Every candle is made by hand in our studio in Revelstoke, British Columbia. We dip the tapers, pour the pillars, set the tea lights and votives, and pack the boxes.

Two ingredients: pure Canadian beeswax and a cotton wick. Nothing is added to bulk it out, colour it, or scent it.

Our wax comes from Canadian beekeepers, supplied by Poelman Apiaries in Fort Macleod, Alberta, who filter and refine it with no additives, preservatives or chemicals before it reaches us.

Beeswax is renewable. Bees make it, and it is collected as cappings wax during honey extraction rather than produced for its own sake.

Our wax comes from hives across British Columbia and Alberta, which is why the colour shifts a little from batch to batch with the forage the bees worked. We do not bleach it flat to hide that.

It also has the highest melting point of the common candle waxes, so a beeswax candle burns slower and lasts longer than a softer wax of the same size. Fewer candles, more evenings.

We are the third owners of Beeswax Works, which has been making candles by hand since 1994. We came to it from commercial beekeeping in Revelstoke, BC, and took the business on in July 2023.

One vision, three owners, and the same methods throughout: pure Canadian beeswax, a cotton wick, dipped and poured by hand in small batches.

Our thanks to the customers who have been with us for years, and a welcome to those just finding us.