Three New Honey Girl Products for Valentine's Day!

Now, from Honey Girl Organics, a facial cleanser and night cream to visibly smooth and renew skin, helping to restore skin to its youthful look and vitality.

For a refreshing and revitalizing morning routine, use our Facial Cleanser followed by Honey Girl Organics' exquisite and delicate Face & Eye crème.

For evening routine, use the Honey Girl Organics facial cleanser followed by the night crème. Immediately, skin feels more comfortable, softer and hydrated. The next morning, skin looks healthier and revitalized, imperfections look diminished and skin looks younger and the appearance of fine lines is reduced. Your skin wakes up looking well-rested, more luminous.

Finally, a personal lubricant that you can have confidence in. Honey Girl Organics' personal lubricant is made from all natural, ingredients. It smoothes your skin, while enhancing sensual intimacy. This lubricant is completely free of parabens, glycerin, fragrances, hormones, silicones and petroleum products, so you can feel safe about using it generously.

Facial Cleanser - (4oz) This botanically based facial cleanser gently washes away impurities and make-up while moisturizing and leaving your skin feeling smoother and refreshed. It stimulates your skin's vitality with an energizing complex of vitamins and minerals, while helping to 'recharge' cells deep within the surface of the skin, revealing revitalized, radiantly healthy looking skin.

Night Crème: (1 oz.) An extra rich blend of nature's finest ingredients. This crème leaves skin hydrated, helping to reveal a flawless skin tone and exceptional luminosity. Wake up to fresher and younger looking skin.

Personal Lubricant: (2oz.) This organic and safe personal lubricant softens and smoothes skin, while enhancing sensual intimacy. It is safe to use internally, and helps relieve dryness. It intensifies sensation and has excellent staying power, it is created from pure and organic ingredients, completely free of parabens, glycerin, fragrances, hormones, silicones and petroleum products and it feels good, tastes good and is safe to ingest!

Hope you enjoy our new products and have a great Valentine's Day!

Historical Uses of Olive Oil

Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil is one of the prime ingredients in all Honey Girl Organics skin care products; however olive oil has been used for thousands of years because of its unique properties. In this post I’ll give a brief overview of the historical uses of olive oil which range from cooking oil to religious rituals to an ingredient in soap, not to mention ancient forms of skin care.

Oil was first extracted from olives over 5,000 years ago in western Asia, especially the eastern Mediterranean and many believe widespread cultivation of olives began on the Greek isle of Crete. Egyptians imported the oil from Crete thousands of years ago and by the height of the Roman Empire it had spread throughout the entire Mediterranean.

Olive trees flourished in the rocky Greek countryside that was hostile to most types of trees. Their ability to thrive in harsh conditions led to Italian folklore dictating that the five ingredients for ideal olive trees were “sun, stone, drought, silence and solitude.” It was believed that the incredible vitality of olive trees was conferred to people through their oil, which was thought to enhance a person’s strength and youth.

Olive oil was very common in ancient Greek and Roman cuisine and was used to fuel sacred lamps. In the ancient city of Sparta athletes were known to rub themselves with olive oil to accentuate the body’s natural beauty, a practice which spread throughout Hellenic society and was often seen at the Olympic games of ancient Greece. Olive trees were so valued that those who cut one down were often condemned to death or exile as punishment. According to legend, the famous Greek city of Athens was so named because ancient Athenians considered olive oil (the offering of the goddess Athena) more essential than water (the offering of the god Poseidon). Olive oil was so important to ancient Greek society that Homer (the world’s very first novelist) famously referred to it as “liquid gold."

Many religious rituals were performed using olive oil. The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, for example, celebrates the miracle of a small amount of olive oil lasting eight nights, seven more than was expected. The Catholic Church also uses olive oil to bless and strengthen those preparing for Baptism. The Qur’an, the Islamic holy book, actually refers to the olive as a sacred plant.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil, means that the olive oil was obtained by pressing the olives, rather than from chemical means and is thus most like the olive oil used by ancient peoples. Extra Virgin Olive Oil has less than 1% acidity and is the healthiest available. In Honey Girl Organics skin care products we use only organic extra virgin olive oil, the best kind you can find.

Well I hope you enjoyed that look at the history of Olive Oil, I plan to be looking into the history of Honey Girl’s other products too, so check back soon!