Description Irish Beeswax Candle Heart This Irish Beeswax Candle Heart design is handmade by the beekeeper in Killester using only 100 % premium pure Irish beeswax from our own hives and those of local beekeepers. Sustainable, eco-friendly Irish Beeswax Candles are a beautiful gift supporting local beekeepers and local business. Dimensions: 85mm width, 85mm depth, 30mm height approximately. Due to the handmade nature of these Irish beeswax Candles please allow for small variations in size. Packaging: Your Irish Beeswax Candle Heart Design will arrive packaged in a beautiful recyclable Kraft box with tissue paper ready for you to gift. Some more information about our handmade pure Irish Beeswax Candles: When we remove the surplus honey frames from our beehives at the end of the summer, the honeycomb has already been capped by the honeybees with a beautiful covering of beeswax to keep it clean and safe. In order to extract the liquid honey from the frames we first remove the beeswax with a special knife and put the beeswax aside to melt down and clean at a later stage. This beeswax needs to be melted and filtered several times over a number of days to ensure that it is sufficiently clean to use for making beeswax wraps, candles or balm. Everything is done by hand in time-honoured traditional methods with absolutely no chemicals involved in the cleaning of our beeswax. Time consuming but so rewarding to see the beautiful block of clean, fragrant beeswax at the end! This candle is also available as part of our Valentines Day Irish Honey Gift Box with a specially designed Valentines Day Card Valentines Day Irish Honey Gift Box Did you know? Irish honey, especially multi-floral honeys produced by urban bees have a greater level of antioxidant phenolic compounds than their rural counterparts, a finding possibly due to the flower diversity and abundance surrounding hives. Irish research found a similar overall presence of powerful antioxidants called phenolic compounds in Irish heather honey as has been found in manuka honey. We were delighted to be able to assist in this research programme by providing samples of our Killester honey for testing. Read more here: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-honey-among-world-s-healthiest-study-finds-1.3615937
