Propolis is not a cheap ingredient to use - it's painstaking to harvest, and only a tiny amount is made by each hive throughout the year. Unfortunately, it means that many brands cut corners with the propolis they use in order to sell their products at a competitive price. Many propolis products available today are poor quality, with the propolis watered down with 'fillers' and lacking the beneficial compounds that makes propolis so unique

In all of our creams and balms - including Herstat® ointments and Dr. Sosnowski's Magic Cream® and ChafingHero® - we use our own trademarked technology when turning pure propolis into a concentrated extract. This means we actually create the propolis extract ourselves, using high-potency, carefully sourced hive extracts (from a small group of beekeepers we know and trust from a single region of Canada), and purified through a completely bespoke proprietary process that retains maximum levels of beneficial flavonoids