Honeybees make beeswax in the course of their work. They sip nectar and collect resins and pollen, creating honey, propolis and wax for use in hive building, brood rearing and feeding. The wax is used to build honeycomb, which is strong, yet light—perfect for storing honey.

Beeswax comes from a spot on the bee’s abdomen, extruding in tiny, uniformly shaped cakes, which the bee chews to soften and connect to the growing honeycomb. 

When honey is collected from the hive, the sealed honeycomb is opened by using a warm knife to melt and scrape off the top coat of wax. The honey is whirled from the comb in a centrifuge and the wax comb is either returned to the hive to be reused by the bees, or is melted into cakes and used for candles, furniture waxes, or cosmetics. 

Beeswax comes in colors ranging from nearly white to pale gold, to brown. The color in beeswax comes from the nectars and pollens brought in by the bees; beeswax tends to darken as it ages. 

Safe. Renewable. Green. Healthy.

Unlike paraffin, beeswax gives off no harmful chemicals or smoke when it burns. 

Unlike paraffin, beeswax doesn’t require off-shore drilling, or refining. It’s environmentally safe and always in production.

Beeswax is a natural air purifier. Burning beeswax produces negative ions which bind to particles in the air (such as dust, dander and pollen): the now-heavier particles drop to the floor, leaving the air cleaner than it was before.