Bee Product Benefits
Honey
Natural Sweetener
Natural sweetener, cooking and baking ingredient, source of carbohydrates and antioxidants
Propolis
Natural Antibiotic
Natural antibiotic, wound healing, immune system booster
Honeycomb
Health Supplement
Edible, health supplement, natural sweetener
Royal Jelly
Health Supplement
Nutrient-rich supplement, anti-inflammatory, skin care ingredient
Beeswax
Candle-Making
Candle-making, cosmetics, furniture polish, DIY modeling clay, agriculture, art, and industry
Bee Pollen
Health Supplement
Nutrient-rich supplement, anti-inflammatory
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Raw Honey
What Is It?
Everyone knows the characteristic sweet golden taste of honey and it’s one of my favourite natural remedies. Honey is produced when bees consume plant nectar and mix it with various enzymes. They then regurgitate this partly digested substance, now honey, and store it in their hive for a quick source of energy.
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Health Benefits
Honey has antimicrobial, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and immune-boosting properties. It can soothe a sore throat and help fight the common cold, address or prevent seasonal allergies, as well as reduce your risk of H. pylori, a bacteria that attacks the stomach lining and can lead to ulcers. Not only is honey a great natural sweetener and good alternative to white sugar, it is a great remedy for burns. Honey can be directly applied to burns to prevent blistering and speed healing.
As an added bonus, honey is one of the few foods in the world that will never spoil.
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How to Use It:
Add raw honey to elixirs, smoothies, teas, marinades and sauces, baking, or have a little bit right off the spoon. Apply it straight to the skin for burns or wounds.
Bee Pollen
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What Is It?
Pollen is basically the sperm of the plant world. Yes, you read correctly. Bees collect it on their hind legs and bring it back to the hive, where it serves as food for the bees – they use it as their primary protein source.
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Health Benefits
Bee pollen is a very nutrient-dense bee product, packed with easily digestible protein, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, carbohydrates and fatty acids – it has most of the factors we need to thrive. It’s a real powerhouse! Pollen has anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial and anti-cancer properties, plus it helps heal wounds and protects the heart by lowering the amount of fats in the blood. Athletes have also used bee pollen in their training as it’s so nutrient-rich.
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How to Use It:
Add to elixirs and smoothies, sprinkle on top of oatmeal, dairy-free yogurt, granola or toast with nut butter.
Beeswax
What Is It?
Worker bees have wax glands that secrete beeswax used to make honeycombs in the hive. Bees fly roughly 6 times around the earth to yield one pound of beeswax.
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Health Benefits
Beeswax is antimicrobial and is very soothing to the skin.
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How to Use It:
Beeswax can be used externally mixed with olive oil, herbs, or essential oils to make salves. It’s commonly used to make beauty care products, candles (a clean-burning alternative to toxic paraffin candles), re-usable food wrap (a good plastic alternative!) and it’s used in natural wood treatments and for sealing cracks.