anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial and anti-cancer properties, plus it helps heal wounds and protects the heart by lowering the amount of fats in the blood. Athletes have also used bee pollen in their training as it’s so nutrient-rich.
How to Use It: Add to elixirs and smoothies, sprinkle on top of oatmeal, dairy-free yogurt, granola or toast with nut butter.
Beeswax
What Is It?
Worker bees have wax glands that secrete beeswax used to make honeycombs in the hive. Bees fly roughly 6 times around the earth to yield one pound of beeswax.
Health Benefits
Beeswax is antimicrobial and is very soothing to the skin.
How to Use It: Beeswax can be used externally mixed with olive oil, herbs, or essential oils to make salves. It’s commonly used to make beauty care products, candles (a clean-burning alternative to toxic paraffin candles), re-usable food wrap (a good plastic alternative!) and it’s used in natural wood treatments and for sealing cracks.
Propolis
What Is It?
Propolis is a resin that trees exude to heal and repair damage, and prevent disease. Bees collect this resin to patch up the hive – it’s referred to as ‘bee glue’. They also use it as an antibiotic, antifungal, and antibacterial to keep viruses, bacteria, and infections out of the hive.
Health Benefits
Raw propolis has about 300 compounds. It’s packed with anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, antiviral and anti-cancer properties, plus it aids with wound healing and helps to modulate the immune system. It’s been used to inhibit gastrointestinal infections, vaginal infections and candida, prevent oral diseases and heal dental wounds, and promote skin health. Propolis works wonders in our bodies, fighting sickness and boosting the immune system.
How to Use It: You can find propolis as a spray or tincture. Some brands of honey will also have propolis in them.
Royal Jelly
What Is It?
Royal jelly is a white jelly made by the worker bees exclusively for the queen. The consumption of royal jelly is the only difference between the queen bee who lays over 2000 eggs in a single day and a worker bee. The queen bee’s life-span is about 4–5 years whereas the worker bees live about 3 months or less. Does that mean diet is more important than genes? I’ll let you decide…
Health Benefits
Like other bee products, royal jelly has incredible anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, antimicrobial and immunomodulating properties. It has some additional benefits, though – it has anti-aging properties, extending lifespan and boosting collagen production in the skin. It helps to protect the brain from aging too, stimulating the brain, improving mental health and preventing neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
How to Use It: You can find royal jelly as a health supplement, or you can find it fresh. Some brands of honey will have royal jelly mixed into them.