Savannah Bee Company
A Georgia beekeeping company whose body care is made in the USA and whose honey is, by its own account, sourced from around the world.
🏭 American Manufacturing
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Company details
Where Savannah Bee Company products are made
The sentence “Every body care product we sell is made in the USA” appears across the body care catalogue — hand creams, balms, lip care and gift sets — rather than on a single item.
Savannah Bee does not claim its honey is American. Product copy describes honey “sourced from wildflower fields around the world,” and the company builds its range around varietals such as tupelo, acacia and orange blossom from specific regions.
The company operates from Savannah, Georgia, with a retail flagship on West Broughton Street and a production and showroom campus on Wilmington Island.
The Federal Trade Commission reserves an unqualified Made in USA claim for goods that are all or virtually all of domestic origin. Savannah Bee makes that claim for its body care and does not make it for its honey. We have kept the line where the company drew it, which is why this profile reads American Manufacturing rather than Made in USA.
The story
Ted Dennard learned beekeeping as a teenager from a beekeeper who kept hives on his family’s land in Georgia. He founded Savannah Bee Company in 2002 — the company’s own wholesale page puts it plainly: “In 2002, Ted Dennard founded Savannah Bee Company with the mission to sell the best honey and beehive products.”
The business grew in two directions at once. One was honey as a varietal product, sold the way wine is sold — tupelo, acacia, orange blossom, sourwood — with the source of each named rather than blended into anonymity. The other was the hive itself as a raw material: beeswax, propolis and royal jelly turned into hand creams, balms and lip care.
It is the second line that is American-made. Savannah Bee has grown to more than a dozen retail locations, and the body care that fills those shelves is manufactured in the United States — a fact the company states on the product page rather than burying in an About section.
Why they matter
Personal care is one of the categories where origin claims are most often stretched, because “formulated in” and “packaged in” can be made to sound like “made in.” Savannah Bee avoids the trick by using one flat sentence and applying it to a defined set of products.
The honey side is instructive in the opposite way. American beekeeping is under real pressure, and a company that sold only domestic honey at Savannah Bee’s volume would either run short or quietly cut it. Naming the origins instead — including the ones that are not American — is the honest version of that constraint.
For anyone buying on origin, the takeaway is specific rather than general: the balms, creams and lip care are the American-made part of this catalogue.
Shop Savannah Bee Company products
The beeswax body care is where the US-manufacturing claim sits — hand creams, healing balms and lip care. The honey is sold on varietal and source rather than on origin.
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Savannah Bee Company questions
Is Savannah Bee honey made in the USA?
Not necessarily, and the company does not claim it is. Savannah Bee sells honey by varietal and describes some of it as “sourced from wildflower fields around the world.” The US-made claim covers the body care line, not the honey.
Which Savannah Bee products are made in the USA?
The body care. Savannah Bee’s product pages state “Every body care product we sell is made in the USA” — that covers the beeswax hand creams, healing balms, lip care and the gift sets built from them.
Where is Savannah Bee Company based?
Savannah, Georgia. The company runs a flagship store at 104 West Broughton Street in Savannah and a production and showroom campus on Wilmington Island.
When was Savannah Bee Company founded?
2002. The company’s own wholesale page states that Ted Dennard founded Savannah Bee Company that year.