100g Raw English Beeswax – Pure Unrefined Natural Beeswax from Our Surrey Beehives

🐝 100g Raw English Beeswax from Our Surrey Beehives

Pure, natural beeswax harvested in small quantities from our own beehives at Hanging Wood on the North Downs in Surrey.

This is genuine apiary beeswax produced by our own bees and collected from their hives. We keep processing to a minimum, leaving you with a beautifully natural, raw and unrefined beeswax with its characteristic honeyed colour and wonderful warm beeswax aroma.

Each pack contains approximately 100g and is supplied simply in a brown kraft paper bag.

🍯 From Our Own Bees

We've kept bees at Hanging Wood for over 40 years and manage our colonies using low-intervention beekeeping practices.

We do not clip our queens' wings, artificially inseminate queens or routinely replace older queens simply to maximise productivity.

We also avoid synthetic chemical Varroa treatments in our hives.

Our bees forage across our woodland, wildflower areas and the surrounding Surrey countryside, and the wax they produce naturally varies from colony to colony and throughout the seasons.

You Will Receive

• Approx. 100g natural beeswax
• Harvested from our own Surrey beehives
• Raw and unrefined
• Minimally processed
• Natural beeswax colour and aroma
• Supplied in a brown kraft paper bag
• No artificial fragrance or colouring added

🌿 Naturally Unrefined

This is deliberately not highly refined cosmetic-looking wax.

Because we retain its natural character, you may find tiny fragments of propolis, honeycomb or other normal hive material within the wax.

Colour can also vary considerably, from golden yellow and amber through to deeper honey-brown shades, depending on the comb and colony from which it was harvested.

If your project requires more highly filtered wax, it can be gently melted and passed through suitable fine muslin or filtering material.

🕯️ Uses for Natural Beeswax

Beeswax is an incredibly versatile natural material and can be used for:

• Beeswax candle making
• Furniture and wood polish
• Wooden chopping-board and utensil treatments
• Leather care products
• Wax wraps
• Soap making
• Craft projects
• Traditional encaustic art
• Homemade balms and salves
• Cosmetic formulations
• Lip balm formulations
• Natural household products

For cosmetic or body-care projects, always follow an appropriate tested formulation and check that all ingredients are suitable for your intended use.

🪵 Wonderful for Wood Care

Natural beeswax is particularly beautiful on wood.

It can be incorporated into homemade wood polishes and conditioning products, helping to enhance the natural grain and giving timber a traditional waxed finish.

This makes our wax a particularly nice companion product to the natural branches, carvings and other woodland timber we sell.

Natural Variation

Because this is beeswax from real working colonies rather than an industrially standardised product, every batch can look slightly different.

Expect natural variations in:

• Colour
• Aroma
• Texture
• Hardness
• Small amounts of hive material

These differences are part of the character of genuine minimally processed beeswax.

🌳 From Our Surrey Apiary

Our hives sit alongside our family-managed woodland on the North Downs in Surrey, where we also manage wildflower areas, trees and other habitat for bees and wider wildlife.

Our beeswax is harvested in small quantities as part of our own beekeeping rather than bought in from a commercial wax supplier.

From our bees. From our Surrey woodland. Naturally simple. 🐝🌿

🌿 Explore Our Natural Remedies & Traditional Botanicals

Discover natural hive products and traditional woodland plants from our Surrey woodland and apiary, valued for generations for food, craft and traditional botanical uses.

→ Raw Surrey Honey – 454g / 1lb
Raw, unpasteurised and unfiltered English honey produced by our bees from the varied flowers, trees and plants surrounding our Surrey woodland.

→ 100g Raw English Beeswax
Natural unrefined beeswax from our own hives for balms, salves, cosmetics, candle making, wood care and traditional crafts.

→ 10 x Wild Selfheal Plants – Prunella vulgaris
A native wildflower also known as Heal-All, with a long history of use in traditional European herbal practice, as well as being an attractive wildlife-friendly garden plant.

→ 10 x Wild Ground Ivy Plants
A creeping native woodland plant traditionally associated with herbal and culinary use, with blue-violet flowers and a spreading ground-cover habit.

→ 10 x Wild Stinging Nettle Roots – Urtica dioica
A traditional edible and botanical plant that is also extremely valuable in wildlife gardens, providing habitat and a food plant for the caterpillars of several British butterfly species.

Our woodland plants are gathered in small quantities from our family-managed land on the North Downs in Surrey, while our honey and beeswax come from our own Surrey apiary. 🌿🐝