The Humble Honeybee Soap Co.

01/18/2025

12/16/2024

🎄✨ Give the Gift of Handmade this Holiday Season! ✨🎄

Looking for thoughtful, one-of-a-kind gifts? I’ve been busy creating:
🧼 Soaps
🛁 Bath Bombs
🌿 Scrubs
💧 Body Oils
☃️ Snowmen

Perfect for stocking stuffers, gift baskets, or a little self-care treat. 🎁

Spread some holiday cheer with gifts made with love. Message me to place your order or create a custom gift basket! ❤️

10/24/2024

As an advocate for animal welfare, I am compelled to share this personal experience to emphasize the importance of spaying/neutering pets. Recently, a stray cat entered my life, displaying unusual affection and attachment. Following veterinary examination, severe health complications were discovered, including infection, maggot infestation, and spinal damage necessitating euthanasia. This heartbreaking outcome highlights the critical need for responsible pet ownership practices, specifically spaying and neutering, to prevent similar suffering.

Please Share, you could save 100+ lives.

Pictured below is my beloved Black Magic 💔😞

10/24/2024

Baby shower favor for little pumpkin on the way!🤍 🍼🍂

10/23/2024

Shower favor basket for a little pumpkin who is on the way.

07/14/2024

Did you know, those little bees you see in the evening sitting on flowers are old bees.
Old & sick bees don't return to the hive at the end of their day.
They spend the night on flowers, and if they have the chance to see another sunrise, they resume their activity by bringing pollen or nectar to the colony.
They do this sensing that the end is near.
No bee waits to die in the hive so as not to burden the others.
So, next time you see an old little bee sat upon a flower as the night closes in.....thank the little bee for her life long service. 🐝

03/28/2024

Said every honeybee

03/22/2024

This is a dead honeybee. The pollen on her legs is from dandelions. Her tongue is sticking out due to what killed her that was on the dandelions.
It’s spring, dandelions are the bees first food. This bee is dead from w**d killer spread on what we see as w**ds, but what nature sees as food. Please don’t spray for w**ds until you see the blackberries blooming. In this area, w**ds, flowers and fruit trees are bees only source of food until middle of June. There are FAR more w**ds than flowers or fruit trees, so it's their only food source. No bees, no food crops for us and we all starve.
Sue Wylie

03/03/2024

With love in the air and wedding season approaching, keep us in mind for your bridal shower favors.

03/03/2024

Our spring collection will be displayed at The Galleria at Dona Michele Corner as well as our new location in Quakertown; Ones Holistic Wellness @ 1314 W. Broad St., Quakertown.
Remember that the Humble Honeybee Soap Co. donates a percentage of sales to the preservation of the honeybee population.
We are the small soap company with the honey sweet ❤️.

11/24/2023

11/20/2023

There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a strange tradition.

Whenever there was a death in the family, someone had to go out to the hives and tell the bees of the terrible loss that had befallen the family.

Failing to do so often resulted in further losses such as the bees leaving the hive, or not producing enough honey or even dying.

Traditionally, the bees were kept abreast of not only deaths but all important family matters including births, marriages, and long absence due to journeys. If the bees were not told, all sorts of calamities were thought to happen. This peculiar custom is known as “telling the bees”.

The practice of telling the bees may have its origins in Celtic mythology that held that bees were the link between our world and the spirit world. So if you had any message that you wished to pass to someone who was dead, all you had to do was tell the bees and they would pass along the message.

The typical way to tell the bees was for the head of the household, or “goodwife of the house” to go out to the hives, knock gently to get the attention of the bees, and then softly murmur in a doleful tune the solemn news.

Little rhymes developed over the centuries specific to a particular region. In Nottinghamshire, the wife of the dead was heard singing quietly in front of the hive,

“The master's dead, but don't you go; Your mistress will be a good mistress to you.”

In Germany, a similar couplet was heard,

“Little bee, our lord is dead; Leave me not in my distress”.

But the relationship between bees and humans goes beyond superstition. It’s a fact, that bees help humans survive. 70 of the top 100 crop species that feed 90% of the human population rely on bees for pollination.

Without them, these plants would cease to exist and with it all animals that eat those plants. This can have a cascading effect that would ripple catastrophically up the food chain.

Losing a beehive is much worse than losing a supply of honey. The consequences are life threatening.

The act of telling the bees emphasizes this deep connection humans share with the insect.

Art: The Bee Friend, a painting by Hans Thoma (1839–1924)