Quality claims in the beeswax industry are easy to make and hard to verify. We’ve been trading wax for over 10 years, and our answer to that has always been the same: test every shipment and publish what we find. Here’s the latest:

When two containers of organic beeswax arrived lately from our trusted partner in Tanzania, every single pallet got sampled and lab-tested individually. Not because we doubt the source, but because in this industry, verified data should speak for itself.

Two things get checked: adulteration (is this actually pure beeswax, or cut with paraffin, fatty acids, or tallow) and pesticide/bee treatment residue.

Adulteration: negative on all 44 pallets. No paraffin, no fatty acid additions, no tallow substitution — total hydrocarbon content sits at 13.5–13.7%, exactly where pure beeswax should be. This is invisible without a lab; you cannot see, smell, or feel adulterated wax.

Pesticides: 4 pallets came back entirely clean. The other 40 showed traces of permethrin, most commonly in the 0.01x mg/kg range — for context, the lab’s limit of quantification is 0.01 mg/kg, so these results sit barely above the threshold where the equipment can detect anything at all. Pesticide traces are essentially everywhere in today’s environment, even in a protected nature reserve like the one this wax comes from — but the levels we’re seeing here are far lower than what we typically see from other origins. A trace finding is a fact about the material’s history, not a verdict on this shipment or our supplier.

If you’re sourcing beeswax, ask for the actual lab report — not just the claim.

Full documentation available on request.

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Testing by Intertek (DAkkS-accredited, ISO/IEC 17025). Pesticides: GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS (DIN EN 15662). Adulteration: NMR (PM DE01.330:2022-05) and GC-FID hydrocarbon fingerprint (DGF M-V 6).