Anna Featherstone
Australian Beeswax vs Paraffin Candles: Why Choosing Natural Matters
Not all candles are created equal. Discover why switching from paraffin to pure Australian beeswax candles can be better for your health, your home, and the planet.
Anna Featherstone
Wax Candies: A Sweet and Surprising Use for Our Australian Manuka Beeswax
Have you heard about wax candies? Neither had we until recently! A lot passes us by when our heads are in the hives out in the bush, but thankfully our beeswax customers who are mostly balm and candle makers, crafters, creators and artisans keep us up to date. So yes, craftspeople make all sorts of things with our beeswax, but it’s the first time we’ve heard of it being used for what are basically sweet syrups contained in fun-shaped beeswax lollies… or candies as they say in the US. You can buy our bees' manuka beeswax and beeswax from our...
Anna Featherstone
Pure Australian Manuka honey for your Autumn niggles & new times for the Real Food Market
A few degrees drop in temperature and it's suddenly just a few weeks until Autumn! That's why the Real Food Markets in Port Macquarie has changed hours to 10am-4pm. If you're a local or lucky to be visiting this lovely area, you can now come down each Tuesday for your honey refills, to try our honey harvests and to buy your manuka honey direct from us, the beekeepers who harvest it. If you can’t make Tuesdays, you can also find us monthly at Port Macquarie's The Foreshore Market, as well as buy our honey from some fabulous stockists or buy our...
Daryl Brenton
Australian beeswax great for all sorts of uses...including recycled wine bottle candles!
So fulfilling to see our pure beeswax being used by artisans around Australia to craft and create beautiful beeswax products. Annika Gollasch of Lillebo Creations is a recycler and upcycler who uses our beeswax to produce stunning recycled wine bottle candles. She even uses the wine bottle lids to make little tealights! At The Beekeeper® our bees produce beautiful wax from a variety of floral sources, and then we humans gently filter it before pouring it in to moulds to set. Beeswax is the most beautiful, natural product, and has it all over soy, palm and synthetic paraffin. The beautiful scent of beeswax alone is...
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