Beeswax Candle Making Kits

Our Make Your Own kit contains sheets of 100% pure beeswax, wick and easy to follow instructions for rolling dinner taper candles.

10 x 20cm square sheets of honeycomb wax
Length of wick long enough to roll 10 x 20cm Taper candles with 1cm of wick sticking out the top of the candle (please cut accurately)!

Suitable for big kids and little kids!

Why not start your next dinner party by getting your guests to roll a candle (it takes less than 2 minutes) to then light the evening?

Or, cut each sheet of wax in half for kid's to roll a candle at your next children's birthday party.

We've even sent off kits for Hen's Parties/Bridal Showers as an alternative (or in addition) to "playing games"!

Bees (and beekeepers) consider wax to be clean if it is free from dead insects. However, a beeswax candle will only burn properly if the wax is also free from dust/dirt.

Considering beehives sit in dusty fields, the wax from beekeepers always has a lot of dust in it. All the wax used in Queen B candles (and the wax we sell) is triple distilled/clarified... melted, washed in boiling water, allowed to settle (whilst molten) for 22 hours and then filtered through a 300 micron filter!

You get to benefit from our 12 years of experience in beeswax candle-making.

Beeswax blocks are also commonly used to make lip balms, wax the mouthpiece of a didgeridoo, on dreadlocks, irons and to make draws run smoothly... if you have another interesting use, let us know!

Our Make Your Own kit contains sheets of 100% pure beeswax, wick and easy to follow instructions for rolling dinner taper candles.

10 sheets of 10cm x 20cm sheets of honeycomb wax
Length of wick long enough to roll 10 x 10cm Taper candles with 1cm of wick sticking out the top of the candle (please cut accurately)!

Particularly suitable for little kids!

There are only two ingredients in a Queen B beeswax tealight candle - pure Australian beeswax and a cotton wick. You need to get both right to have a tealight that burns well.

The biggest challenge we faced (as we already had a deep understanding of beeswax) was finding the perfect wick for a beeswax tealight.  We were told by the owner of Northern Light candles - who had been selling beeswax blended with macadamia nut oil candles for years - that it was impossible.  It turns out that with a lot of humility, observation and tenacity, it was entirely possible.  We see he has now followed suit.^

Being candle-makers ourselves, we have never been in the business of selling beeswax candle-making supplies. As we've closed, and I've received many panicked phone calls, we're making a very limited quantity of wicks available in bags of ~500 wicks.

These wicks are exactly what we use.  They are coated in beeswax.  Of course, how your tealights burn will also depend on the beeswax you are using and how well it has been cleaned. 

Our metal cups are made with a significantly thicker grade of aluminium than other tealight cups.  If you've bought our tealights in metal cups, you'll be getting that exact same cup.

Our clear cups are a V0 rated polycarbonate. Read more about why I made this exception to my loathing of plastic here.

These supplies do not come with personalised tuition or answers to the many questions that arise when you're making beeswax candles.  It is in the observation that the lessons - both candle-making and life - are learned.

^A cautionary note as you look for another beeswax candle supplier... if someone seems very full of themselves online, then take most of what they say with a grain of salt as everything they say will be slanted to make themselves look good.  Facts are facts and they don't lie.  Ask questions.  If they claim they have organic certification, ask to see a copy of it.  Trust your intuition.