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Beeswax

Beeswax is a remarkable natural substance that science still does not fully understand. It is a by-product of honey, which originates in flowers and is made by the youngest honey bees in the colony. These young bees haven't yet become foragers for the plant nectar that ultimately becomes honey. To produce wax, the bees gorge themselves on honey, linking themselves together by the hundreds, and after several hours, the wax begins to flow from pockets on their abdomens. Each bee then scrapes off the wax with her legs and chews it into soft pellets. She then uses them to fashion exquisitely engineered honey-comb cells, with walls of wax that average only 1/100th of an inch thick. This is one of the most efficient storage structures ever developed by any species, including man.

Paraffin

If you do some research, you will find that paraffin starts as a grayish-black sludge that oozes from the backside of the petroleum refineries. This petroleum by-product is bleached, creating dioxins, is processed and textured using carcinogenic chemicals, is colored with synthetic colorants and artificially scented with that which creates "CFS's". Remember, they don't squeeze flower juices into those sweet smelling candles. Burning paraffin produces toxic combustion by-products, many of which are known carcinogens. Breathing the fumes from bruning paraffin candles is essentially the same as breathing the exhaust fumes from a diesel engine.

Paraffin burns with positive ions creating black soot that coats your walls, funishings, curtains, not to mention your lungs and skin. Dozens of pages can be found on the internet related to the toxicity and carcinogenic effects of paraffin. While I am not promoting the dissolution of this industry, I do recommend that you make an informed choice based on facts for yourself and your family.

Positive Ions

Science has proven that anything floating in the air, be it in your home, office, or outdoors, is doing so because it is "positively" charged. This includes everything from dust and pollen to toxic residues and emissions coming from household furnishings, rugs, construction materials, to viruses, bacteria and germs. Even odors, such as food smells from cooking, household pets, mold, mildew, all remain smelly because they are positively charged. All the toxins become positively charged by static electricity, friction from walking across carpets or from the "dry", recycled air and heating systems we all use.

Negative Ions

The scientific principle at work here is that a proper balance of negative ions bind with the positive ions, creating complete molecules which have a heavier weight mass and a balanced charge. Hence the positive ions (toxins, dust, odors, etc.) no longer float, they simply fall to the ground.To rid your homes of positive ions, many people purchase expensive "Negative Ion Emitters", sometimes producing an over abundance of ozone, which can be harmful. When beeswax candles burn, the dust and toxic fumes from the air are convected through the flame, much like a catalytic converter. It has been scientifically proven that the only fuel known to mankind to produce a fully balanced negative ion is PURE UNADULTERATED BEESWAX. It makes perfect sense that Nature would provide us with the finest tool to create the healthy air we all long for.

Helpful Bees

Besides producing honey and beeswax, honey-bees pollinate about 30% of all the food produced for human consumption. Beeswax is a renewable resource and every year each colony produces about two pounds of this wonderful product.

Your Pure Beeswax Candles

Every candle is hand crafted and tapers are hand dipped, therefore, each one will be slightly different. All Beeswax used is from area beekeepers, supporting the local bee industry..
Candles vary in color and texture, as each fifteen pound block of beeswax is different, depending on the bee's forage. Because the beeswax is simply rendered, not refined, there are impurities in it and at times these may clog the wick. Simply cut the wick to one quarter to one half inch, relight and the candles will continue to burn.
To keep the candles from dripping burn them only until the melted wax reaches the outer wall, then put out the candle by drowning the wick, remeber to straighten the wick, and allow the candle to cool a few minutes before relighting. Any unburned wall of wax may be pushed into the melted wax for a complete burn. Beeswax burns at a higher temperature than paraffin, so protect your good glassware with metal containers, especially when burning votives.
Reduce, reuse and recycle by saving and reusing the metal tea-lite containers and then buying "refill" tea-lites.