Beeswax price

[Andre Kruglikov]

If you sell beeswax, would you mind sharing how much you charge for it?

Someone approached me about buying beeswax and seems to be interested in buying all I have, which made me wonder if I am underpricing it.  I quoted him $16/lb

Thank you

Andre

Andre, Chief Bee Herder, Honey Squeezer and Beeswax Melter

Twin Bee Apiaries

2850 Central Avenue

Alameda CA 94501

650-387-5773

[Catherine Edwards]

I have been selling it for $15

Catherine 

Catherine Edwards

(510)421-7206

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[Gabriel Harber]

I sell it for $1.50/ ounch.  

[Andre Kruglikov]

which is 50% higher than those of us who chose to volunteer this info.  Looks like it may be time to reevaluate the value of our time and effort

Thank you

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[Gabriel Harber]

I don’t know how you process beeswax, but it always feels like it is a lot of effort to clean and filter it.  I know you can find cheap beeswax out there, but the stuff that we are producing I am sure is better than most.  I just did a search on Amazon, and without a lot of digging, I found this company who is charging $28/ lb for their beeswax.  They have 600 plus reviews.  

Best,

Gabriel

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[andrew....@comcast.net]

I price my wax similarly.  It's surprisingly close to the per/pound price of honey.

Given the time and labor involved, I'm sure I'm loosing money on the deal, but I have accumulated more wax than I can use myself.

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On Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 1:40:45 PM UTC-7 Andre Kruglikov wrote:

[Denrie]

First photo is Dadant and the second is Mannlake.

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[Andre Kruglikov]

It does take time and causes occasional messes (which take more time).

Thank you.

Andre, Chief Bee Herder, Honey Squeezer and Beeswax Melter

Twin Bee Apiaries

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650-387-5773

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[Gerald Przybylski]

I think it was perhaps on beesource that I read that manufacturers that use beeswax in
cosmetics buy their wax from third world countries where the beekeepers can't afford to
buy petrochemical mite treatments.  Maybe it was the Lusby articles on beeswax.

Wax is a lipid.  The petrochemical mite treatments are lipid soluble.  They persist.
They get recycled by commercial beekeepers selling wax to companies that eventually turn it back
into more foundations or for the coating on wax foundation. I assume they sell bulk too, and wax ingots from their stores.

Organic acid mite treatments don't dissolve into wax, so we backyard beekeepers should have wax
that's pretty clean, especially from white capping wax, which is brand new wax.  
If we buy foundations, then we pick up (traces of?) the lipid soluble acaracides when we render comb. How low is low enough.

We have a 2 pound block of wax we got from BeeKind in 2011.  I won't sell it as our wax because
I don't know if it came from wax from beekeepers that treated.

One of our wax customers uses our wax in a food product.  I feel comfortable with that.

Does anyone have access to a mass-spectrometer they can run their own wax sample though ?

On 4/23/25 12:06 PM, Denrie wrote:

First photo is Dadant and the second is Mannlake.

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