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Healing Crystal Sets
Regular price $55.00 Save $-55.00Queen B welcomes 3 new stunning crystal sets, for those who have a spiritual side.
Protection Crystal Set:
This set includes hand selected crystals chosen for their properties around protection and finding a sense of peace:
- Black Obsidian: said to help with healing and navigating through trauma. Perfect to keep with you during difficult times, to ward of negative energy, and provide protection.
- Clear Quartz: said to help with energising and magnifying the vibrational frequency of other crystals, as well as the intentions you set. Aids in transformation.
- Smoky Quartz: has a reputation as the most powerful protective crystal and for absorbing negative energy. Aids with overcoming blockages and obstacles such as depression, anxiety, fear and recurring negative patterns.
Love Crystal Set:
This set includes hand selected crystals said to assist with receiving love and healing:
- Amethyst: known as 'the healer', amethyst is perfect for sufferers of anxiety, anger or emotional imbalances. Amethyst emits a positive energy and promotes calm and the release of fear and hurt. Perfect for those who are stressed and overwhelmed.
- Rose Quartz: known classically as being 'the lover'. Said to aid with experiencing and manifesting love, romance and devotion.
- Clear Quartz: known as 'the master' crystal, clear quartz is said to help with energising and magnifying the vibrational frequency of other crystals, as well as the intentions you set. Aids in transformation.
Grounding Crystal Set:
This set includes hand selected crystals said to assist in feeling grounded and centred:
- Selenite: known for cleansing negative energy, and bringing calm to the environment it's in. Selenite grounds, cleanses and stabilizes.
- Palo Santo: used for spiritual purification and energy cleansing. Light the piece of wood until it starts burning. Once alight, blow out the flame and use the smoke from the smouldering wood to cleanse and purify the air.
- Black Tourmaline: known as the crystal of protection, black tourmaline can make you feel in control, powerful and undefeatable. This grounding and protection crystal is a must have for every collection.
Ho Wood Essential Oil (10ml)
Regular price $12.95 Save $-12.95Description:
(Cinnamomum camphora)
Ingredients: 100% Ho Wood essential oil
Note: Middle
Source: Wood, bark
Origin: India
Extraction Method: Steam distillation
Blends Well With: Cedar, clary sage, cypress
Scent: Mellow woody aroma with floral undertones and a eucalypt top note, similar to that of rosewood.
Properties: Peaceful and calming, helping you to relax and unwind. May improve sleep quality and support the immune system.
Product Features
- Made in Australia
- 100% pure & natural
- True to botanical
- Stringently tested via gas chromatography, optical rotation, refractive index, specific gravity, colour & odour profile
- Ideal for use in aromatherapy, oil burners or blended for massage
- Can also be used in soap making
Buckley & Phillips are one of Australia's most reputable suppliers of essential oils with our Gumleaf Essentials range having been in production since the 1970's.
These essential oils are the finest quality available and have been stringently tested and certified as 100% pure, natural & true to botanical.
Product Features:
Honeycomb - Hand Rolled Beeswax Pillars
Regular price $39.95 Save $-39.95Hand rolled beeswax pillar candle with honeycomb finish... classic design at it's best.
Please remove the white outer packaging before burning.
Available in 6 sizes:
10cm Narrow: ~10cm H x ~6cm W (Burn Time: ~30 hours)
15cm Narrow: ~15cm H x ~6cm W (Burn Time: ~50 hours)
20cm Narrow: ~20cm H x ~6cm W (Burn Time: ~70 hours)
10cm Medium: ~10cm H x ~9cm W (Burn Time: ~50 hours)
15cm Medium: ~15cm H x ~9cm W (Burn Time: ~90 hours)
20cm Fat: ~20cm H x ~11cm W (Burn Time: ~200 hours)
NOTE: this candle is designed for longer burning (ie generally over about 3 hours). Please allow the candle to burn all the way to the outside layer of wax at least every second time you light it.
Due to the width of this candle, it needs to be burned for a minimum of 2 hours each time it’s lit.
All candles, pure beeswax or toxic, need to be burned until the pool of wax reaches the outside edge! It’s an immutable law of physics. This is a requirement every(ish) time you light your candle.
As beeswax is extremely forgiving, if you blow them out sooner on occasion the candle should be able to play catch up.
There is no need with a beeswax candle to put it out once it reaches the outside edge, it should just continue to burn beautifully, without dripping, emitting a light honey aroma and a gorgeous warm ambience.
Every Queen B candle is made with 100% pure Australian beeswax plus a pure cotton wick. Nothing else. No fillers. No fragrances. No soy, palm or paraffin wax… just the purest beeswax in the world. There are many benefits of this approach:
Hurdle Creek Still Aniseed Gin Hamper
Regular price $200.00 Save $-200.00Combining two of our favourite loves this hamper contains:
Choose your favourite Queen B gift card and tell us in the Notes section when checking out what you'd like us to write on it and we'll send your hamper for you.
Hurdle Creek products are made and bottled on site in The Still House. Their triple distilled base spirit is made from locally sourced grain using a traditional infusion mashing system which gives their gin a unique grain character.
The juniper and a select blend of local and native botanicals - some of which are grown in their garden – are vapour infused into the spirit ensuing light, subtle flavours throughout their gins.
The Aniseed Gin 42%
The Hurdle Creek Still Aniseed Gin is a unique gin distilled from barley spirit, vapour infused with a balance between classic and aniseed botanicals.
A unique aniseed flavoured gin vapour infused with the traditional gin botanicals including juniper, coriander, angelica and cassia bark, with a blend of aniseed flavoured botanicals: aniseed, star anise, fennel, liquorice root and aniseed myrtle, fresh ginger and cinnamon myrtle.
Recipe ideas: G&T garnished with orange and sage, in long drinks with ginger beer and lime.
Hurdle Creek Still Grain Jenever Hamper
Regular price $200.00 Save $-200.00Combining two of our favourite loves this hamper contains:
Choose your favourite Queen B gift card and tell us in the Notes section when checking out what you'd like us to write on it and we'll send your hamper for you.
Hurdle Creek products are made and bottled on site in The Still House. Their triple distilled base spirit is made from locally sourced grain using a traditional infusion mashing system which gives their gin a unique grain character.
The juniper and a select blend of local and native botanicals - some of which are grown in their garden – are vapour infused into the spirit ensuing light, subtle flavours throughout their gins.
he forerunner of gin, made with a blend of gin botanicals but with a distinct aged grain character in the spirit, appealing to gin and whiskey drinkers alike.
Grain Jenever 38%
An homage to the traditional Oude (old) Jenever style, with 33% malt-wine. The malt-wine is lightly aged in oak and blended with a triple distilled grain spirit, infused with juniper and a combination of local and native botanicals, including, pink peppercorns, ribbon gum leaves, three Australian myrtles: lemon, cinnamon and aniseed, and eucalyptus honey.
Recipe ideas: Neat, chilled in a tulip glass filled to the rim.
Hurdle Creek Still Powder Monkey Gin Hamper
Regular price $200.00 Save $-200.00Combining two of our favourite loves this hamper contains:
Choose your favourite Queen B gift card and tell us in the Notes section when checking out what you'd like us to write on it and we'll send your hamper for you.
Hurdle Creek products are made and bottled on site in The Still House. Their triple distilled base spirit is made from locally sourced grain using a traditional infusion mashing system which gives their gin a unique grain character.
The juniper and a select blend of local and native botanicals - some of which are grown in their garden – are vapour infused into the spirit ensuing light, subtle flavours throughout their gins.
Navy strength gin made in a classic dry style with a barley and triticale spirit, showcasing a select few native and locally grown botanicals.
Powder Monkey Navy Strength Gin 58%
At its heart is a bold dry spirit with a distinctive rye character that we craft from triticale, malt and barley. After 3 distillations in our copper and glass column, we infuse a selection of six botanicals: plenty of juniper, supported by five locally sourced botanicals; eucalyptus leaves (picked from the majestic Blakley's red gum [Eucalyptus blakelyi] outside the Stillhouse), pink peppercorns along with cinnamon, lemon and aniseed myrtles.
Powder Monkey is currently made with 100% Australian grain & botanicals and features NE Victorian "Bobbie's Patch" Juniper.
Recipe ideas: Classic G&T with lemon or lime, Gin sour.
Hurdle Creek Still Yardarm Gin Hamper
Regular price $200.00 Save $-200.00Combining two of our favourite loves this hamper contains:
Choose your favourite Queen B gift card and tell us in the Notes section when checking out what you'd like us to write on it and we'll send your hamper for you.
Hurdle Creek products are made and bottled on site in The Still House. Their triple distilled base spirit is made from locally sourced grain using a traditional infusion mashing system which gives their gin a unique grain character.
The juniper and a select blend of local and native botanicals - some of which are grown in their garden – are vapour infused into the spirit ensuing light, subtle flavours throughout their gins.
The Aniseed Gin 42%
The Hurdle Creek Still Aniseed Gin is a unique gin distilled from barley spirit, vapour infused with a balance between classic and aniseed botanicals.
A unique aniseed flavoured gin vapour infused with the traditional gin botanicals including juniper, coriander, angelica and cassia bark, with a blend of aniseed flavoured botanicals: aniseed, star anise, fennel, liquorice root and aniseed myrtle, fresh ginger and cinnamon myrtle.
Recipe ideas: G&T garnished with orange and sage, in long drinks with ginger beer and lime.
I Quit Plastic - Kate Nelson
Regular price $33.00 Save $-33.00Kate Nelson has been disposable-plastic free for a decade. She started small: stopping her use of plastic bags and water bottles, refusing straws and carrying a reusable cup for takeaway coffee. But unhappy with how much plastic she still handled in her day-to-day life, she knew she had to do more. It took years, but Kate has developed effective strategies that others can easily adopt. This inspiring and practical guide to reducing your use of plastic is packed with information, how-to’s and tips to help you cook, clean, shop, wear, and live plastic-free.
Kate shows how to reduce your waste and live more simply and sustainably, no matter where you’re starting from. With over 60 recipes—covering nutrition, bodycare, hygiene and cleaning—Kate Nelson provides the tools you need to make small personal changes that have lasting global impact. Includes dual measures.
Jam Jar Tealight Candles | 4-5 hour Burn Time
Regular price $34.95 Save $0.00Pure beeswax tealight candles in a reusable, jam jar candleholder created for long term collaborator, Joost Bakker.
Dimensions
H: ~3.4cm
W: ~4.0cm
Burn time: 4 - 5 hours each
These candles must be used in the specific size of jam jar sold in the Jam Jar tealight pack. No bigger. No smaller. *
(the wick is chosen to burn to the specific width of our jam jar... a bigger jar and it won't consume all the wax... a smaller jar and you'll get smoking and soot).
Due to the width of this candle, it needs to be burned for a minimum of 2 hours each time it’s lit.
All candles, pure beeswax or toxic, need to be burned until the pool of wax reaches the outside edge! It’s an immutable law of physics. This is a requirement every(ish) time you light your candle.
As beeswax is extremely forgiving, if you blow them out sooner on occasion the candle should be able to play catch up.
There is no need with a beeswax candle to put it out once it reaches the outside edge, it should just continue to burn beautifully, without dripping, emitting a light honey aroma and a gorgeous warm ambience.
A tealight candle should be burned in one sitting.
We know that with the price of beeswax candles being more than their toxic cousins, many of our customers would prefer to burn tealights over a couple of evenings, so… here’s the rub… (you may need a coffee)!
A tealight candle has a wick that is held up by a metal ‘sustainer’. That sustainer has a 3mm neck holding the wick upright.
If you burn your tealight candle down so that there is say 4 – 5mm of wax remaining in the bottom of the cup, that means there is only 1 – 2mm of unburnt wick sticking out the top of the metal sustainer neck. That is not enough wick to burn out to the edge and consume all of the beeswax remaining in the cup.
So, if you want to burn your tealights over multiple sessions please ensure there is a MINIMUM of 6mm of beeswax in the bottom of the tealight cup (that’s around ½ the height of the 4-5hour tealight cup and just over 1/3 of the height of the 8-9hour tealight cup).
If you play your cards right, this should mean that you can get a couple of nights out of a 4 – 5 hour tealight and 3 evenings out of an 8 – 9 hour tealight. BOOM!
Every Queen B candle is made with 100% pure Australian beeswax plus a pure cotton wick. Nothing else. No fillers. No fragrances. No soy, palm or paraffin wax… just the purest beeswax in the world. There are many benefits of this approach:
Just One Bee - Margrete Lamond/Anthony Bertini
Regular price $25.00 Save $-25.00Winner: Children's Book Council of Australia, Picture Book of the Year, 2022
All it takes is the will to make dreams come true.
JUST ONE BEE is a story of hope, determination and never giving up: the story of One-bee and her dream to revert desolate wastes back to fields of flowers.
To change a desert to meadowland she needs to go it alone because when she comes across another bee, she discovers not only is he hoarding a single precious flower and a queen bee, but he refuses to believe positive change is possible. Other-bee does all he can to quash One-bee's dream.
But One-bee’s persistence, patience and optimism eventually prove Other-bee wrong, and she shows him how dreams can come true.
Kitchen Starter Pack Beeswax Wrap - Dreamtime
Regular price $49.95 Save $-49.951 x Medium Wrap (27cm x 27cm)
1 x Large Wrap (37cm x 37cm)
1 x Mega Wrap (54cm x 54cm)
Our Dreamtime range of Beeswax Wraps use a selection of Jijaka fabric. Jijaka is an Aboriginal word meaning 'kangaroo'. Jijaka authentic designs tell the stories of Aboriginal people who have lived on the Australian continent for more than 40,000 years. Their corroborree ceremonies trace the ancient Dreamtime journeys of spirit ancestors, as they traveled the vast Australian landscape.
Sales of Jijaka designs directly support Aboriginal artistic, social and cultural programs.
Made with pure cotton fabric, pure Australian beeswax, organic coconut oil and tree resin.
Queen B beeswax wraps are a natural, biodegradable alternative to plastic wrap.
Uses: These wraps will stick to themselves using the warmth of your hands. Simply wrap around the food item (cheese, fruit, veggies), bowl or plate of food to create a seal.
Cleaning: Rinse between uses in lukewarm water with a mild dish soap (like sunlight soap).
Refreshing your wraps: Depending on your usage, your wraps should last between 6-12 months. If they start looking a bit haggard, lay between sheets of baking paper and iron (or pop on baking paper in a 110 degree celcius oven for a few minutes).
* Please note that the fabric pattern may vary
Expertise | Usability | Made by Hand | Fabrics | Proprietary Methods of Working with Beeswax
Expertise - we've got 20 years of skin in the game. That's tens of thousands of hours of expertise working with beeswax. Owner, Cate Burton, is the beeswax judge for the National Honey Show and is an acknowledged global expert in beeswax.
Made by Us and Made by Hand - we're control freaks at Queen B. We hand make every single candle and wrap we sell in our purpose fitout hive here on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
The next 2 largest brands in Australia outsource everything - their fabric is imported and sent directly to another company who wax it and sent to another for cutting and packing. How on earth can you guarantee the quality of your product if you don't even make it?
And then there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of wraps made in a home garage or kitchen. Are you really going to risk wrapping your food in that?
Fabrics - From our beautiful ranges Made with Liberty Fabrics to our collaboration with Jocelyn Proust, we promise to bring you an ever fashionable range of wraps with which to adorn your fridge and lunch box! We're bringing the stylish to sustainable.
Usability - before we launch any product at Queen B we ask ourselves whether the world needs our version of that product?
In the case of beeswax candles it was a resounding yes as beeswax candles had stopped being made professionally many decades prior due to the price of beeswax. All the beeswax candles we came across looked dirty, didn't burn properly and were inconsistent.
In the case of beeswax lip balm, the answer was no... there are already great products on the market that we use ourselves.
In the case of beeswax wraps the answer was again a resounding YES! All of the wraps on the market that we tested were either too brittle (so you couldn't get a seal with the warmth of your hands); had too much beeswax in the mix (causing them to crack when unwrapping things straight out of the fridge) and/or were just downright ugly. The world most definitely needed wraps that were fit for purpose... malleable, easy to seal, not too tacky, not too dry, not too stiff and most definitely not ugly!
Proprietary Methods - Our methods of cleaning beeswax (using only water, filtration and time) are proprietary and carefully guarded. Our decades of working with beeswax have also taught us exactly how to respect and work with this extraordinary material and our hive dedicates almost 500 square metres to this pursuit.
Queen B is no backyard or kitchen table business... we take our commitment to your health and wellbeing seriously and hand make products with that in mind!
Should you ever be anything other than completely delighted with anything that you purchase from Queen B, please contact us pronto... we are not a nameless, faceless business with a call centre overseas - we're a passionate bunch of humans trying our darndest to make a difference.
A medium beeswax wrap (27cm x 27cm) is suitable for a myriad of uses including wrapping:
A large beeswax wrap (37cm x 27cm) is suitable for many uses including wrapping:
An XL beeswax wrap (40cm x 54cm) is a workhorse for covering:
If you've got lots of different uses or you're starting using beeswax wraps for the first time, this is a great pack for you to start out with to work out how they fit into your life and what your most common needs are.
Kitchen Starter Pack Beeswax Wraps | Classic Collection
Regular price $49.95 Save $-49.95This pack contains:
Queen B's Classic Collections of beeswax food wrap offer a variety of fabrics that we loosely describe as either "Classic Colours" or "Classic Neutrals".
The fabric you receive may vary from those you see in the photographs (not dramatically but because photography is expensive and website stuff time consuming, if we buy a short run of fabric we love it is unrealistic to load. You are always free to return wraps as new if you aren't delighted)
Expertise | Usability | Made by Hand | Fabrics | Proprietary Methods of Working with Beeswax
Expertise - we've got 20 years of skin in the game. That's tens of thousands of hours of expertise working with beeswax. Owner, Cate Burton, is the beeswax judge for the National Honey Show and is an acknowledged global expert in beeswax.
Made by Us and Made by Hand - we're control freaks at Queen B. We hand make every single candle and wrap we sell in our purpose fitout hive here on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
The next 2 largest brands in Australia outsource everything - their fabric is imported and sent directly to another company who wax it and sent to another for cutting and packing. How on earth can you guarantee the quality of your product if you don't even make it?
And then there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of wraps made in a home garage or kitchen. Are you really going to risk wrapping your food in that?
Fabrics - From our beautiful ranges Made with Liberty Fabrics to our collaboration with Jocelyn Proust, we promise to bring you an ever fashionable range of wraps with which to adorn your fridge and lunch box! We're bringing the stylish to sustainable.
Usability - before we launch any product at Queen B we ask ourselves whether the world needs our version of that product?
In the case of beeswax candles it was a resounding yes as beeswax candles had stopped being made professionally many decades prior due to the price of beeswax. All the beeswax candles we came across looked dirty, didn't burn properly and were inconsistent.
In the case of beeswax lip balm, the answer was no... there are already great products on the market that we use ourselves.
In the case of beeswax wraps the answer was again a resounding YES! All of the wraps on the market that we tested were either too brittle (so you couldn't get a seal with the warmth of your hands); had too much beeswax in the mix (causing them to crack when unwrapping things straight out of the fridge) and/or were just downright ugly. The world most definitely needed wraps that were fit for purpose... malleable, easy to seal, not too tacky, not too dry, not too stiff and most definitely not ugly!
Proprietary Methods - Our methods of cleaning beeswax (using only water, filtration and time) are proprietary and carefully guarded. Our decades of working with beeswax have also taught us exactly how to respect and work with this extraordinary material and our hive dedicates almost 500 square metres to this pursuit.
Queen B is no backyard or kitchen table business... we take our commitment to your health and wellbeing seriously and hand make products with that in mind!
Should you ever be anything other than completely delighted with anything that you purchase from Queen B, please contact us pronto... we are not a nameless, faceless business with a call centre overseas - we're a passionate bunch of humans trying our darndest to make a difference.
A medium beeswax wrap (27cm x 27cm) is suitable for a myriad of uses including wrapping:
A large beeswax wrap (37cm x 27cm) is suitable for many uses including wrapping:
An XL beeswax wrap (40cm x 54cm) is a workhorse for covering:
If you've got lots of different uses or you're starting using beeswax wraps for the first time, this is a great pack for you to start out with to work out how they fit into your life and what your most common needs are.
Kitchen Starter Pack Beeswax Wraps | Made with Liberty Fabric
Regular price $59.95 Save $-59.95Dimensions:
Available until sold out in Limited Edition, iconic fabrics made with Liberty Fabrics:
Expertise | Usability | Made by Hand | Fabrics | Proprietary Methods of Working with Beeswax
Expertise - we've got 20 years of skin in the game. That's tens of thousands of hours of expertise working with beeswax. Owner, Cate Burton, is the beeswax judge for the National Honey Show and is an acknowledged global expert in beeswax.
Made by Us and Made by Hand - we're control freaks at Queen B. We hand make every single candle and wrap we sell in our purpose fitout hive here on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
The next 2 largest brands in Australia outsource everything - their fabric is imported and sent directly to another company who wax it and sent to another for cutting and packing. How on earth can you guarantee the quality of your product if you don't even make it?
And then there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of wraps made in a home garage or kitchen. Are you really going to risk wrapping your food in that?
Fabrics - From our beautiful ranges Made with Liberty Fabrics to our collaboration with Jocelyn Proust, we promise to bring you an ever fashionable range of wraps with which to adorn your fridge and lunch box! We're bringing the stylish to sustainable.
Usability - before we launch any product at Queen B we ask ourselves whether the world needs our version of that product?
In the case of beeswax candles it was a resounding yes as beeswax candles had stopped being made professionally many decades prior due to the price of beeswax. All the beeswax candles we came across looked dirty, didn't burn properly and were inconsistent.
In the case of beeswax lip balm, the answer was no... there are already great products on the market that we use ourselves.
In the case of beeswax wraps the answer was again a resounding YES! All of the wraps on the market that we tested were either too brittle (so you couldn't get a seal with the warmth of your hands); had too much beeswax in the mix (causing them to crack when unwrapping things straight out of the fridge) and/or were just downright ugly. The world most definitely needed wraps that were fit for purpose... malleable, easy to seal, not too tacky, not too dry, not too stiff and most definitely not ugly!
Proprietary Methods - Our methods of cleaning beeswax (using only water, filtration and time) are proprietary and carefully guarded. Our decades of working with beeswax have also taught us exactly how to respect and work with this extraordinary material and our hive dedicates almost 500 square metres to this pursuit.
Queen B is no backyard or kitchen table business... we take our commitment to your health and wellbeing seriously and hand make products with that in mind!
Should you ever be anything other than completely delighted with anything that you purchase from Queen B, please contact us pronto... we are not a nameless, faceless business with a call centre overseas - we're a passionate bunch of humans trying our darndest to make a difference.
Liberty Fabrics - original British design since 1875. Liberty fabrics are designed via bespoke production process: hand drawn or painted by the in-house design team in Soho, London. Transformed onto fabric at Liberty’s own Italian printing mill near Lake Como and shipped to Queen B in Sydney, Australia.
Betsy Ann - BETSY was designed for Liberty in 1933 by the designer DS who designed many of Liberty's popular 1930s prints. A small scale version of Betsy, this lovely floral Liberty Fabrics Betsy Ann print was taken from the Autumn Winter Collection 2013.
Clementina - Liberty’s name is so synonymous with the Art Nouveau style that the Italian translation is ‘Stile Liberty’. This particular design from the early 1900s is often used to describe the style itself. It became popular again in the 1960s.
Floral Earth - A medley of strange fruits and abstract vegetables are scattered across a blanket of fabric as bees buzz and beetles crawl. Each element was individually painted in oils and amalgamated into a rich tapestry of warm autumnal harvest fruits and vegetables.
A medium beeswax wrap (27cm x 27cm) is suitable for a myriad of uses including wrapping:
A large beeswax wrap (37cm x 27cm) is suitable for many uses including wrapping:
An XL beeswax wrap (40cm x 54cm) is a workhorse for covering:
If you've got lots of different uses or you're starting using beeswax wraps for the first time, this is a great pack for you to start out with to work out how they fit into your life and what your most common needs are.
La Rochere Delice Glass Dishes
Regular price Sale price $12.50 Save $-12.50These stunning La Rochere glasses are made in La Rochere in France where they've been made since 1456. They are very clear glass and dishwasher safe.
Available in 2 sizes:
Small - 5.3cm H x 7cm W - 100ml
Medium - 6.2cm H x 8.2cm W - 190ml
Large - 7.3cm H x 9.65cm W - 290ml
As well as being incredibly useful as a serving bowl for desserts, olives, dips or dressings, they also cast a stunning light when used as a tealight holder.
Save when you buy in a carton of 6.
Langstroth's Hive & the Honey-Bee - L.L. Langstroth
Regular price $35.00 Save $-35.00This influential guide by the Reverend L. L. Langstroth, ""the father of modern beekeeping,"" revolutionized the practice of beekeeping. Originally published in 1853, his work constitutes the first descriptive treatise of modern bee management - its innovations allowed people to engage in actual beekeeping, rather than simply handling bee domiciles and extracting the honey.
This book explains and illustrates techniques still employed 150 years later - including the author's patented invention, a movable frame hive that quickly spread into common use around the world.In his reader-friendly, nontechnical style, Langstroth addresses every aspect of beekeeping: bee physiology; diseases and enemies of bees; the life-cycles of the queen, drone, and worker; bee-hives; and the handling of bees. An infectious sense of wonder and enthusiasm suffuses Langstroth's accounts of natural and artificial swarming, the production of honey and wax, and the best methods of feeding bees and maintaining an apiary.
The manual abounds in practical and intriguing insights attained through the years of observation and experience, including ""the kindness of bees to one another,"" ""their infatuation for liquid sweets,"" and ""the warning given by bees before stinging.""This version of Langstroth's ever-popular manual is the fourth and final edition; it incorporates the author's own revisions and remains an unsurpassed resource for beekeepers.
Large Pine Cone
Regular price $34.95 Save $-34.95This delightful Pine Cone candle is just the thing for a beautiful, stylish gift or decoration.
Presented in a beautiful, brown kraft box with a window allowing you to see the pine cone.
H:~7.5cm
W:~6.5cm
Burn time: 20 hours
Due to the width of this candle, it needs to be burned for a minimum of 2 hours each time it’s lit.
All candles, pure beeswax or toxic, need to be burned until the pool of wax reaches the outside edge! It’s an immutable law of physics. This is a requirement every(ish) time you light your candle.
As beeswax is extremely forgiving, if you blow them out sooner on occasion the candle should be able to play catch up.
There is no need with a beeswax candle to put it out once it reaches the outside edge, it should just continue to burn beautifully, without dripping, emitting a light honey aroma and a gorgeous warm ambience.
Every Queen B candle is made with 100% pure Australian beeswax plus a pure cotton wick. Nothing else. No fillers. No fragrances. No soy, palm or paraffin wax… just the purest beeswax in the world. There are many benefits of this approach:
Large Rolly Tree
Regular price $59.95 Save $-59.95These delightful rubanesque trees and just the thing for a beautiful, stylish decoration... Christmassy enough to pass for Christmas but not so Christmassy that it sits in the cupboard for a year!
They are also priced to be a perfect gift for your hosts.
H:~13cm
W:~8.2cm
Burn time ±50 hrs
Due to the narrow width of these candles they have no minimum burn time. You can burn them for as long or as short a period as you would like.
All candles, pure beeswax or toxic, need to be burned until the pool of wax reaches the outside edge! It’s an immutable law of physics. This is a requirement every (ish) time you light your candle.
There is no need with a beeswax candle to put it out once it reaches the outside edge, it should just continue to burn beautifully, without dripping, emitting a light honey aroma and a gorgeous warm ambience.
If you’re looking for candles for yoga, meditation, a relaxing bath, kids dinner, bedtime story or any activity that goes for less than a couple of hours, these are the candles for you.
Every Queen B candle is made with 100% pure Australian beeswax plus a pure cotton wick. Nothing else. No fillers. No fragrances. No soy, palm or paraffin wax… just the purest beeswax in the world. There are many benefits of this approach:
Little Lights (Box of 30)| > 1 hour Burn Time
Regular price $59.95 Save $-59.95Dimensions:
H: ~ 12 cm
W: ~ 0.7 - 0.9cm
Burn time: over 1 hour each
Material: Queen B's 100% pure Australian beeswax
Wick: Pure Cotton
Does not include a brass candleholder.
Made specifically for our Mindfulness Kit, these Little Lights also fit all other Queen B Black Label Candleholders.
Queen B Little Lights were created to meet customer demand for a candle that burns for over an hour, end to end. Very specific customer feedback and it turns out it's a VERY USEFUL burn time!
Perfect for lighting for a meditation, bath, kids dinner, bedtime story, yoga or any other ritual.
Love Bees - Vanessa Amaral-Rogers
Regular price $23.00 Save $-23.00Love Bees introduces why bees matter and how we can all help them survive in the modern world of many pitfalls perpetrated by Homo sapiens. A great read with content for all the family.’ – BugLife Bees need our love and attention! Help save bees and have fun along the way with Love Bees: A Family Guide to Keep Bees Buzzing. Bee colonies are fast declining and our buzzing buddies need our help urgently if they are to recover and thrive.
In this bright, bubbly book, full of activities for families to do together, Vanessa Amaral-Rogers focuses on how we can help our nectar-collecting buddies flourish — and why these important insects are so awesome — through a whole swarm of engaging facts and fun games. Teach your kids that conservation is cool – and what the awesome rules are to become a bee’s BFF (Best Friend Forever). Find out together how to make a bee hotel or a wildflower window box, and play the Waggle Dance board game. Pull-out activities include: 64 colour stickers Make your own bee mobile Waggle Dance board game Bee-spotter’s survey sheet Where do I live? wheel With exciting lessons in natural history and gardening, from planting pollinator-friendly flowers to growing a green wall, this is a call to action with a positively sunny outlook.
Low Tox Life: A Handbook for a Healthy You & Happy Planet - Alexx Stuart
Regular price $35.00 Save $-35.00Ever stopped to read the list of ingredients in the products you use every day? In Low Tox Life, activist and educator Alexx Stuart gently clears a path through the maze of mass-market ingredient cocktails, focusing on four key areas: Body, Home, Food and Mind.
Sharing the latest science and advice from experts in each area, Alexx tackles everything from endocrine-disruptors in beauty products to the challenge of going low plastic in a high-plastic world, and how to clean without a hit of harmful toxins.
You don’t need to be a fulltime homesteader with a cupboard full of organic linens to go low tox. Start small, switching or ditching one nasty at a time, and enjoy the process as a positive one for you and the planet.Marrakech - Hand Rolled Beeswax Pillars
Regular price $39.95 Save $-39.95Transport yourself to the Morocco with this hand rolled beeswax pillar candle with an individually painted, beeswax wrap.
Our hand rolled beeswax pillar candles are designed to burn down inside their individually painted beeswax wrap. Please remove the white outer packaging before burning.
Available in 5 sizes:
10cm Narrow: ~10cm H x ~6cm W (Burn Time: ~30 hours)
15cm Narrow: ~15cm H x ~6cm W (Burn Time: ~50 hours)
10cm Medium: ~10cm H x ~9cm W (Burn Time: ~50 hours)
15cm Medium: ~15cm H x ~9cm W (Burn Time: ~90 hours)
20cm Fat: ~20cm H x ~11cm W (Burn Time: ~200 hours)
All candle sizes are designed for longer (3+ hour) burning.
Due to the width of this candle, it needs to be burned for a minimum of 2 hours each time it’s lit.
All candles, pure beeswax or toxic, need to be burned until the pool of wax reaches the outside edge! It’s an immutable law of physics. This is a requirement every(ish) time you light your candle.
As beeswax is extremely forgiving, if you blow them out sooner on occasion the candle should be able to play catch up.
There is no need with a beeswax candle to put it out once it reaches the outside edge, it should just continue to burn beautifully, without dripping, emitting a light honey aroma and a gorgeous warm ambience.
Every Queen B candle is made with 100% pure Australian beeswax plus a pure cotton wick. Nothing else. No fillers. No fragrances. No soy, palm or paraffin wax… just the purest beeswax in the world. There are many benefits of this approach:
Medium Rolly Tree
Regular price $44.95 Save $-44.95It's the 'middle child' of our Rolly Tree Trio without the self esteem issues!! Perfectly proportioned with a lovely large flame and giving it's siblings the added dimension they need.
These delightful rubanesque trees and just the thing for a beautiful, stylish decoration... Christmassy enough to pass for Christmas but not so Christmassy that it sits in the cupboard for a year!
They are also priced to be a perfect gift for your hosts.
H:~10.5cm
W:~7cm
Burn time ±30 hrs
Due to the narrow width of these candles they have no minimum burn time. You can burn them for as long or as short a period as you would like.
All candles, pure beeswax or toxic, need to be burned until the pool of wax reaches the outside edge! It’s an immutable law of physics. This is a requirement every (ish) time you light your candle.
There is no need with a beeswax candle to put it out once it reaches the outside edge, it should just continue to burn beautifully, without dripping, emitting a light honey aroma and a gorgeous warm ambience.
If you’re looking for candles for yoga, meditation, a relaxing bath, kids dinner, bedtime story or any activity that goes for less than a couple of hours, these are the candles for you.
Every Queen B candle is made with 100% pure Australian beeswax plus a pure cotton wick. Nothing else. No fillers. No fragrances. No soy, palm or paraffin wax… just the purest beeswax in the world. There are many benefits of this approach:
Mega Beeswax Wrap | Classic Collection
Regular price $29.95 Save $-29.95Queen B's Classic Collection comprises a variety of fabrics that are colourful or neutral. For the user who without a particular fabric preference.
The Mega is just over a third of the size of an Uber measuring 54cm x 54cm. It can accommodate most vegetables like celery and spinach.
This is the best value beeswax wrap on the market. It can be cut down into 4 x medium (27cm x 27cm) wraps and if you look at the pricing of every other Australian medium beeswax wrap product on the market this is the cheapest price for 4 of them. And you get the Queen B quality too... from the experts in pure Australian beeswax products.
Expertise | Usability | Made by Hand | Fabrics | Proprietary Methods of Working with Beeswax
Expertise - we've got 20 years of skin in the game. That's tens of thousands of hours of expertise working with beeswax. Owner, Cate Burton, is the beeswax judge for the National Honey Show and is an acknowledged global expert in beeswax.
Made by Us and Made by Hand - we're control freaks at Queen B. We hand make every single candle and wrap we sell in our purpose fitout hive here on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
The next 2 largest brands in Australia outsource everything - their fabric is imported and sent directly to another company who wax it and sent to another for cutting and packing. How on earth can you guarantee the quality of your product if you don't even make it?
And then there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of wraps made in a home garage or kitchen. Are you really going to risk wrapping your food in that?
Fabrics - From our beautiful ranges Made with Liberty Fabrics to our collaboration with Jocelyn Proust, we promise to bring you an ever fashionable range of wraps with which to adorn your fridge and lunch box! We're bringing the stylish to sustainable.
Usability - before we launch any product at Queen B we ask ourselves whether the world needs our version of that product?
In the case of beeswax candles it was a resounding yes as beeswax candles had stopped being made professionally many decades prior due to the price of beeswax. All the beeswax candles we came across looked dirty, didn't burn properly and were inconsistent.
In the case of beeswax lip balm, the answer was no... there are already great products on the market that we use ourselves.
In the case of beeswax wraps the answer was again a resounding YES! All of the wraps on the market that we tested were either too brittle (so you couldn't get a seal with the warmth of your hands); had too much beeswax in the mix (causing them to crack when unwrapping things straight out of the fridge) and/or were just downright ugly. The world most definitely needed wraps that were fit for purpose... malleable, easy to seal, not too tacky, not too dry, not too stiff and most definitely not ugly!
Proprietary Methods - Our methods of cleaning beeswax (using only water, filtration and time) are proprietary and carefully guarded. Our decades of working with beeswax have also taught us exactly how to respect and work with this extraordinary material and our hive dedicates almost 500 square metres to this pursuit.
Queen B is no backyard or kitchen table business... we take our commitment to your health and wellbeing seriously and hand make products with that in mind!
Should you ever be anything other than completely delighted with anything that you purchase from Queen B, please contact us pronto... we are not a nameless, faceless business with a call centre overseas - we're a passionate bunch of humans trying our darndest to make a difference.
Mega Beeswax Wrap | Made with Liberty Fabric
Regular price $34.95 Save $-34.95New & limited edition these exclusive designs are Made with Liberty Fabrics, original British design since 1875.
Dimensions: 54cm x 54cm (cut it into quarters for 4 medium wraps). This is the best value beeswax wrap on the market. It can be cut down into 4 x medium (27cm x 27cm) wraps and if you look at the pricing of every other Australian medium beeswax wrap product on the market this is the cheapest price for 4 of them. And you get the Queen B quality too... from the experts in pure Australian beeswax products.
Available until sold out of our Iconic Liberty fabric's:
Expertise | Usability | Made by Hand | Fabrics | Proprietary Methods of Working with Beeswax
Expertise - we've got 20 years of skin in the game. That's tens of thousands of hours of expertise working with beeswax. Owner, Cate Burton, is the beeswax judge for the National Honey Show and is an acknowledged global expert in beeswax.
Made by Us and Made by Hand - we're control freaks at Queen B. We hand make every single candle and wrap we sell in our purpose fitout hive here on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
The next 2 largest brands in Australia outsource everything - their fabric is imported and sent directly to another company who wax it and sent to another for cutting and packing. How on earth can you guarantee the quality of your product if you don't even make it?
And then there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of wraps made in a home garage or kitchen. Are you really going to risk wrapping your food in that?
Fabrics - From our beautiful ranges Made with Liberty Fabrics to our collaboration with Jocelyn Proust, we promise to bring you an ever fashionable range of wraps with which to adorn your fridge and lunch box! We're bringing the stylish to sustainable.
Usability - before we launch any product at Queen B we ask ourselves whether the world needs our version of that product?
In the case of beeswax candles it was a resounding yes as beeswax candles had stopped being made professionally many decades prior due to the price of beeswax. All the beeswax candles we came across looked dirty, didn't burn properly and were inconsistent.
In the case of beeswax lip balm, the answer was no... there are already great products on the market that we use ourselves.
In the case of beeswax wraps the answer was again a resounding YES! All of the wraps on the market that we tested were either too brittle (so you couldn't get a seal with the warmth of your hands); had too much beeswax in the mix (causing them to crack when unwrapping things straight out of the fridge) and/or were just downright ugly. The world most definitely needed wraps that were fit for purpose... malleable, easy to seal, not too tacky, not too dry, not too stiff and most definitely not ugly!
Proprietary Methods - Our methods of cleaning beeswax (using only water, filtration and time) are proprietary and carefully guarded. Our decades of working with beeswax have also taught us exactly how to respect and work with this extraordinary material and our hive dedicates almost 500 square metres to this pursuit.
Queen B is no backyard or kitchen table business... we take our commitment to your health and wellbeing seriously and hand make products with that in mind!
Should you ever be anything other than completely delighted with anything that you purchase from Queen B, please contact us pronto... we are not a nameless, faceless business with a call centre overseas - we're a passionate bunch of humans trying our darndest to make a difference.
Liberty Fabrics - original British design since 1875. Liberty fabrics are designed via bespoke production process: hand drawn or painted by the in-house design team in Soho, London. Transformed onto fabric at Liberty’s own Italian printing mill near Lake Como and shipped to Queen B in Sydney, Australia.
Betsy Ann - BETSY was designed for Liberty in 1933 by the designer DS who designed many of Liberty's popular 1930s prints. A small scale version of Betsy, this lovely floral Liberty Fabrics Betsy Ann print was taken from the Autumn Winter Collection 2013.
Clementina - Liberty’s name is so synonymous with the Art Nouveau style that the Italian translation is ‘Stile Liberty’. This particular design from the early 1900s is often used to describe the style itself. It became popular again in the 1960s.
Floral Earth - A medley of strange fruits and abstract vegetables are scattered across a blanket of fabric as bees buzz and beetles crawl. Each element was individually painted in oils and amalgamated into a rich tapestry of warm autumnal harvest fruits and vegetables.
Miellerie Honey
Regular price $15.00 Save $-15.00Miellerie honey hails from the Tasmania wilderness where Frenchman, Yves Ginat, marries the french technique of soft setting honey with the extraordinary flower nectars of Tasmania.
Miellerie honey is unprocessed and unheated, thus maintaining the honey's optimum natural aroma, health qualities, and characteristic crystals. Each of the honeys in the Miellerie range are soft set, with a smooth, velvety texture that melts literally in your mouth (or on your sourdough crumpet)!
As an apiarist, Yves nurtures his bee community using organic and biodynamic beekeeping practices to maintain health and harmony from the hive to the jar. Essential to the integrity of Miellerie is their trade practice of cold extraction of the honey from the comb to harness the vitality, aroma, flavour, colour and texture of the exquisite nectars from the pristine Tasmanian forests.
If you love the caramel created when you boil a can of Condensed Milk, you'll go wild for Blue Gum honey. It's nature's version of caramel.
Leatherwood honey is quite simply an absolute taste sensation. A leatherwood tree has to be over 80 years old before it yields any blossoms and quite frankly you can taste that ancient wisdom in the honey. I tell our customers that visit Queen B that Leatherwood honey is "like being punched in the mouth with a bunch of flowers"... it is incredibly aromatic and floral and will be like nothing else you've ever tasted. Leatherwood honey is amazing to use where it's floral nature can be hero'ed... like dressings, savoury marinades or cakes/biscuits with only a few ingredients.
From late October to early January Lake Pedder yields the bees their favourite wild flower nectars (Banksia, Tea Tree, Button grass, Melaleuca, Peppermint) from the heart of Tasmania’s world heritage listed forests. If you love strong flavoured and manuka honey's, you'll love Lake Pedder's Nectar.
Mindfulness Kit (incl. brass holder)| > 1 hour Burn Time
Regular price $59.95 Save $-59.95Brass Beehive Dimensions:
H: ~ 2.4 cm
W: ~ 2.2 cm
Candle Dimensions:
H: ~ 12 cm
W: ~ 0.7 - 0.9cm
Burn time: over 1 hour each
Material: Queen B's 100% pure Australian beeswax
Wick: Pure Cotton
This kit includes 1 x Mini Brass Beehive candleholder (Australian Made, of course) + 8 x Little Lights in a stunning wooden box with a sliding lid and a slot to pop in your favourite card.
Made specifically for our Mindfulness Kit, these Little Lights also fit all other Queen B Black Label Candleholders.
Queen B Little Lights were created to meet customer demand for a candle that burns for over an hour, end to end. Very specific customer feedback and it turns out it's a VERY USEFUL burn time!
Perfect for lighting for a meditation, bath, kids dinner, bedtime story, yoga or any other ritual.