What is <<BiOlive>> beeswax
Beeswax is produced by young workers bees, 10-15 days old, from special glands and it is used by them in order to build honeycombs.
Beeswax in Greece
Beeswax in Greece
Beeswax
has a long tradition in the Greek culture. The first references
are in the
Odyssey, where Ulysses
(Odysseus) used beewax
in order to
cover his ears from the Siren's song. What is more
Daedalus used beeswax in order to build his wings and fly from his prison.
Beeswax was
used in ancient Greece
as a medicine in
order to heal burns,
rushes, traumas, dermatitis, ear
infections and stomatitis. What is more it was used in cosmetics. Later, the beeswax was utilized by the Greek Orthodox
Monks in making candles and therapeutic creams and balsams. Especially, the
Greek Monasteries in Mount Athos, have developed recipes using beeswax, olive
oil and herbs such is incense or thymes and propolis in order to make herbal,
biological, organic creams.
Our
company, respecting this tradition makes natural, traditional creams and balms
made by these ingredients. Our company is one of the few that possess official
free certificate licence by the Greek National Organisation of Medicines.
