“I’m coming down from my propolis high,” Sarah Grueneberg said shortly after we arrived at Spiaggia. She and her staff had been experimenting with the pungent bee byproduct all day, with unexpected ...

“Nobody ever asks about that!” says Daniel Sullivan, owner of Shipwreck Honey in Seattle, his gleaming impishly behind black plastic-frame glasses. I beam with equal enthusiasm; I’ve been on a quest ...

The healing properties of propolis -- a mixture of resin and wax made by honey bees to seal and sterilize their hives -- have been known for many years. But its use in medicine and food supplements ...

Forget long names you can’t pronounce and ingredients you don’t know and stick with one of nature’s oldest skincare remedies.

BACKGROUNDPropolis is a resin made by bees to seal openings in the bee hive and prevent microbial growth. It consists mostly of wax, bee saliva and extracts from plants and trees visited by the bees.

Production of bees wax, propolis, pollen, royal jelly, pedigree queen bees, package bees and renting out honey bee colonies for crop pollination are some of the potential areas of apicultural ...