Ballot-flurin

The adventure of Ballot-flurin began in 1982, when Catherine Flurin, passionate of bees, had set up her first bee hives at the foot of the mountain range, the Pyrenees, with her partner Philippe Ballot, a beekeeper.

Unlike the productive beekeeping methods taught at that time (intensive breeding, antibiotics, pollutants used for weeding), Catherine developed l’Apiculture Douce®: a holistic method based on respect for bees, understanding their language and taking into account their natural biorhythm. The result of 30 years of research has led to l’Apiculture Douce® being recognised in France and around the world.

Catherine Flurin is the daughter of an ENT doctor, who, ahead of her time, already recommended her patients to use remedies from nature. Catherine Flurin became gradually interested in apitherapy, a natural and ancestral method of alternative medicine based on the virtues of products from the beehive (honey, propolis, royal jelly).

Catherine was convinced that it is possible to create effective, non-polluting formulations, improved by centuries of practice, and without the common side effects of active chemicals used in pharmaceutical substances. She made a collection of ancestral knowledge and adapted them to modern times. Ballot-Flurin then developed a first range of 100% natural care and hygiene products derived from the beehive.

All Ballot-flurin products are 100% organic and developed on the basis of beekeeping which takes into account solar, lunar and cosmic rhythms, e.g. for determining the most favorable time for harvesting of honey. Ballot-flurin also preserves the biodiversity of melliferous plants from which the bees nourish themselves.

In early 2007, the local manufacturing site expanded with the construction of a new bioclimatic building made from 100% natural materials to combat the greenhouse effect.

Today, the progress of the company in the field of l’Apiculture Douce®, the energetic apitherapy and its dynamisation are regularly cited and recognised in international congresses and conferences. They are official patents for processes in harvesting pollen and extracting propolis.