The Royal Treatment™ Facial Cream (image courtesy of BeeCeuticals Organics)

Some green entrepreneurs are new to the world of sustainable living, but for others an eco-friendly endeavor is part of a lifelong commitment to better health and a better world.

Take Julie and Richie Gerber, founders of BeeCeuticals Organics, who have been involved with health and wellness since they first met over 30 years ago. Together, they saw the desire for natural foods evolve from the fringes of society in the early 1970s to the widely popular movement it is today. Now the couple has created BeeCeuticals to offer body care products that are naturally healthy, biodegradable, sustainable, and cruelty free.

In the 1970s Julie was a yoga teacher and Richie a vegetarian jazz sax player. They moved to Maine, started an organic farm, built their own energy efficient home, taught T’ai Chi Ch’uan and vegetarian cooking classes, while also teaching in the local schools. Their veggie diet seems to provide them with an awful lot of energy!

After several years, the two licensed nutritionists moved to Florida and opened a small neighborhood health food store. They shared their knowledge with customers, held educational events, gave cooking classes, wrote wellness newsletters, ran a restaurant, and more. For 10 years Richie hosted the Natural Grocer Radio Show, a pioneer in South Florida talk-radio. They managed all that while raising their son, Isaac. He's now the website designer and webmaster for the family business.

Julie and Richie have created a very special body care line for BeeCeuticals Organics. They select only the highest quality ingredients for their products, using certified organic botanicals, extracts, oils and butters, and of course, therapeutical bee products. Each product contains their healing Organic Holistic Honey Blend™. They never use sodium laureth/lauryl sulfate, parabens or synthetic fragrances.

They strive to be as gentle on the environment as their products are on the body by offsetting 100% of their power usage with wind and solar power in partnership with Carbonfund.org.

If you’d like to learn more about Julie & Richie’s company and their line of healthy and eco-friendly body care products go to: BeeCeuticals Organics

Thank you Susan Tango!