The Pure Beeswax
We use the finest beeswax from the Pacific Northwest and natural fiber wick. The beeswax is capping wax from one beekeeper and the color is a warm shade of amber. The color varies slightly due to the pollen, which is collected with the nectar from different types of flowers.
Beeswax is a renewable resource made by honeybees in honey production and in the pollination of our fruit and nut trees, clover, mint, and vegetables.
Pure beeswax naturally burns long and bright since it has the highest melting point of any other candle wax. Nothing needs to be added for beeswax candles to burn beautifully with the sweet scent of the beehive. Pure beeswax is non-toxic, hypo-allergenic and free of carcinogenic compounds found in paraffin wax.
Pure beeswax emits negative ions which attach to the positive contaminates such as dust, mold or odors in the air to help them settle out of the air and onto the ground or floor. Thus, burning pure beeswax candles will clear the air leaving it fresh as a spring rainstorm.
The Honey Bee
Beeswax is created from sunshine and flower nectar by industrious honeybees. They must visit approximately one million flowers to produce eight ounces of honey, which they must consume to produce one ounce of beeswax. Beeswax is the material that honeybees produce to form honeycomb, the cells that will nurture baby bees and store their food supplies. The worker bees secrete wax in the form of small scales from wax glands on their abdomen. Each scale is manipulated by the hind legs and passed to the mandibles to be masticated and then applied to the comb area under construction. As many as 200 worker bees cooperate in constructing one cell. The wax scales produced by honeybees are white and as the wax ages, the yellow hue is traceable to the pollen they bring from the flowers.
This complex process is truly incredible, a miracle. In each drop of beeswax and light of each candle, we sense the wholeness of the universe. We see honeybees, fields of flowers, nurturing earth, blue sky, warm sunshine, wind, and clouds bringing rain, all in natural harmony.
The Journey
The honeybees begin their year pollinating almond orchards in late winter. In spring they buzz in clover, mint and alfalfa fields. When their hives are full of honey in summer, they return to their honey house to have their honey extracted and wax collected. We are very fortunate to receive our wax from one beekeeper, who saves the beautiful capping wax for our candles. The honey and beeswax are collected with care to keep each colony healthy. When the bees make beeswax, it is white and the vibrant amber color is due to the pollen, which enters the hive on the honeybees' pollen baskets on their back legs. The pollen is taken to the hive and stored for food. They spend their winter at the bee yard where they are nurtured to be ready for another year of synthesis and transformation.
Through winter, plants hold latent vitality in buds, bulbs, seeds and roots; in spring they emerge to begin their growth. Trees, shrubs and plants then blossom and provide nectar for the honeybees to collect and convert into honey.
Plants and insects survive without us, but we are totally dependent on them.
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