Green Bee Botanicals

Green Bee Botanicals founders Bridget May and Kim Howard are featured in SFGATE today. Thank you, Lester Black, for including us in your story on "California's most innovative" cannabis companies. We have mixed feelings, of course. We're sad the market is so onerous that it's extinguishing brilliant businesses. We're also excited that we're creating a path forward for Green Bee. We cannot wait to relaunch and share our new products with you. Stay tuned and follow for more updates! 🐝⁠ ⁠ Read the full story on SFGATE at https://lnkd.in/ghGiDCsA

Production update: We're in the home stretch!   Why the extra wait? We've been facing a bottleneck (wink wink) with our even-more eco-friendly new glass bottles, which went into the queue for screen printing back in late February.   On the bright side, the bottles are now done! See below for a little behind-the-scenes video from the folks in Southern California who screen printed them BY HAND. What makes our new glass packaging more eco-friendly than before?   Our new glass partner in the Netherlands, Calaso: 🌍 Creates luxurious glass packaging with reuse, reduce, and recycle in mind. 🌍 Earned the prestigious ISO 14001 certificate to save energy and to reduce waste, emissions, and resource consumption. 🌍 Combines European craftsmanship with certified sustainability practices. 🌍 Makes lighter-weight glass bottles and jars that are 100% and endlessly recyclable. 🌍 Uses recycled glass in up to 65% of their raw materials. 🌍 Produces glass in CO2-friendly furnaces that limit emissions. 🌍 Powers factories and offices with certified CO2-free green electricity.

Just sharing the fun news that we spun the Random Name Picker wheel this morning and of the hundreds who took our skin survey, we landed on Katie Myers of Ojai, California! She'll receive all 7 of our upcoming skincare products as soon as they're ready. She's excited. ✨ Thank you again to all of you who took our survey. Your insights — combined with nature's most cutting-edge bioactives — empower us to make skincare that, in the words of our Beelievers, "change lives."

Thank you everyone in Sonoma and Napa who voted for us for Best CBD Products in the Bohemian's 2024 Best of North Bay Awards — we are thrilled and grateful!⁠ ⁠ We're excited to share that our newest farm partner, Sweetheal in Connecticut, has begun production of our soon-to-be-released Spa Collection products, which means they'll be available to you very soon. ⁠ ⁠ As always, the star ingredient of all of our products is grown organically and regeneratively by local Sonoma Hills Farm, which won not one but TWO Best of North Bay awards this year, including Best Hemp Farm. We agree!⁠ ⁠ More updates soon. In the meantime, thank you again, North Bay Bohemian and to all of you for Bee-lieving in us!⁠ ⁠ xoxo⁠ Bridget & Kim ⁠ ⁠ #bestofnorthbay #comingsoon #thankyou #cbdproducts #winecountry #sonomacounty #marincounty⁠ #entrepreneur #smallbusinesslove #shopsmall #buylocal #womanowned #northbaybohemian

Take this survey, win all 7 of our upcoming new products! 🎉 Help us help you with your most pressing skin issues by completing our new Skin Concerns Survey. Do it by Sunday, March 31, 11:59 PM Pacific and you'll be entered into our first big skincare giveaway of the year, worth $345. Details below.    SKIN CONCERNS SURVEY: https://lnkd.in/gkd5ryND   This survey includes 4 open-ended long-form questions, which is more work on your part than a straight multiple-choice survey.    So, to entice you and thank you in advance, we're entering everyone who completes this survey by March 31st into our skincare bundle giveaway.   One lucky winner will be selected randomly by April 3rd to receive: ✨ All 7 of Green Bee Botanicals' new Spa Collection products, including: ✨ Face serum, eye cream, moisturizer, toner, and more! ✨ VALUE: $345 ✨ We'll get them to you as soon as they're ready! PS: Earn extra chances to win our entire Spa Collection by sharing our survey with friends...details in the survey

WE'RE EXITING THE MARKET It's been a minute since you've heard from us, friends. Thanks for your patience. See our Q&A below for details, but in short, here's what's up: It's hard to say this out loud, but the truth is, we almost had to throw in the towel. Trying to make it in the California cannabis market has been the most challenging thing we've ever done. If it weren't for a few extra-amazing women in our circle — and without YOU, our Beelievers — we'd be posting now to say goodbye. But with unimaginable luck and gratitude, we're writing to say we're BACK, BAYBEEE! And it's only possible because we're saying goodbye to state-regulated cannabis, and going all-in with nationwide hemp. 🌱 Q&A Q: But wait, will my "new-and-improved" Green Bee favorite(s) be as effective? A: Yes. We spent the past year researching and testing new formulations using hemp-derived phytocannabinoids that studies show are as great or better for the skin as cannabis-derived THC. In fact, our products are now even more effective, because they're made with phytocannabinoids (and other new exciting ingredients) that are: • More antioxidant • More anti-inflammatory • More bioavailable and therefore faster-acting Q: Are there other reasons I should be happy about this change? A: Yes! Now that we're using only hemp, going forward ALL our products will be: • Available nationwide • Easy to buy from our website, woo hoo • Travel-friendly ...and you won't have to pay outrageous excise taxes anymore! Q: When can I get the new products? A: We're going back into production next week! 🎉 Barring any more supply chain or extreme weather incidents, we expect to have products available on our website and in a spa or boutique near you by the end of March/early April. Q: But your website still shows everything is sold out... A: Yeah, we're working on it...we're rebuilding the whole thing to make it easier for you to find and buy what you're looking for. We'll keep you posted. The URL will remain https://lnkd.in/gZS9Dmu6. We're sunsetting our .shop website now that we don't legally need to maintain two separate websites for cannabis vs hemp. Q: What's next? A: In the coming weeks, we will: • Introduce you to our new Spa Collection and what it all means • Explain the science behind the new phytocannabinoids • Ask you to vote on potential new products • Share sneak peeks of our new packaging • Introduce you to all the new products • Get your feedback on new ingredients we're excited about • Drop more plant knowledge, as always 🌿 Thank you for hanging in here with us! You make this rollercoaster worth riding, no matter how scary it gets. And when you share your feedback, stories, and good energy, it stops us from white-knuckling it and lets us enjoy the ride. We're over the moon with excitement of what's to come. We hope you are too, but comment or DM us with any Qs or concerns so we can respond. xo - Bridget & Kim