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What is Beeswax?

What is Beeswax?

Have you ever wonder where beeswax comes from?

Beeswax is produced by honey bees. Yep, honey bees.

If you were a bee, beeswax would serve you as a house, a nursery and a food pantry. Very efficient. 

Beeswax consists of over 280+ different compounds and to produce it, bees must consume 4kg of honey to make 450g of wax... It’s pretty special!

Beekeepers collect beeswax from cappings of extracted honey, as well as maintenance chores of changing over of frames. Its colour varies from nearly white to golden yellow. We strain, wash, melt and filter with great care.

There are many uses for beeswax, here are just a few:

Candles, Cosmetics, Medicinal Creams & Salves, Craft, Soap Making, Conditioner for Furniture, Lubricant for Doors & Hinges, Crayons, Waterproofing Leather etc.

Melbourne City Rooftop Honey sells beeswax, but it is readily available. Like the honey hive it comes from though, local is always best! 

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Science Notes
Bee's wax is secreted from 8 wax producing glands on the worker bee’s abdomen.

Bees will hang in strings and as wax is extruded from the glands, they then pass it along the chain, chew it & mould it along the way to build those familiar
hexagon-shaped cells.