Beeswax Facts


BEESWAX VERSUS PARAFFIN



 
 BEESWAX CAPPINGS
Beeswax is produced by honey bees from the pure and abundant Natural Nectars of Mother Nature’s Flowers. Bees transform the pollen and nectars of flowers into a most amazing array of products including honey, royal jelly, propolis, bee pollen and beeswax. Cappings beeswax is the thin seal of wax that the bee places over the honeycomb cell after it has filled it with honey. This hair thin seal is then removed by the beekeeper just prior to centrifugally extracting the honey from the frames of honeycomb cells. Remember, only a candle made of this pure, bee-produced cappings wax, and nothing else, will actually emit negative ions.To learn more about Negative IonsCLICK HERE

 
 PARAFFIN
Paraffin is a petroleum based by-product. It is known that paraffin starts as
the grayish black sludge which oozes out of the backside of the oil
refineries. It is the substance left over after producing many of the other
common petroleum products such as gas, oils , pavement, etc. This
grayish-black crud is then bleached with a 100% strength bleach which creates
toxic dioxins while changing the colour to white (the bleach we use in our
laundry is only at a 10% strength). This white ooze is then solidified with
acrolyn( a proven carcinogen ) to create the solid white paraffin blocks
everyone is accustomed to. The different chemicals are used to make paraffin
burn a little longer or look a little prettier. Unfortunately, the end result
is a very toxic, carcinogenic product. Paraffin wax is then sold to many
companies and people who then add various other 'texturizing' chemiclas,
artificial dyes for colour and synthetic fragrances.

 
 SYNTHETIC FRAGRANCES
When synthetic fragrances are burned, they produce toxic fluoro-carbons(a gas used as a propellant in aerosols, thought to be modifying the ozone layer in the stratosphere, thereby allowing more harmful solar radiation to reach the earth's surface-Webster's Dictionary) and other polluting by-products. Inhalation of these fluoro-carbons damages the receptors in our nasal passages that detect scent. In the long-term, it diminishes the overall abilities of our olfactory senses by ‘wearing them out’, which is one of the reasons why many people seem to ‘require’ increasingly stronger smelling candles, etc., to experience any enjoyable aromas at all! Remember, they don’t squeeze pure vanilla pods, at $14.00 each, into those sweet smelling, pretty coloured candles. Artificial vanilla fragrance is actually piperonal, which is lice killer. All in all, you have a product that adversely affects us in many ways.

 
 AMBIENCE AND BALANCE
Pure cappings beeswax candles all burn with a golden flame, a luminous halo and a non-perfumed aroma, reflective of the flowers and honey that the wax came from. This soft aroma emitted by beeswax has actually been proven to relax and de-stress people. One of the reasons beeswax was held sacred throughout most of the ancient eras is it's ability to clear the air, so to speak, of unharmonious energy. This does not require any ‘spells’ or ‘special incantations’, just light these candles, breathe, relax and enjoy.

Paraffin burns with a harsh white flame and the only aroma coming from it is synthetic and somewhat toxic. Energetically, paraffin contaminates the air, the environment that it is burned in and the people who are exposed to it.

 


Cheers to the honey bee for making this
natural, non-toxic alternative to paraffin wax!


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