Ohgetoveryourself
Active member
Why do people believe this bull, she’s definitely made this up to feed her ego, I wish more people could see this is all Narc behaviour
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sweetiexoxoxo
Well-known member
If anyone wants a nourishing, occlusive face cream without lining the pockets of a woman who thinks she invented whipped shea and thinks it's morally justifiable to sell jars of LITERAL SUGAR for £30 a pop, I have a recommendation for you: Weleda skin food. Smells similar to ZB creams, does the job better, leaves a good glow and is miles cheaper than anything thats been whipped by her kitchenaid 
whathastheworldcometo
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I just saw this thread by coincidence and had a look at the site.
I think you can make most of these products at home for little money. There are good websites and books on how to make your own cosmetics.
Last year, in lockdown, I started making some creams myself - for my parents that had some skin problems. It was real easy and cheap, too.
I then also started to make my own scented candles.
Here are some websites I have looked at and used recipes from:
bumblebeeapothecary.com
www.organic-beauty-recipes.com
www.ouroilyhouse.com
simplelivingcreativelearning.com
www.prettysimpleideas.com
I have a collection of essential oils now, and they are not cheap if you want high quality, but the other ingredients are not expensive.
My advice would be to invest in good basics and then do research on the healing properties of essential oils depending on your needs and purchase them in the best quality you can afford.
I really like frankincense and I made a night cream with lavender that I love as it calms me down at night and in the morning I use my body wash that I made with orange oil.
It's fun!
I think you can make most of these products at home for little money. There are good websites and books on how to make your own cosmetics.
Last year, in lockdown, I started making some creams myself - for my parents that had some skin problems. It was real easy and cheap, too.
I then also started to make my own scented candles.
Here are some websites I have looked at and used recipes from:
How to Make Lotion with Shea Butter
Do you ever feel like a detective, scouring the labels of products before you buy them? Come join me as I show how to make lotion with shea butter.
bumblebeeapothecary.com
How to make lotion with shea butter in 5 minutes and with only 2 ingredients - Organic Beauty Recipes
If you are into a minimalist lifestyle, this shea body butter lotion recipe is for you. You will learn how to make lotion with shea butter with only 2 main ingredients: organic shea butter and organic safflower oil and you can whip it in just 5 minutes. You don't even need to heat it up
www.organic-beauty-recipes.com
Homemade Face Moisturizer
This natural homemade face moisturizer recipe is easy to make and will leave the skin feeling soft and smooth. Perfect for the colder months!
www.ouroilyhouse.com
The BEST All-Natural Homemade Lotion
Have you ever heard the phrase "Necessity is the mother of invention"? As with most things I've created, this recipe for The Best All-Natural Homemade Lotion is no exception. As young as a pre-teen, I
www.acrochetedsimplicity.com
DIY All Natural Daily Face Moisturiser
This Daily Face Moisturiser is amazing and works out cheaper that the commercial products It is also a lot better for your skin.
simplelivingcreativelearning.com
Easy DIY Face Lotion for Sensitive Skin
If you suffer from acne, rosacea, or eczema then you will love this DIY Face lotion for sensitive skin. Made with shea butter and frankincense oil.
www.prettysimpleideas.com
I have a collection of essential oils now, and they are not cheap if you want high quality, but the other ingredients are not expensive.
My advice would be to invest in good basics and then do research on the healing properties of essential oils depending on your needs and purchase them in the best quality you can afford.
I really like frankincense and I made a night cream with lavender that I love as it calms me down at night and in the morning I use my body wash that I made with orange oil.
It's fun!
Hello! I started using these creams a year ago, just before lockdown 1. Got really annoyed at the 'going live at 12' sales. But I did get drawn into it! Sat there with the laptop stress sweating to get my hands on it. I was expecting miracles that didn't happen. The nature's Botox...nope, the cream that help swell your lips...nope. I gave it months and it does help my dry skin feel less angry but it would, it's Shea butter. The worst thing is now0 the cream that was £13/£14 is now £28/£29!!!! I mean really! It's totally out of a price range now. Anyone used anything else that's helpful for dry itchy skin! 
. I don't know how she can get away with this. Feel like I'm paying for her posh new house!
. I don't know how she can get away with this. Feel like I'm paying for her posh new house!
freshhead
Chatty Member
Fuck sake. Now she’s thieving small instagrammers personal thoughts to upload to her business page, just for a quick arse lick.
Funny thing is now it’s easy to see she searches through Insta hash tags and will copy and paste things that she thinks will never be found. She’s a successful business owner that sells creams but for some fucked up reason feels the need to do this whole self love bullshit which she clearly doesn’t believe in herself since she can’t string an honest sentence together from her own mind about any of it.
Mean while I’m over here ‘really’ believing she didn’t copy any of her creams/brand from shit she found online...hmmmm
Speedy delete of the post tonight sometimes I swear she’s trolling herself to see if she will get a reaction. All these books she reads and she’s still struggling for an original thought. Bless her
Funny thing is now it’s easy to see she searches through Insta hash tags and will copy and paste things that she thinks will never be found. She’s a successful business owner that sells creams but for some fucked up reason feels the need to do this whole self love bullshit which she clearly doesn’t believe in herself since she can’t string an honest sentence together from her own mind about any of it.
Mean while I’m over here ‘really’ believing she didn’t copy any of her creams/brand from shit she found online...hmmmm
Speedy delete of the post tonight
sometimes I swear she’s trolling herself to see if she will get a reaction. All these books she reads and she’s still struggling for an original thought. Bless herAttachments
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Sunshine01Snow
Member
WOW. Just wow.
She’s at it again.
£55 for 150ml of body butter. I am flabbergasted, truly.
I feel so so sad for the women who get sucked into this, I really do
She’s at it again.
£55 for 150ml of body butter. I am flabbergasted, truly.
I feel so so sad for the women who get sucked into this, I really do
PineappleQueen19
VIP Member
If anyone is looking for an easy Shea body butter recipe, I have used Rachel Ama’s a few times now. Excellent results
I see this is an old thread but I just stumbled upon it because I was considering buying some of her products. My dad has quite a severe case of psoriasis and has damaged the skin on his legs by using a steroid cream treatment for too long. I was very much hoping Zoe Bee creams might work for Dad, but have become increasingly suspicious that the hype is BS, for several reasons:
1. Zoe posted somewhere about her daily skincare routine, and stated that she double cleanses. “Double cleansing” refers to the practice of using an oil-based cleanser followed by a water-based one (or the other way round; I can’t remember which). However, Zoe mentioned the two cleansers she used, and they were both oils. It appeared she thought “double cleansing” simply meant “cleansing twice”, and that got me questioning how she would have the knowledge to make these miraculous creams if she could make that basic of an error.
2. When I ran out of moisturiser a couple of years back, instead of buying a new one I dug out an old tub of Shea butter from my bathroom cabinet. I loved the rich, luxurious texture and how I only needed to use a teeny bit, otherwise my skin would be super greasy. Seeing all the comments that Zoe and her customers would make about how “you only need a small amount because the creams are very rich…” made me suspect that they are essentially just Shea butter with a few drops of other ingredients. In which case, the “miracle cream” stuff seems a little suspect, because shea butter isn’t a cure-all for skin complaints.
3. I’d always questioned why a skincare product would contain amethyst or rose quartz, but I thought hey, no big deal, some very sensible people I know believe in crystal energy and other stuff I would characterise as “woo”. When she introduced her Queen Bee cream by talking about the supposedly amazing Swiss apple stem cells it contained, however, my scepticism increased. I looked up apple stem cells and there didn’t appear to be any good evidence supporting the idea that applying them to the skin has any benefits. I began thinking that if her creams were so effective then why did she add an ingredient that sounded impressive and science-y but was probably useless? Were all her creams, all her ingredients, similarly just smoke and mirrors?
4. One thing that had impressed me was how her skin always appeared to have this beautiful glow. Call me naive if you want, but I thought it was all real and natural, as she seemed to position it as the result of using her creams (“that Zoe Bee glow”). However recently she posted a video demonstrating how her morning makeup routine creates the “glow” effect. I guess I can give her credit for finally being honest that the glow shouldn’t be attributed to her creams, but it struck me that the products she was using didn’t appear to have similar “caring” credentials to her own brand (plastic free, vegan etc), and even if they did, she was using a lot of products just for one aesthetic outcome. The video just seemed like a window into a disconnect between the professed “natural, Earth-friendly beauty” values of her brand and the reality behind the scenes.
Maybe that last point is a little harsh. I dunno, maybe everything I’ve said here is a little harsh. Maybe the hype is real. I am just inclined to be extra sceptical given the price point of the product. If her creams were £10-15 a pop I’d have bought one by now, without even caring if they were mostly just Shea butter and pseudoscience, since I love using Shea butter on my skin anyway. It’s the big claims and the big prices that have made me think twice.
Edited to add, for anyone who’s looking for an alternative to Zoe Bee, Facetheory products tick the vegan and minimal plastic/eco packaging boxes.I’ve just started using one of their serums and I am blown away by the result. My face is so soft I can’t stop touching it (ironically this will almost certainly lead to a breakout!).
1. Zoe posted somewhere about her daily skincare routine, and stated that she double cleanses. “Double cleansing” refers to the practice of using an oil-based cleanser followed by a water-based one (or the other way round; I can’t remember which). However, Zoe mentioned the two cleansers she used, and they were both oils. It appeared she thought “double cleansing” simply meant “cleansing twice”, and that got me questioning how she would have the knowledge to make these miraculous creams if she could make that basic of an error.
2. When I ran out of moisturiser a couple of years back, instead of buying a new one I dug out an old tub of Shea butter from my bathroom cabinet. I loved the rich, luxurious texture and how I only needed to use a teeny bit, otherwise my skin would be super greasy. Seeing all the comments that Zoe and her customers would make about how “you only need a small amount because the creams are very rich…” made me suspect that they are essentially just Shea butter with a few drops of other ingredients. In which case, the “miracle cream” stuff seems a little suspect, because shea butter isn’t a cure-all for skin complaints.
3. I’d always questioned why a skincare product would contain amethyst or rose quartz, but I thought hey, no big deal, some very sensible people I know believe in crystal energy and other stuff I would characterise as “woo”. When she introduced her Queen Bee cream by talking about the supposedly amazing Swiss apple stem cells it contained, however, my scepticism increased. I looked up apple stem cells and there didn’t appear to be any good evidence supporting the idea that applying them to the skin has any benefits. I began thinking that if her creams were so effective then why did she add an ingredient that sounded impressive and science-y but was probably useless? Were all her creams, all her ingredients, similarly just smoke and mirrors?
4. One thing that had impressed me was how her skin always appeared to have this beautiful glow. Call me naive if you want, but I thought it was all real and natural, as she seemed to position it as the result of using her creams (“that Zoe Bee glow”). However recently she posted a video demonstrating how her morning makeup routine creates the “glow” effect. I guess I can give her credit for finally being honest that the glow shouldn’t be attributed to her creams, but it struck me that the products she was using didn’t appear to have similar “caring” credentials to her own brand (plastic free, vegan etc), and even if they did, she was using a lot of products just for one aesthetic outcome. The video just seemed like a window into a disconnect between the professed “natural, Earth-friendly beauty” values of her brand and the reality behind the scenes.
Maybe that last point is a little harsh. I dunno, maybe everything I’ve said here is a little harsh. Maybe the hype is real. I am just inclined to be extra sceptical given the price point of the product. If her creams were £10-15 a pop I’d have bought one by now, without even caring if they were mostly just Shea butter and pseudoscience, since I love using Shea butter on my skin anyway. It’s the big claims and the big prices that have made me think twice.
Edited to add, for anyone who’s looking for an alternative to Zoe Bee, Facetheory products tick the vegan and minimal plastic/eco packaging boxes.I’ve just started using one of their serums and I am blown away by the result. My face is so soft I can’t stop touching it (ironically this will almost certainly lead to a breakout!).
MakeMineADouble
VIP Member
Had a little look at Trustpilot. I find it very interesting that many of the 5* reviews are from people who have only ever posted 1 review 
A selfie while she cries is a new low. Do better, Zoe. You can make the point you want to make without being THAT person.
Does anyone else get annoyed with the way she/her staff respond to social media comments? Everything they respond with is so insincere. It does my head in seeing 'thank you for your kindness' with that yellow heart on basically everything.
Does anyone else get annoyed with the way she/her staff respond to social media comments? Everything they respond with is so insincere. It does my head in seeing 'thank you for your kindness' with that yellow heart on basically everything.
MakeMineADouble
VIP Member
Oooh none of the above and she just wants engagement and attention? Could be any to be honest
she posted heavily filtered selfish for a LONG time and continues to do so. When she doesn't, it's clear she's found good lighting and covers half her face in hairI've been watching this thread a while and needed to chime in finally. Using a customer who has passed away the way she did recently for clout is so gross. The way she pats herself on the back for all her giving to charity etc is gross.
I've seen a Gucci handbag in a couple of her posts. Isn't she vegan? I'm vegan and not to be preachy but using leather is not something I'm comfortable with, especially with so many good leather alternatives these days. Unless Gucci have some kind of leather-free alternative I've not heard of?
The whole thing smells of maintaining an image. I tried her creams once and ended up throwing them away. There was little gemstone dust bits in the amethyst cream that I accidentally smeared onto my face and scratched it, even though I thought I'd taken all the gemstones off the top. It was so thick and didn't blend well, and just left my face oily.
I've seen a Gucci handbag in a couple of her posts. Isn't she vegan? I'm vegan and not to be preachy but using leather is not something I'm comfortable with, especially with so many good leather alternatives these days. Unless Gucci have some kind of leather-free alternative I've not heard of?
The whole thing smells of maintaining an image. I tried her creams once and ended up throwing them away. There was little gemstone dust bits in the amethyst cream that I accidentally smeared onto my face and scratched it, even though I thought I'd taken all the gemstones off the top. It was so thick and didn't blend well, and just left my face oily.
StrawberryCream
VIP Member
Totally forgot about this thread I posted on it a while back and I tried the scrub and the green cream, scrub smelt nice but don’t think it done much? Green cream was super greasy and made my skin feel totally clogged up, I left an average review and im pretty sure it got deleted! She is absolutely raking it in too, new house, ‘bee’ house place where she makes the creams now and drives a 4x4 Porsche. Fair play to her but it’s totally wrong to delete any negative reviews, people are spending their hard earned and I bet a lot are pretty disappointed when they don’t get amazing results!
takeabreakfakes
Member
My friend tagged me in a recent give away and said the avocado cream has saved her skin. I have followed since the give away and was thinking of buying but there is something I can’t put my finger on with it that makes me not want to part with my money for it. Ingredients seem simple and it seems so over priced. I find the posts to come across quite fake? What’s with the constant asking about what people like about the products? Is it just me who has noticed that the engagement on the posts aren’t great either and the worse the engagement has got the more posts there seem to be. I’m still on the fence of whether to buy the avocado cream. I just wonder is it all too good to be true as some people just need a good moisturiser but you can buy good moisturisers everywhere these days for so much cheaper 
Oppyonion
Active member
Lots of recipes online, I don’t know why more people don’t just save their money and DIY!
CatsCake&Coffee
Member
Definitely!! All for attention
whathastheworldcometo
VIP Member
Haha, no.
I write in the dating thread - she is married with two sons!
I never bought from her and don't really have a relationship with her, I guess that's why I don't have a lot of hard feelings.
The thing is:
I would love to have my own business to make me tons of dosh. So I was interested in reading how much money she made.
I am also interested in making my own beauty products (I gave some advice a few pages ago) - but never thought they would sell so well.
So to sum it up: I think she built herself a little empire, which is clever, but I wonder why she sells so much and how.
But as I said: it seems her products are too expensive and easy to make at home. (Look at the eye lash serum: 2 ingredients!)
I don't follow her insta and never bought from her so don't know her really. But from what you all say on her she seems dodgy.
Sunshine01Snow
Member
Can companies really delete bad reviews? I didn’t know that
. I’ve just looked on Trustapilot, there’s a few bad still there.