Honey bees gather nectar from flowers. They beat their wings to create a breeze in the hive that evaporates the water out of nectar to make honey. As they nourish themselves with the honey and stored pollen they secrete beeswax in scales from a gland on their undersides. They turn around eight pounds of honey into a pound of beeswax. The candles from this beeswax burn evenly and completely in a pure way that emits no smoke or soot, like other types of wax. Burning beeswax candles actually improves indoor air quality by changing the ions in the air from positive to negative. These ions then bind to positively charged particles in the air, like smog and dust, and create a heavier particle which falls from the air and can be removed from home surfaces by dusting or vacuuming. Our beeswax candles are pure, naturally sweet-smelling, and made with cotton wicks.