Brazil → California

Propolis, from the rarest bees on Earth.

A rare Brazilian ingredient for

skincare

The good stuff your competitors can't get — small-batch, lab-tested, and traceable to the family that makes it.

Jataí · live

Real footage — Tetragonisca angustula, one of the smallest bees on Earth

🧪 Lab report every batch 📍 Traceable to the producer 🤲 Handcrafted in small batches
The 10-second version

So… what is this, exactly?

No chemistry degree required. Here's the whole idea in three cards.

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What's propolis?

It's the resin bees collect to seal and defend their hive — nature's antiseptic. People have used it on skin and for immunity for centuries. You've met it before in K-beauty serums and throat sprays.

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Why ours is different

Ours comes from Brazil's native stingless bees, kept by hand by small family beekeepers — never an industrial operation. It's richer, more complex, and there's simply very little of it.

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What you actually get

A clean liquid extract, ready to formulate. Drop it into serums, creams, capsules or supplements. Every batch ships with its own independent lab report.

Why brands love it

Why it goes on the front of the bottle

Not buried in the ingredient list — it's the reason someone reaches for your product.

A story people ask about

Native bees, the Brazilian forest, small families making it by hand. That's a conversation on the shelf — not a line in the fine print.

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Genuinely rare

There's barely any of it, and it can't be mass-produced. Real scarcity you can build a limited edition — and a premium — around.

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Proof in every bottle

An independent lab report ships with each batch: what's inside, that it's clean, where it's from. No "just trust us."

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Traceable to the source

Not a mystery blend from a commodity drum. Name the bee, the forest, and the family who made it — right on your label.

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Barely on the US market

Geopropolis is almost unknown to American buyers. Get in early, before it's on every shelf in the country.

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Made with you

Small batches, custom strengths, samples first. We build the ingredient around your formula — not the other way round.

vs. regular propolis

Same idea your customers trust — turned up to rare.

Everyone knows honeybee propolis by now. It's in toothpaste, throat sprays, and half the K-beauty aisle. It works — which is exactly why it's everywhere, and cheap. Geopropolis is its rare, handcrafted cousin.

The standard

Honeybee propolis

from Apis mellifera — the farmed honeybee

  • Produced all over the world
  • One domesticated bee, bred for honey
  • Roughly the same profile everywhere
  • A proven commodity — anyone can buy a drum of it
The rare one

Stingless-bee geopropolis

from Brazil's native Meliponinae — 500+ wild species

  • Handcrafted by small family beekeepers in Brazil
  • Hundreds of native species, each one unique
  • Carries compounds honeybee propolis doesn't have
  • So little exists it can't be mass-produced

Why it's richer

Same starting idea, very different recipe — and that's what you can taste in the chemistry.

Honeybee
propolis the usual
🌲 A few go-to trees + 🐝 Wax = Consistent & familiar
Stingless-bee geopropolis ours
🌺 Dozens of wild plants + 🪨 Clay, soil & minerals + 🐝 Wax = Richer & one-of-a-kind

Honeybees lean on a narrow set of resins — that's why their propolis is so uniform. Stingless bees forage a wild diversity of native plants and blend in earth and minerals. That "geo" (earth) is literally why it's called geo­propolis — and why the chemistry is deeper and more diverse.

If matcha is green tea turned up to premium, geopropolis is propolis turned up to rare.

Mandaçaia ~12 mm
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Jataí ~4 mm

This is how small "rare" gets.

That's a Jataí bee at true scale next to a Mandaçaia — one of the smallest bees on Earth. A colony makes only a tiny amount of geopropolis, a fraction of what a honeybee hive produces. You can't factory-farm that — and that's the whole point.

Meet the extracts

Sold by species, like single-origin coffee

Each extract is one bee, one forest, one profile — never an average, never a blend. Here are the two we're opening first.

The crowd-pleaser

Mandaçaia

Melipona quadrifasciata · Atlantic Forest, Brazil

The safe, science-backed first choice.

  • The most-studied stingless bee out there — 50+ research papers behind it
  • Loaded with antioxidants (flavonoids & phenols)
  • A confident starting point if this is all new to you
Liquid extract Single-origin Lab report included
The rare drop

Jataí

Tetragonisca angustula · one of the world's smallest bees

The ultra-exclusive, blink-and-it's-gone batch.

  • Tiny bee, tiny harvests — only a little exists each year
  • For a hero product or a true limited edition
  • Released in small quarterly allocations only
Liquid extract Very limited Lab report included
How it works

Getting a sample is the easy part

No account, no catalog maze. Four steps from "curious" to "in your formula."

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Tell us your idea

A quick note on what you're making and the vibe you're after.

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Get a sample

We send a sample and its lab report so you can see exactly what you're working with.

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Formulate & test

Try it in your product. We're happy to talk shop on use levels and pairing.

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Order what you need

When you're ready, we ship from Brazil with full documentation, every batch.

💧 Liquid extract 🧴 Plays nice in water-based formulas 🤲 Small-batch, made to order 📄 Lab report every batch ✈️ Ships Brazil → US
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Made for people who actually care about their craft.

We'd rather work with a handful of makers who obsess over every ingredient than with someone just chasing the next profitable product. If you're building something you truly believe in — for people and the planet, not only the bottom line — you're exactly who we want to work with.

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Indie skincare & cosmetics

A hero ingredient no one else on the shelf can claim.

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K-beauty brands

You made propolis famous. This is its premium next chapter.

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Supplements & nutraceuticals

A rare botanical with real, measurable antioxidants.

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Compounding pharmacies

Documented, lab-verified, and ready for your supplier file.

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Premium wellness

A provenance story that's actually true — and worth telling.

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Functional foods & drinks

Anywhere a rare, natural botanical makes the story better.

Goes into…

Serums Face oils Masks Moisturizers Cleansers Lip & oral care Tinctures Capsules Gummies Functional drinks Balms & salves
For the curious (and your chemist)

Okay — a little science. 🧪

You don't need any of this to love it. But here's what's actually going on, in plain English.

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It's an antioxidant powerhouse

Geopropolis is packed with flavonoids and phenols — the same family of antioxidants people chase in green tea and berries. Stingless-bee versions tend to test especially high.

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Compounds honeybees don't make

Because the bees forage so many wild plants and blend in earth, geopropolis carries benzophenones that ordinary propolis simply doesn't — with antimicrobial and antioxidant activity in lab studies.

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And we measure all of it

Every batch goes to an independent, accredited lab. You get the real numbers — antioxidants, purity, safety — not a marketing claim.

What's in every lab report

Each batch ships with a Certificate of Analysis from an outside, accredited lab — not a spec sheet we typed up ourselves.

  • Which antioxidant compounds are present (HPLC)
  • Total flavonoids & total phenols
  • Cleanliness check (yeast, mould, bacteria)
  • Pesticide screening
  • Heavy metals (for partner accounts)
Stingless Bee Labs · Lab Report Batch MQ-2025-04
ProductMandaçaia Geopropolis Extract
BeeMelipona quadrifasciata
OriginSanta Catarina · Brazil
Total phenols142.3 mg GAE/g
Total flavonoids38.6 mg QE/g
CleanlinessPass — <10 CFU/g
PesticidesPass — none detected
LabAccredited · ISO 17025

An example batch. Every order gets its own report like this one.

A quick, honest note: the research so far is early and mostly lab-based (in vitro). We share it to explain the ingredient — not as a medical or health claim. You know your market's rules better than anyone; we'll give you the documents to back it up.

Let's get a sample in your hands.

We're opening a small group of first partners — brands and makers who want to work with geopropolis before anyone else in the US. Tell us what you're dreaming up.

  • A free sample, with its lab report
  • Custom batch size and strength for your formula
  • First dibs on the rare Jataí batches
  • Your bee, forest & family — named in your brand story

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