A medium beeswax wrap (27cm x 27cm) is suitable for a myriad of uses including wrapping:
- cheeses
- bunch of baby carrots (tops cut off)
- bunch of asparagus
- corn on the cob
- beetroots
- 1/2 rockmelon, pineapple etc (you don't need to cover
- bunch of grapes
- 1/4 cabbage
- covering smaller bowls
A large beeswax wrap (37cm x 27cm) is suitable for many uses including wrapping:
- cauliflower
- broccoli
- many lettuce varieties
- covering larger bowls
- sourdough sandwich for work/school
- 1/2 cabbage
- smallish 1/2 watermelon (you don't need to cover the hard skin)
- or cut it into quarters for 4 x small wraps
An XL beeswax wrap (40cm x 54cm) is a workhorse for covering:
- celery
- rainbow chard
- English spinach
- platters
- smaller loaf of sourdough
- or cut in smaller sizes if required.
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.
We decided that we wanted to have a range of super affordable beeswax wraps for when your tastes are simpler... ie you love 'colours' or 'neutrals'!!! Don't worry, being Queen B, ALL of our fabrics are stylish (in our humble opinion).
With our other ranges, we decided that we wanted to also offer wraps that have an artistic element. Wraps that were as beautiful as they were functional. Wraps that demanded to be used because they were so darn beautiful. Simply speaking the fabrics just cost us a lot more because there is an artist in the equation that also needs to be paid (properly) or, in the case of the Liberty fabrics, they're made in near Lake Como in Italy.
You mean apart from the 20 years of expertise, the stunning fabrics and our uncompromised ethics?
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.
