Sustainability is at the heart of what we do at Natural Little Bee. From sourcing the best quality ingredients from highly ethical suppliers, gathering native wildflowers, working with small scale high ethics local native bees, to growing our own soapwort at a local community garden and supporting what they do. We really try to do it the best we can. We avoid plastics at all costs. The bottle are all made from glass. Glass is not more sustainable than plastic at its first use, despite what a...

Bees have long been champions of our ecosystems, buzzing from flower to flower and powering the pollination that sustains global food systems. But just as invisible as their work has often been the role of women alongside them — tending hives, shaping communities, and driving both ecological stewardship and economic opportunity. This International Women’s Day, it’s worth taking a moment to honour the deep legacy of women in beekeeping — from ancient practices to global empowerment programmes...

Lets dive into the diversity of bees, why they are great and why some just might be even better than others. And, finally what the buzz is all about. First off, you may not know that there are over 270 species of bees in the UK. The sting in the tail is that there is only 1 species of bees that makes a significant quantity of honey. What you may not realise is that Beeswax is actually a harder product to make than honey and therefore a more valuable product to the bees. Honey bees (or to give...