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Alden Marshall wrote:
 
>Propolis cream. Make a mixture of about 40% Beeswax to about 60% olive
>oil. Mix over heat, put a few drops on cool surface and check
>consistency. Add wax or oil which ever way you want to go. Take some of
>this nice hard propolis or some others can be hardened in the freezer, I
>prefer the former. Grind in coffee grinder to a real fine powder and mix
>in the cream. you decide the ratio. I prefer a 20 -40% powder myself.
>Once you have the cream made you can thin it with oil without reheating.
>This stuff does wonders for lots of things.
>                Regards,
>Alden Marshall
 
Alden,
 
1) What things does this work on?
2) Wouldn't the propolis in the mixture stain the skin?
3) Wouldn't the proplis gum up a coffee grinder?  How do you clean it
afterwards?
 
Thanks, Ed

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