Natural products for your home and body.

I love burning candles in my home, but as I learned more about indoor air quality and the toxins released by burning paraffin-based wax I realized I wanted something healthier. Looking for cleaner alternatives, I found beeswax.

Beeswax is an amazing product.

As a candle it naturally cleanses the air and emits a sunshine glow that adds ambiance to any room. It has an amazing natural honey scent that doesn’t overpower a table for a lovely setting.

As a body product beeswax helps protect your skin from irritants while still letting skin breathe, and is known to be soothing, anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial.

As a resource beeswax is natural, sustainable and renewable. Beeswax is produced by worker bees for the purpose of shaping the honeycomb where the honeybees live, work and reproduce. A healthy hive may produce much excess wax. When beekeepers extract honey from their hives surplus wax remains and is cleaned and melted into bars for sale.

And all hail honey. Who doesn’t love honey? Besides being a buttermilk biscuit staple, honey has been used for medicinal purposes for….well, forever. I use honey in my soap because it is a natural moisturizer and deep pore cleanser.

Charleston Bee Works exclusively purchases beeswax and honey from local, West Virginia-based beekeepers. I strongly believe in supporting local farmers and take pride in creating products with beeswax from family apiaries. Both the beeswax and honey used in my candles and body products was created by Mountain State honeybees.

It is the goal of Charleston Bee Works to have a light environmental impact. For this purpose I am continually researching the most ethically-sourced ingredients and packaging for my products.