Pure Irish beeswax is a premium product made by our honeybees to store their honey in the hive. We produce our own beeswax which is 100% natural. Also, it is made from a renewable source which makes it sustainable and eco-friendly. The wax has been filtered to remove impurities but has not been treated in any way and is chemical free.
Beeswax has anti-fungal and antibacterial properties.
Beeswax has many uses. It makes the most beautiful candles and is also a common ingredient in everyday items such as cosmetics and grooming products, soaps, pharmaceuticals, food, arts and crafts, musical instruments, and their maintenance, woodcare and leather care products.
Pure beeswax may develop a film, or bloom, which can easily be removed by buffing with a soft cloth.
Contains 100% pure Irish beeswax.
2 x beeswax blocks (30g each)
How beeswax is made
Bees secret beeswax from their wax glands. Honeybees have four pairs of wax glands on the underside of their abdomen. Once secreted, the brittle flakes or scales of wax will be moved to the jaws or mandibles of the bee. They will chew and mold it to make it soft and pliable. The bees will then passed on the wax to other worker bees who will use it for building comb. In order to make just one single gram of wax, the bees will need to produce approximately 1100 flakes of wax. The wax-flakes are initially clear and odourless. It is only later that the wax will adopt its characteristic colour and smell. This happens when pollen and propolis gets worked into the wax. So, would you like to know more about the beeswax we use and how our bees make it? Read about it here.
For ideas on how to use our pure Irish beeswax read our Blog post – Simple 1:1:1 Beekeeper’s Salve recipe
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