Human knowledge of the problems of nutrition, medicine and defense bodies of the bee products mostly come from human curiosity will be the relationship of bees and flowers. Propolis is a non-polar part of the honey. If honey is readily soluble in water, can be mixed with water (polar), propolis is not the case, are similar to oil, balm or wax, insoluble in water and only received the substances would dissolve in it. However, propolis can be mixed with honey, because the nature of a thick honey.
Propolis is a honey bee accessory, purposely built by worker bees for honeycomb becomes sticky to each other. The materials used to build the propolis is a mixture of vegetable gums, resin exudate, faded leaves were selected based on the instinct of bees, germination, pollen, beeswax, and enzymes that exist in the saliva of bees whose main function is used to protect the entrance to its nest at the same time sterilize every bee is about to go into the nest, also prevent penetration of unwanted air pollution, inhibits the growth of bacteria and fungi and the nature of magic, which serves as a balm for wrapping the carcasses of animals killed in the nest (a kind of mummy process), therefore make propolis possess more "unique" than honey itself.