About Bee Light Hawai’i
Owner and candle maker, Dan Tilton, was raised in the sleepy little towns of Waialua and Haleiwa and has spent the last 50 years living in Hawai’i. He grew up surfing and fishing off of the lush and tropical coasts Oahu’s North Shore. There he began his career as ceramic artist making anything from functional stoneware (mugs, plates, bowls) to Raku fired decorative pieces and hand painted hula lamps.
In 2005, Dan was fortunate to moved to Pa’auilo on the Big Island of Hawaii, another beautiful small town. He started a tree trimming and landscaping business and worked part time for Hawai’i Harvest Honey. After seeing the spectacular yellow-gold beeswax, he soon merged his ceramics background with his connection to Hawai’i Harvest Honey to create beautiful candles with their 100% certified organic beeswax. Since then his business, Bee Light Hawai’i LLC, has flourish and the beeswax candles can be found in stores all over the Islands of Hawai’i.
His 100% organic Hawaiian beeswax candles are some of the cleanest and longest burning candles you can buy. Colors vary from golden brown to golden yellow depending on what is flowering. The candles are hand poured in small batches with natural cotton wicking and the wax is filtered three times for purity. Bee Light Hawai’i LLC is an environmentally conscious company and strives for eco friendly packaging.
Organic Beeswax
Local Bees, Local Beeswax
All the beeswax is locally sourced from Hawai’i Harvest Honey, a certified organic off-the-grid apiary located in the old-growth forests on the slopes of Mauna Kea. The beeswax candle colors vary from golden brown to golden yellow depending on what is flowering. The candles are hand poured in small batches with natural cotton wicking and the beeswax is filtered three times for purity. Click Here to learn more about the benefits of organic beeswax candles.
About Hawai’i Harvest Honey
After selling their 1600-hive apiary in Vermont, Peter Genier and his wife Mary Sautter moved to Pa’auilo, Hawai’i and started over with eight hives in 2013. Hawai’i Harvest Honey was certified organic in 2015. Peter’s son, Arthur, who had been working on the island as a beekeeper, began to help with the bees. They were joined in 2018 by their old friend and extended family member, Tristan Winpenny, a fellow Vermont beekeeper who had moved to the Big Island with his family shortly after Peter and Mary. This partnership of the two generations of beekeepers is intended to allow a seamless passing of the torch in maintaining all aspects of the apiary operations as Peter and Mary gradually phase out of day-to-day operations in the coming years.
