This balm works extremely well. I just heard that archeologists found a Roman-era jar in the ground that had almost this same formulation in it. You have to be so careful with honey. Quite a bit of what is sold in grocery stores is fake. We buy from local producers at the farmer's market. That manuka variety is crazy expensive! My wife was using that for a while. Voting with our dollars is one of the last real powers we have left.