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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.

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...

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...

There are so many wonderful qualities to pure Australian beeswax and manuka honey but we only learned about the benefits of camel milk when Summer Land Camels came to us at The BeeKeeper® for large slabs of our NSW forest-harvested 100% pure beeswax. What did they need beeswax for? For use in their very special Camel Milk Lip Conditioner. A lot of customers love our beeswax for all sorts of uses (beeswax candles, beeswax foodwraps, encaustic painting, traditional copper art, beeswax furniture polish, didgeridoo mouthpiece conditioning and plenty more), but for a while now we've enjoyed knowing our bee's hardwork is also being...