Product Description Gentle Bees Fir Needle beeswax candle melts are made with pure beeswax from Texas honey bees and pure fir needle essential oil. Pure beeswax is healthy and produces negative ions that actually clean your air of odors, pollens, smoke, dust, dust mites, viruses and other allergens and hazards the only known fuel to do so. Beeswax candles leave your air fresher and cleaner. They are a true air purifier. Beeswax candles are the only candles for people with chemical sensitivities or allergies. Increasing negative ions in the air and on the body, such as when one bathes in water, improves mood and sense of wellbeing. With this simple recipe, here are the following benefits: Melts in candle burner 3 times longer than soy wax, improves air quality, and natural detoxification. Gentle Bees beeswax melts are designed and made in Austin-Texas, USA From the Manufacturer Beeswax is healthy for the environment Pure beeswax is healthy and produces negative ions that actually clean your air of odors, pollens, smoke, dust, dust mites, viruses and other allergens and hazards the only known fuel to do so. Beeswax candles and or candle melts leave your air fresher and cleaner. They are a true air purifier. Beeswax melts are the only candles and wax melts for people with chemical sensitivities or allergies. Beeswax has many uses Beeswax uses: 1) Lubricant for old furniture joints 2) Smooth movement for doors and windows. 3) Component for mustache creams. 4) Prevents bronze items from tarnishing. 5) Use as a rust prevention. 6) Furniture polish when mixed with linseed oil and mineral spirits in equal parts. 7) Covering cheeses and preservatives to protect from spoilage. 8) Conditioner for wood bowls and cutting boards. 9) Coat nails and screws to prevent wood from splintering. 10) Used by NASA with an enzyme to mop up oceanic oil spills. 11) Cake guitar bodies to boost longevity. 12) Coat tambourine surfaces for thumb roll playing technique. 13) Coat reeds for woodwinds to get a tight fit. 14) Egg painting in a Ukraine folk art of Pysanky. 15) An essential ingredient in Indian art of fabric dyeing called Batik printing. 16) Candles that dont drip and have no smoke. 17) In candy like gummy bears, worms and jelly beans. 18) To water proof leather. 19) Molten beeswax to polish granit counter tops. 20) To make crayons. 21) With palm oil for soap. The palm oil reduces scars and the wax a natural moisturizer. 22) Mix with palm wax for a natural hair remover. 23) To reduce bow string friction. 24) on whips to water proof. 25) in bullets. 26) With comfery and chick weed powder to alleviate itching. 27) make sunscreen 28) as a candle melt/ wax tart Scent.. Smells like Christmas Pure raw beeswax has a naturally sweet hint smell of honey. The pure and natural fir needle essential oil has a sweet floral smell also Quality Gentle bees beeswax is produced and made by honey bees in Texas, USA. Versatility Gentle Bees fir needle beeswax melts are convenient to use with candle warmers, make your own candles, or utilize our fir needle beeswax in your own craft projects and manufacturing needs. Save The Honey Bees and Save Our Food Supply We support the honey bees and donate a percentage of sales to aid the preservation and protection the feral honey bee by rescuing and relocating endangered hives, and by educating the public about the bees’ value, and our partnership with nature. Many of the country’s crops would not exist without the honey bee at bloom time. Crop yield and quality would significantly abate without honey bee pollination. Each year American farmers and growers continue to feed more people using less land. They produce an abundance of food that is nutritious and safe. Honey bees are very much a part of this modern agricultural success story. It’s estimated that there are about 2.4 million colonies in the U.S. today, two-thirds of which travel the country each year pollinating crops and producing honey and beeswax. The production of beeswax is essential to the bee colony. It is used to construct the combs in which the bees raise their brood and into which they keep pollen and surplus honey for the winter. Worker bees, which live only around 35 days in the summer, develop special wax-producing glands on their abdomens (inner sides of the sternites of abdominal segments 4 to 7) and are most efficient at wax production during the 10th through the 16th days of their lives. From about day 18 until the end of its life, a bee's wax glands steadily decline. Bees consume honey (6-8 pounds of honey are consumed to produce a pound of wax) causing the special wax-producing glands to covert the sugar into wax which is extruded through small pores. The wax appears as small flakes on the bees' abdomen. At this point the flakes are essentially transparent and only become white after being chewed. It is in the mastication process that salivary secretions are added to the wax to help soften it. This also accounts for its change in color. The exact process of how a bee transfers the wax scales from its abdomen to its mandibles was a mystery for years. It's now understood to be processed in either of two ways. Most of the activities in the hive are cooperative so it should be no surprise that other worker bees are willing to remove the wax scales from their neighbors and then chew them. The other method is for the same bee extruding the wax to process her own wax scales. This is done using one hind leg to move a wax scale to the first pair of legs (forelegs). A foreleg then makes the final transfer to the mandibles where it is masticated, and then applied to the comb being constructed or repaired. Beeswax becomes soft and very pliable if the temperature is too high (beeswax melts around 149 degrees Fahrenheit). Likewise, it becomes brittle and difficult to manage if the temperature is too low. However, honeybees maintain their hive at a temperature of around 95 degrees Fahrenheit, which is perfect for the manipulation of beeswax. A honeycomb constructed from beeswax is a triumph of engineering. It consists of hexagon shaped cylinders (six-sided) that fit naturally side-by-side. It has been proven that making the cells into hexagons is the most efficient shape for using the smallest possible amount of wax to contain the highest volume of honey. It has also been shown to be one of the strongest possible shapes while using the least amount of material. About the Startup Describe your product in 3 words. Pure. Natural. Aroma How did you come up with the idea for this product? I came up with the idea to make natural wax melts with no chemicals and that lasts longer than soy wax which helps deodorize the air. What makes your product special? Gentle Bees fir needle beeswax melts are unique because beeswax is a natural air purifier and produced by Texas honeybees. What has been the best part of your startup experience? The best part of my startup has been the successful cooperation with . I know how to make unique, fresh, and natural products but I'm not savy with marketing and brand awareness. Because of , we've sold many products worldwide and sales continue to increase.
B**A
Love it!
This is positively bees wax, somewhat sticky. I have been enjoying the smell of Fir all day long. I will purchase this item again, and I will also try the other fragrances. Thanks Amazon for giving these startups a chance. I would not have had the chance to discover this product otherwise. This is a very high quality product! Love it!
R**Y
Sticks like glue!
Once melted in warmer it sticks like glue!
F**6
Gentle Bees: Fir Needle
This is the perfect time of year to get your house smelling like a Christmas tree! These beeswax melts are really nice. They melt easily in my warmer and fill the living room with a pleasant, but not overwhelming, scent.I like that the melts consist only of beeswax and essential oil. No additives or chemicals to create the scent, and even the color looks natural. The beeswax is supposed to improve air quality, a claim I really have no way to test. However, these melts create a welcoming atmosphere and I really enjoy the scent. Some melts I can only use for a short time before the scent becomes too strong and invasive. That's not the case with Gentle Bees. The scent is there, but not too powerful.
S**.
All natural, fresh smelling
I love being able to use natural products with the use of chemicals in my home, and I will pay a little more to be able to do that. Yes this is more expensive than the pack of artificially smelling wax you get from Walmart but it is a natural product with a fresh clean smell. The fir smell is like a Christmas tree but not overpowering. I love that it reduces the negative ions in the air, I also have a salt lamp in my home for that purpose, so this product is right down my alley. The wax itself is soft and stickier than the general was cubes you get, but honestly that is to be expected considering the source. Overall I am very pleased with it!
M**J
Excellent Christmas Scent!
These were great to melt on my candle warmer particularly for Christmas, it smelled like we were in an evergreen forest! They had an excellent amount of scent that lasted longer than a lot of the cheap tarts I buy at the local stores.
C**L
LOVE THIS BRAND SAVE THE BEES THEY DON'T ALWAYS STING
I have not even had the chance to try Gentle Bee's products yet, but after shopping online and looking at how FABULOUSLY NATURAL the packaging is I LOVE THIS BRAND!!! I LOVE BEES, ALL KINDS OF ANIMALS, so don't hesitate next time you are struggling to decide between one brand and another, SAVE THE BEES, CHOOSE GENTLE BEE'S, THEY DONT ALWASY STING BABYYYYYY!!!
A**P
Two Stars
Difficult to remove from the package and zero scent.
H**T
Wonderful fragrance!
I loved the fragrance snd the fact it is formaldehyde free.
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