Beeswax price

[Wilco]

Anyone know roughly what the current wholesale price per kg beeswax is?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Amazon prices seem to vary between around £55 for organic to £16 for Chinese.

 

[Newbeeneil]

I seem to remember wax going for about £40/kilo at the auction last year.

 

[Wilco]

Is this for bulk or just the odd kilo?

 

[Newbeeneil]

Is this for bulk or just the odd kilo?

I think they were 2-3 kg lots

 

[pargyle]

I think they were 2-3 kg lots

Yes ... I was there ... I was surprised at the prices some fairly manky wax was going for .. quite a lot of people bidding for it - Candle makers I assume ?

 

[Wilco]

I think I may be hesitant to base any of my purchasing on the auction prices based on that.

 

[JamezF]

It certainly looks like an awful lot more than you'd get taking wax in for exchange at Thorne, say.

James

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I think I may be hesitant to base any of my purchasing on the auction prices based on that.

you can never base your prices at what wax goes at auctions such as those, Gwenyn Gruffudd gives a reasonable price for clean wax as they make/sell a lot of candles, I have a hundredweight or so of clean wax I need to shift, it's just bothering my arse to drive down to bandit country to do the deal with Angharad

 

[alltddu]

you can never base your prices at what wax goes at auctions such as those, Gwenyn Gruffudd gives a reasonable price for clean wax as they make/sell a lot of candles, I have a hundredweight or so of clean wax I need to shift, it's just bothering my arse to drive down to bandit country to do the deal with Angharad

How much do they pay for nice wax?

 

[Into the lions den]

Beeswax price is a very moveable feast.

Chinese (often not declared as such) on eBay and the likes is well overpriced at 16.00kg and is often stated to be pure but likely to be 'cut' with anything from 20 to 80% paraffin wax (it can be really hard to tell without an analysis), but even pure high purity wax with the best of provenance and analyses is available at less than that.

Organic wax, much of it African, trades in the £20 to 30/kg range..maybe 40 for small cakes at retail. Best UK source for that is Tropical Forest who bring it in direct from Zambia etc.

Eastern European.....good stuff.....around 12.00.
UK wax 14.00 to 15.00

These are for block wax traded in bulk.

Many ask, and get (good for them) higher rates.

We stopped taking trade in wax on equipment a couple of years back as we were sometimes getting flat plate block wax coming in that I KNOW was Chinese of lesser purity bought online as it was cheaper than the trade in rate we were giving. (Might have been saving the beekeeper a tenner?) If you visit Thornes wax facility they will might show you examples of the stuff beekeepers tried to trade in against kit. They keep a 'box of horrors' for just that purpose.

Punted the suspect stuff off at a fiver a kilo to a guy making 'waxlings' (wax impregnated woodwool firelighters).