The soft glow and sweet, familiar aroma of 100% organic, natural beeswax candles bring warmth and peacefulness to any room in your home. But more importantly, unlike the vast majority of mass produced candles made using a toxic petroleum-based paraffin wax, these lovely beeswax candles do not release noxious indoor air pollutants when you burn them!
Green Home personally interviewed the manufacturers of this product in order to assess the quality of both the ingredients and the production process and concluded that these candles are the purest and most ethically produced candles on the market today. Further, due to Green Home's special relationship with the manufacturer, we are able to retail them at seriously low prices.
In short, we are quite proud to offer the finest USA made and harvested beeswax candles on the face of the earth at the most reasonable prices you will ever see. We hope you love them, too!
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BEESWAX INFORMATION
Beeswax is produced when honeybees consume honey. It takes about 8 1/2 lbs of honey to produce one pound of beeswax.
Honeybees collect nectar from approximately two million flowers to make one pound of honey, so nectar is collected from 17 million flowers to make 8 1/2 pounds of honey to make one pound of beeswax!
Beeswax is secreted in the form of a scale about the size of a pinhead by worker bees that are 12 to 18 days old. The worker honeybee has eight wax secreting glands under its abdomen. It takes about 800,000 scales to make one pound of beeswax.
The beeswax scale when first secreted is tasteless, odorless, and almost colorless. Beeswax obtains its "natural" color of light to golden yellow due to propolis and pollen collected by the honeybees. The distinctive fragrance of beewax is obtained from the propolis brought into the hive, and the storage of pollen and honey in the honeycomb.
Beeswax has a melting point between 146 and 149 degrees Fahrenheit.
Over time, beeswax will develop a whitish coating called bloom. This is the result of softer oils rising to the surface. Rubbing the candle with a soft cloth or warming with a hair dryer will remove candle bloom. Once removed, bloom will eventually reappear on pure beeswax. Bloom has no effect on how your beeswax candle will burn.
Burning of beeswax candles produces a white rounded flame, giving a wonderful warm glow.
For proper burning of beeswax candles, trim wick to 1/4" before burning each time. Keep burning candles away from drafts. Keep candle wick centered.
Pillar candles should burn for about one hour per inch in diameter. After extinguishing the candle flame and your candle has cooled warm to the touch, gently mold candle edges inward if needed with damp fingers.
We use only 100% cotton wick. No lead or metal wick is used in our candles.
Burn candles only in a fireproof container. Never leave a burning candle unattended. A burning candle needs your attention.
