Royal Jelly Body Butter
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What are the Benefits of Royal Jelly?
Royal jelly is considered the most precious product of the beehive.  It is a complex blend of lipids, proteins, vitamins, and amino acids - often taken as a supplement.  These nutrients deeply moisturize dry skin and work to improve elasticity - which ultimately helps protect skin’s own natural moisture barriers from dehydration and inflammation.
What exactly is it?Â
Royal jelly earns its name being the exclusive diet of the queen bee. This food source is a vitamin-rich, creamy substance produced by worker bees mostly from pollen, enzymes, and some honey.
All baby bees are fed small amounts of royal jelly at birth. However, the future queen bee is fed this substance exclusively and in high quantities her entire life. The queen bee, who can lay up to 2,000 eggs/day, will grow to be much larger than the worker bees. Because of Royal jelly, the Queen Bee can live for six years. While worker bees live around six weeks during the summer.
How do we collect Royal Jelly?
Royal jelly is harvested by encouraging worker bees to produce queen bees using movable frame hives. Beekeepers collect royal jelly from each individual queen honeycomb cell after about four days.