Latest News — Australian beeswax

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...

If you'd like to buy honey including some delicious local ironbark honey, local manuka honey (from 5+ to 15+ highly medically active manuka) and beautiful pure Australian beeswax created by our bees, we'll be at the following markets in Port Macquarie NSW in April. There have been a few date changes as the wonderful organisers of The Foreshore Market unfortunately came down with covid so the normal Foreshore Market has been postponed until Saturday 16th April. You can find us in April at: Every Tuesday - Port Central Real Food Market Thu 14th April - Town Green Market Sat 16th...

PICTURE: Our latest harvest of pure Australian beeswax poured into 10kg moulds and cooling down. It's not a great state of affairs when a product that may not even be beeswax, formulated in China, can arrive in Australia and be packaged and sold with an Australian flag on it and called 'Beeswax'. Sounds crazy right? But that's exactly what's happening. The latest Australian Honey Bee Industry Council (AHBIC) newsletter discusses the fact that Australian beekeepers have been asking the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to stop these imports of adulterated or contaminated beeswax into Australia, or at least to set...