Burt's Bees: What's The Buzz?

We’re starting to get wise to what’s in our cosmetics and body products. The days of grease in our hair and baby oil as a tanning agent are over - or so we hope. But that doesn’t mean we’re giving up the goods. Some companies are making it a mission to provide quality cosmetic and body products without any of the creepy chemicals. Goodbye to things like parabens, phthalates and petroleum. Hello to ingredients like willowbark, beeswax and carrot seed oil. Burt's Bees has always been a leader in the push for better bath and body products and their focus on greening the industry has kept them at the front of the pack.

Top 10 buying tips

1. A Need to Bee Natural?

Skeptics of the natural ingredients in Burt’s Bees products are often wary of a lack of chemical ingredients, even though we know chemicals are foreign to our bodies and often harmful. But, they say, what about the great results modern chemicals bring? The reality is that most chemical ingredients designed to smooth, slick and smear on our faces and bodies have natural green counterparts; like switching out the resource-draining, pore clogging petroleum in standard lip glosses for beeswax, sunflower and sweet almond oil in Burt's Bees Super Shiny Lip Gloss.

2. Good for the Guys

Guys are starting to get behind the idea of quality green products for the face, body and hair and Burt’s Bees has a myriad of options for the eco-conscious, personal products-embracing guy, including the made-just-for-men Burt's Bees Natural Skin Care for Men Kit. Even guys with the most basics of beauty routines, for whom brushing their teeth is making an effort, can probably get use the Burt's Bees Lifeguard's Choice Waterproofing Lip Balm, and outdoorsy types will appreciate things like Burt's Bees Bug Bite Relief (which has saved the Greenzer team from scratching many a time) or the Burt's Bees Outdoor All In One Wash.

3. Hairy Situations

Depending on your shampoo and conditioner choices, you could be washing environmentally damaging chemicals down your drain along with the last of your suds. This harmful chemical-laden water eventually makes its way to rivers and water life. If you like good hair days and a healthy planet, check out Burt’s Bees line of shampoos and conditioners. The Burt's Bees Avocado Butter Pre-Shampoo Hair Treatment has been known to turn damaged and dry hair into the silky stuff of those Pantene Pro-V commercials.

4. Older and Wiser

Women have never been particularly fond of aging, hence the willingness of women worldwide to inject crazy-sounding chemicals directly into their faces. Please believe us when we say there’s a better way. A gentler, greener way. Tap the age-defying properties of anti-oxidant rich pomegranate in Burt Bee’s Naturally Ageless Intensive Repairing Serum or the nourishing elements of royal jelly in Burt’s Bees Royal Jelly Eye Cream.

5. Reading Material

One of the reasons we love Burt’s Bees is because they not only work to keep their products natural, but are also trying to change their industry. They’re not happy with the way companies can claim their products to be natural or organic when they’re not. You, like us, are probably not happy with that either. Until the laws on such claims change, it’s important to keep reading labels carefully, and you can check out the Burt’s Bees interactive guide to naturals and no no’s.

6. Special for Soon-to-Be Moms

Impending motherhood is an exciting thing, but it can also be an awakening. As you prepare to be completely in charge of someone else’s well-being, you can start to see the world as a very scary place, full of very scary things…like parabens and phthalates, chemicals that can cause birth defects. Burt’s Bees has products designed for Moms-To-Be that will ease the body, like the Burt’s Bees Mama Bee Belly Butter and Burt’s Bees Mama Bee Leg and Foot Crème to soothe tired legs and feet. All paraben- and phthalate-free, so you can ease your mind at the same time.

7. Better for Baby

If there’s one person who especially deserves natural, environmentally friendly products, it’s your baby. Harsh chemicals have no place on new, tender skin and Burt’s Bees gets that. They have a variety of healthy, green products designed especially for little ones, including the necessities: Burt’s Bees Baby Bee Diaper Ointment and Burt’s Bees Baby Bee Dusting Powder.

8. Fun in the Sun

The smell of a generous dollop of could-be-coconut-scented sunscreen is tied in most of our minds with happy memories of summer fun. What we don’t associate it with is potentially environmentally-damaging harsh chemicals, but they’re there. Stay burn-free and natural with Burt’s Bees Chemical Free Sunscreen. Which also smells much better than faux coconut.

9. Something More

Burt’s Bees puts almost as much effort into greening the world around them as they do into their products, which is no small feat. They’ve even started a volunteer work team, the ECOBEES, which promotes environmentally-friendly business practices. Recently, they pledged $2 million to the Nature Conservancy to preserve Maine forests. By buying Burt’s Bees products, you’re becoming a part of those accomplishments and making future ones possible.

10. Giving Greener

Bath and body products are an almost surefire hit when you’re looking for a gift to give. Giving a green Burt’s Bees gift kit is a perfect way to please the recipient and can even help turn a non-believer on to eco-conscious personal products. We suggest the Burt’s Bees Healthy Hands Hand Repair Kit and the Burt’s Bees Healthy Glow Radiance Kit.

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