Propolis lozenges are the desk-drawer format of the hive’s famous resin: Bee Health blends purified propolis into an old-fashioned sugar lozenge — raw Barbados sugar, glucose, molasses and a warming thread of aniseed oil — that dissolves slowly wherever the day finds your throat working overtime. 114 g per pack.

Propolis, briefly and honestly

Propolis is the material honey bees make from tree resins to seal and protect the hive — a natural blend of resin, essential oils, waxes and bioflavonoids, and one of nature’s richest bioflavonoid sources, treasured across European folk tradition for centuries. Bee Health, the category’s global specialist, guarantees its bioflavonoids are naturally occurring with nothing synthetic added, and batch-tests for potency and quality — the discipline that separates tested tradition from souvenir honey-shop stock.

Why the lozenge format earns its place

A lozenge does what capsules can’t: it takes its time. Slow dissolution keeps the propolis where the throat actually is, wrapped in the old-remedy comfort of molasses-dark sweetness and aniseed warmth — the flavour profile of every serious European throat sweet since the apothecary era. No water, no spoons; it’s the format for the lecture, the rehearsal, the call-centre shift.

What’s in them

Raw Barbados sugar, glucose, molasses, purified propolis resin and aniseed oil — a five-line label from another era, worn proudly. Being sugar-craft, these are lozenges in the traditional sense: mind them accordingly if you’re managing sugar intake, and treat them as throat sweets rather than snacks. Not recommended for anyone with a tree-resin allergy; bee-product cautions apply as ever.

The propolis wardrobe

The faithful build their season across formats: capsules for the daily constant, the winter mixture by the kettle, the spray in the bag — and lozenges in the desk, glovebox and coat pocket, where slow comfort is the entire assignment.

Frequently asked questions

Taste? Dark-sugar warmth, gentle aniseed, the resinous propolis note underneath — the grown-up throat sweet, unmistakably.

How many per day? As comfort requires within sensible sugar arithmetic — they’re a food-format product; the pack is the guide.

Children? Hard sweets and small children are their own caution before any ingredient question — parental judgement and pharmacist advice govern.

The sound-of-winter test

You can hear the season this pack was built for: the office chorus of clearing throats, the classroom cough rounds, the singer warming up in a cold sacristy. Lozenges are civilisation’s answer to those months — comfort measured in minutes of slow dissolution rather than milligrams — and propolis is the traditional passenger that turns the sweet into a ritual with lineage. Keep the pack where winter actually happens to you: the desk, the car, the choir bag. And when the whole household is rotating through the season’s ailments, remember the honest boundary — persistent or severe symptoms belong to your doctor, while lozenges belong to comfort, which they deliver superbly.

Sugar-free version? Not in this classic line — the sugar-craft IS the format; the capsules are the sugar-free lane.

How long does a pack last? A 114 g bag paces a normal winter’s commutes and calls comfortably — heavy-season households simply keep two.

Melt in a hot car? Sugar-craft dislikes August gloveboxes — winter product, winter storage.

Aniseed — love-it-or-leave-it? It’s the classical throat-sweet note for good reason: warming, clearing and nostalgic; sceptics usually convert by the third lozenge.

Vegan? Propolis is a bee product by definition — the whole hive shelf sits outside strict vegan lines.

Why “purified” propolis resin? Raw propolis carries hive debris — purification is what makes it food-grade while keeping the character.

Delivery in Malta & Gozo

€6 delivery, free over €40 across Malta and Gozo, or collection from St Paul’s Bay.