Zuzana Kopanicová has always loved candles and always had a burning candle in her household. However, when she found out that toxic substances are emitted into the air when burning paraffin, a ...

This year during Chanukah, it might be a good idea to consider using beeswax candles to light the menorah. According to Debby de Moulpied, founder and president of Bona Fide Green Goods in New ...

The soft glow at the Nordic state dinner at the White House this spring came from a little candle company in Santa Cruz, Calif. The pure beeswax pillar candles burning atop rows of tall, beveled ...

Scented, unscented. Soy, beeswax, paraffin. Taper, pillar, votive. Gone are the days when candles were used for purely functional purposes of providing light. Nowadays the waxy products are gaining ...

A group of children try their hands at baking beeswax candles during the Winterlight Faire held Dec. 6 at Prairie Moon Waldorf School, 1853 E. 1600 Road. 5-year-old Aidric Schwermann, of Lawrence, ...

Beeswax is useful in a variety of applications, from health and beauty products to candles and home items. But what is beeswax exactly and how is it made? Beeswax is the miracle of the beehive. The ...

Beeswax candle-making is an ancient practice, started by Egyptian and Roman civilizations of millennia past. As with all great and simple arts, it has stood the test of time to be embraced by a new ...

On a chilly December afternoon, a vat of molten beeswax heated inside a water-jacketed tank, smelling slightly of honey, while candles stood on trays ready to be packed in boxes. In the next room, ...

A nearly four-decade career in commercial beekeeping led a Ferndale man and his wife to start a beeswax candle company in their retirement years. Brian and Ann Barbata, owners of Golden Bee ...