Royal jelly

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Our bee cosmetics, in particular our royal jelly cosmetics, are characterized by natural ingredients. All royal jelly cosmetic products are not tested on animals.

What is royal jelly?
Royal jelly is the food juice used by honey bees to raise their queens.
While the larvae of the worker bees are switched to pollen and honey on the third day of their existence, the larva from which a queen is to emerge continues to receive exclusively royal jelly from the nurse bees. The weight of the queen larva, which feeds exclusively on royal jelly, increases two thousand-fold in five days, while the worker larva weighs considerably less. Consequently, the queen bee hatches on the 17th day, the worker bee on the 21st day and the drone, the male bee, only on the 27th day after egg laying. The special feeding of the queen larva means that the queen bee lives 40 times longer than a normal worker bee.

Royal jelly is rich in valuable ingredients such as carbohydrates, protein, trace elements, amino acids and B vitamins (e.g. biotin, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and folic acid). People have been using the benefits of bee products such as propolis and royal jelly for over 9,000 years. Even the Greek physician Hippocrates used royal jelly to heal wounds, and until the discovery of penicillin, it was also prescribed in medicine as an antibacterial agent.