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Candle recommendation

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Stillness Thu 04-Dec-25 14:16:25

Can anyone recommend a good company for selling pure bees wax candles please? Some are so expensive! I’ve never liked the rather toxic flames of standard candles and now I have some respiratory issues, I find bees wax much nicer to burn and inhale. Thank you.

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NotSpaghetti Mon 08-Dec-25 12:16:50

My husband used to keep bees and yes, beeswax seems expensive... but wax production is a highly specialized task performed only by the young worker bees.
They make it between about day 12 and day 21 of their life (I think I read that it's normally only for a week).
Each bee can only produce a maximum of 10 milligrams in this time.

Wax honeycomb is made by thousands of bees over quite a long period.

It's not really expensive in these terms!

I hope someone comes along with suggestions... but bear in mind that if it's too cheap it's probably not real.

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Tenko Mon 08-Dec-25 12:24:00

Have you looked into soya wax candles? Lots of companies do them .

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