Latest News — Manuka 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's nothing like the scent of warm beeswax and we've been surrounded by it today as we collected and lightly filtered the beeswax from our latest harvest of Manuka (also known in Australia as leptospermum and/or jellybush beeswax). This picture shows the Manuka beeswax as it slowly cools back to room temperature in 10kg molds. Manuka beeswax is not as yellow as other beeswax harvests and when it hardens has a colour that is more pale olive than bright yellow. We keep our Manuka wax separate from the other beeswax harvests as it's a limited and specialty natural product that...

There's something really special about Australian beeswax, not just the gentle honey aroma but also all the great things it can be used for. Beeswax from here is also some of the purest in the world thanks to Australia still being free of varroa mite. This pesky, destructive bug has forced many beekeepers around the world (including New Zealand, the US, Asia and Europe) to use miticides in their hives to stay on top of the pest. Luckily, Australia has managed to avoid the varroa mite invasion so far, so we don't need to use any chemicals to treat it.   Did you know beeswax will...