From the honeycomb to your home
My story
I’m Brooke, it’s nice to meet you.
I am the artisan behind Charleston Bee Works.
I started Charleston Bee Works in 2021, a year we were all thinking about indoor air quality. I wanted healthier options for burning candles inside our family home so I did some reading and taught myself to work with beeswax. Since then I have built a strong relationship with local beekeepers and continue to grow and evolve as a chandler and maker of handcrafted soaps and body products.
A bit about me: I am Appalachian with a splash of bourbon. Raised in southeastern Kentucky, I received my higher education and did my second growing up in central Kentucky’s horse and bourbon country where I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Transylvania University and a Master of Public Administration degree from Eastern Kentucky University. My husband and I spent a brief stint in Asheville, NC, where our first son was born. After a decade working in the non-profit and public sector I decided to be a fulltime mom.
We moved to West Virginia’s capital city in the spring of 2020 (what a fun time!), and this is where we are raising our three sweet boys.
I love outdoor recreation and naughty dogs. I love to grow things, make things and bake things. I strive to provide a healthy home for my family and hope I can help you do the same.
The Benefits of Beeswax
I love burning candles in my home, but as I learned more about 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 a subtle natural honey scent that doesn’t overpower a table setting.
As a body product beeswax helps protect your skin from irritants while 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 centuries. I use honey in my soap because it is a natural moisturizer and deep pore cleanser.
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