The Bee Friendly Store
🍯 BEDFORDSHIRE HONEY • 🕯️ HAND-POURED CANDLES • 🏡 BOTANICAL HOME MISTS
Artisan hand-poured candles, raw & set honey, botanical room sprays & wax melts
Run by Andrea out of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, The Bee Friendly Store is a wonderful independent UK business with a genuine passion for pollinators. Championing traditional British craft, Andrea pairs local hive harvests with small-batch home fragrance, making it a go-to destination for nature-friendly living and thoughtful eco gifts.
Their hive pantry features pure, cold-extracted local Bedfordshire honey—available in both delicate clear runny and smooth set varieties. Alongside her honey jars, Andrea handcrafts clean-burning candles (from handy votives to 200g centerpieces) and fragrant wax melts, complemented by a charming line of botanical room sprays such as Bee Keepers Cottage, Honey & Clementine, and English Pear & Freesia.
- ✨ Specialities: Local Bedfordshire runny & set honey, hand-poured candle votives & jars, fragrant wax melts, and artisan botanical room sprays.
- 📍 Base: Wellingborough, Northamptonshire (Featuring Bedfordshire honey • Delivering nationwide)
Woodstock English Honey
🍯 COLD-EXTRACTED • 🐝 SINGLE-ORIGIN • 📍 CHILTERNS, UK
Raw, local single-origin honey & hive products from Hertfordshire & Bedfordshire
Nestled at Sallow Copse in Ringshall on the Chilterns border near Berkhamsted, Woodstock English Honey is run by beekeeper Chris Smith. Managing hives across the local countryside, they produce unpasteurised, pure local English honey that reflects the wild seasonal flora of the region—from spring hedgerows to rich summer wildflower meadows. Their focus on high-welfare, sustainable apiary management means every jar captures authentic, cold-extracted local forage with all its beneficial natural pollens intact.
Beyond raw seasonal honey, Chris makes exceptional use of the apiary’s natural hive harvests. Their range features 100% natural beeswax, hand-poured candles, rich lip balms, and handcrafted honeycomb soaps that make the most of honey’s soothing skin benefits. For eco-conscious kitchens, they offer food wax wrap kits, alongside beautifully curated honey gift sets that celebrate British craft. For fellow apiarists, Woodstock English Honey also supplies quality, locally raised nucleus colonies (nucs), supporting the next generation of beekeepers with calm, well-adapted regional stock.
- ✨ Specialities: Raw local honey, pure natural beeswax, hand-poured candles, honeycomb soap, soothing lip balms and locally reared bees.
- 📍 Apiary Location: Sallow Copse, Ringshall, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
Honeybee Artisan
🧼 GOAT’S MILK & HONEY • 🌸 BOTANICAL WAX ART • 📍 NORTHERN UK
Artisan goat’s milk honey soaps, botanical wax melts, themed jewellery & pamper gift sets
Founded after discovering raw honey’s restorative power first-hand while recovering from an infection, Honeybee Artisan crafts luxury, small-batch skincare and home aromatics that celebrate the hive. To soothe dry, itchy, or eczema-prone skin, they blend raw honey with premium SLS- and SLES-free goat’s milk soap bases rich in natural vitamins and minerals. These gentle bars form the heart of their signature bee-themed pamper gift sets, coordinated with bee and botanical jewellery pieces suited for all ages.
Their creative collection also features Bee Botanicals, a range of hand-poured candles and wax melts treated like individual pieces of miniature floral artwork. Scented with pure essential oils and fragrances, each piece is hand-decorated with crystals, seeds, and dried botanicals gathered from their own garden and local countryside. Drawn from campervan travels across Cumbria, the Yorkshire Dales, and the Scottish Highlands, their creations capture an authentic appreciation for wild British landscapes and pollinator forage.
- ✨ Specialities: SLS-free goat’s milk and raw honey soaps, hand-decorated botanical wax melts, pure essential oil candles, and curated bee jewellery gift sets.
- 📍 Base: Inspired across Cumbria, Yorkshire Dales & Scotland (Delivering nationwide)
Let It Bee
🐝 SISTER-RUN APIARY • 🌿 PLASTIC-FREE CRAFT • 📍 BIRMINGHAM, UK
All-natural honey skincare, small-batch soaps & sustainable beeswax goods from suburban apiaries
Founded by bee-loving sisters Jane and Gillian, Let It Bee crafts natural, small-batch skincare and home essentials powered by pure Birmingham honey and beeswax. Jane’s beekeeping journey began in 2010, managing around ten hives nestled in suburban gardens and allotments across Kings Norton and Cotteridge. When searching for gentle, plastic-free solutions for her own sensitive skin, Jane began handcrafting balms and soaps from her hive harvests—recipes that quickly earned devoted followings among friends, neighbours, and fellow local beekeepers.
Today, the sisters transform their award-winning local honey and pure beeswax into deeply moisturising body balms, gentle handmade soaps, and eco-friendly home goods. Every creation is handmade in small batches with zero synthetic shortcuts, packaged exclusively in 100% recyclable or reusable materials to keep plastic out of the environment. Beyond the workshop, Jane remains actively involved with her local beekeeping association, mentoring and training the next generation of urban apiarists.
- ✨ Specialities: Award-winning suburban honey, all-natural honey soaps, restorative beeswax balms, and plastic-free eco gifts.
- 📍 Apiary Base: Kings Norton & Cotteridge, Birmingham, West Midlands
Beeutiful
🌿 100% NATURAL • 🐝 OWN-HIVE HONEY • 📍 HAMPSHIRE, UK
Award winning natural skincare, chemical-free soaps & pure beeswax body care
Crafted around the philosophy of pure transparency, Beeutiful formulates affordable, 100% natural skincare designed to soothe and support even the most sensitive skin. Every formulation is built on raw honey harvested directly from their own hives in Hampshire alongside ethically sourced, excess British beeswax. Operating under the simple rule that if you wouldn’t eat an ingredient, you shouldn’t put it on your skin, their entire range is completely free from parabens, synthetic fragrances, artificial colourings, phthalates, silicones, and petrochemicals.
Their handmade soaps are crafted without harsh detergents or SLS lathering agents, relying instead on therapeutic UK-sourced botanicals and nourishing hive ingredients that cleanse gently without irritation. Every product is certified safe by an independent cosmetic chemist, registered with the UK Cosmetic Products Notification Portal, and hand-packaged in infinitely recyclable glass jars and aluminium tins. Dedicated to protecting our pollinators, Beeutiful also donates an annual portion of sales directly to the British Beekeeping Association to support crucial research into honey bee conservation.
- ✨ Specialities: SLS-free honey soaps, restorative skin salves, sensitive-skin body balms, and eco-friendly aluminium & glass gift sets.
- 📍 Apiary Base: Hampshire, United Kingdom
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