**Exhibit
      31.1**





**Certification
      of Chief Executive Officer**


**Pursuant
      to Rule 13(a) – 14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of
      1934**





I,
      Ronald
      S. Kaplan, as Chief Executive Officer of Action Products International, Inc.,
      certify that:





1.
            I
                have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Action Products
                International, Inc.;





2.
                Based
                    on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement
                    of a
                    material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
                    the
                    statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such
                    statements
                    were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered
                    by this
                    report;





3.
                Based
                    on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
                    information
                    included in this report, fairly present in all material respects
                    the
                    financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of
                    registrant as
                    of, and for, the periods presented in this report;





4.
                The
                    registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for
                    establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures
                    (as
                    defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the
                    registrant
                    and have:





(a)
      Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
      controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that
      material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated
      subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly
      during the period in which this report is being prepared;




(b)
      Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal
      control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to
      provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting
      and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance
      with generally accepted accounting principles;





(c)
      Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and
      procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness
      of the disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered
      by
      this report based on such evaluation; and




(d)
      Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over
      financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal
      quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially
      affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and





5.
                The
                    registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our
                    most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting,
                    to
                    the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of
                    directors (or persons performing the equivalent
                    functions):





(a)
      All
      significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation
      of
      internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
      adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and
      report financial information; and




(b)
      Any
      fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees
      who
      have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial
      reporting.





Date:
                August 13, 2008
            By:
            /s/
                RONALD S. KAPLANRonald
                S. Kaplan
              Chief
                Executive Officer
              (Principal
                Executive Officer)