I think a lot of homeopathic remedies are crap. When I am sick, I want real medicine that has lots of statistical data that it works. Anecdotal evidence is no evidence.
That being said, I am very pleased with the beeswax cream that I made. I have trouble with the skin on my feet and legs drying out in the winter. My shins and feet itch when the weather gets cold. I’ve been rubbing some of the beeswax cream into the parts that bother me, and it has done wonders.
The cream is beeswax and sweet almond oil.
The beeswax has honey in it and it also has bee venom. After I filter out the honey there is a bag of beeswax, dead bees and other junk form the comb. One time when I extracted honey, bees got at the sticky mess left behind, and several hundred bees died when they got into the pails and never left.
I heat the wax in a double boiler. The dead bees are heated with the wax. I filtered out the solid stuff and then I let the wax harden on the top. I add water to rinse out the honey and imputities, and then heat it and filter it again. Repeat. In the end I get bright sunshine yellow beeswax that smells of honey because I can’t rinse out all the honey.
The wax has honey in it. The beeswax dissolves the venom in the dead bees and a very small amount of that remains in the wax.
The cream moisturizes (the almond oil), it protects (with a layer of beeswax) and it treats the skin (with the antibiotic effects of honey), and I think it helps my gout (a form of arthritis) with the bee venom. My gout completely went away after a few treatments.
I know my legs are better and I think the cream did that. I am less sure that the cream helped the gout, but I am not counting it out.
I am not selling the cream – it is too complicated to make and actually costs quite a bit, making it too expensive to sell at a profit. Also I don’t want to go through the trouble of making labels for it.
At Christmas friends and family might get cream and lip balm, but I am sure that 90% of them will throw it out.
