I’m back. The run up to Xmas for us in the business as a small artisan producers who quite literally handmake everything, is really hard work! but rewarding, so apologies for absence from the webosphere but we are working our perfectly formed heaving bosoms off down here to get your Xmas goodies out to you!

Lani Budiman ( my esteemed, savvy, buoyant, perennially positive Sales manager…you would have met her instore in Hobart) has been slaving long and hard over a hot rewards system for all our loyal clients- we have many who have been with us for 18 years since the inception of the business-wow! Shows that good stuff that works survive all the passing fads..

All this geekery has has become possible through the wonders of technology and our new website…and TaDaaaaa! Our new shiny Bee Beauty Club!!

All of our business ( for 18 years)  comes by word of mouth or referrals as, like all small businesses who make good stuff, we have zero marketing budget, spending on good ingredients instead.

…..It’s a loyalty club for everyone, where members get rewarded for their purchases, and for introducing Beauty & the Bees healthy fresh skincare to their friends and family.

How does it work?

*When you make a purchase online, please register if you haven’t already done so.

Your points will then be recorded automatically.

*When you refer a friend, you and your friend will receive 15 points each when your friend makes the first purchase.

*When you make a purchase in the shop or market, please remember to write down your name & amount of purchase. The amount will then be entered in your “Bee Beauty Club”

Read all about the Bee Beauty Club on our home page and start rewarding yourself!

In addition, we now have Gift Certificates online so that you can give our luscious fab stuff to those starved of it’s Tasmanian goodness anywhere on the globe…check it out on our home page…

Talking of which we are trying to get one of our star products – our Tasmanian Beer Shampoo bar- on the telly. A Current Affair Sunrise and other morning/evening shows on commercial channels in Aus, are typical  tabloid magazine format programmes- an aquired taste- but spruik all sorts of stuff  and we need to reach a wider audience. If you use and love this product or any of our other quality goods, give them a call and lobby for us….tell them how fab it is and you want to see it on air!

You will earn the thanks of an old Media Tart from way back ( sold advertising space for 25 years before this incarnation as a small business toiler)!

Tasmania is turning on it’s show for Xmas with temperatures rising ( we made 22 degrees the other day! GASP! but a stiff breeze and a downpour soon fixed that) and all the stupendous produce  that we are famous for ( cherries, berries, salmon,olive oil all sorts of yummy stuff) is in stores here now, including the increased  Spring/Summer flow of rich creamy goats milk for our fresh goats milk soap….see below. Sigh, what a life these little creatures have!

Sandy Green's happy goats in the beautiful Huon Valley

Most appealingly the  roadside stalls mushroom along Tassie’s country roads groaning with fruit, jams and produce with their “honesty boxes” for payment…something that “mainlanders” and visitors from the big island to the North (Australia) are stunned by in these turbulent times. It’s just the way we are,our down home country -style thang, y’all.

All this fabulous produce makes it’s way to our annual monster food festival the Taste of Tasmania, held from 28th of December through to the 3rd of January, on the wharf at Salamanca, with over 300,000 visitors annually feasting on all that good stuff…. and this year we will be there with a stall in the new Retail Alley just outside, with our famous Beer Shampoo, which we are cranking out as fast as we physically can.

Come and say hello!

Well, have a Cool Yule wherever you are and “talk” again in the New Year…Toodlepip!