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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 12987" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Hi Sheryl Maree. NZ once had a busy propolis production side industry, but now that very cheap imported propolis is coming in the local commercial production has died. This is because the labour involved in collecting it costs more than what commercial buyers are now prepared to pay.</p><p></p><p>There are probably plenty of beekeepers around who still have their propolis collection mats stacked away at the back of their sheds somewhere, so if you seriously wanted some NZ produced propolis you could do that by private arrangement with an individual beekeeper, if you could get someone to produce some for you.</p><p></p><p>Something to bear in mind, propolis straight from the beehive is not pure, the bees blend it with beeswax, depending just what use they are putting it to. So to get the pure product the beeswax has to be filtered out, this is usually done by dissolving it in something that will dissolve the propolis but not the wax, and then reconstituting it. Normally done in a commercial process but could be done at home if you study up the method.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://beekeepertips.com/how-to-clean-propolis/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 12987, member: 13"] Hi Sheryl Maree. NZ once had a busy propolis production side industry, but now that very cheap imported propolis is coming in the local commercial production has died. This is because the labour involved in collecting it costs more than what commercial buyers are now prepared to pay. There are probably plenty of beekeepers around who still have their propolis collection mats stacked away at the back of their sheds somewhere, so if you seriously wanted some NZ produced propolis you could do that by private arrangement with an individual beekeeper, if you could get someone to produce some for you. Something to bear in mind, propolis straight from the beehive is not pure, the bees blend it with beeswax, depending just what use they are putting it to. So to get the pure product the beeswax has to be filtered out, this is usually done by dissolving it in something that will dissolve the propolis but not the wax, and then reconstituting it. Normally done in a commercial process but could be done at home if you study up the method. [URL unfurl="true"]https://beekeepertips.com/how-to-clean-propolis/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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