Sustainable Wraps was started with the use of ones sisters beeswax from her backyard hive in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda and up-cycling of the other sisters fabric stash. Below the beekeeping sister, Rachelle, answers a few questions about her interest in bees and what is involved in looking after a hive and why we use beeswax as the main ingredient of Sustainable Wraps. What made you interested in beekeeping? Growing up on the farm we had in Tasmania got me interested i

The sister with the beehive, Rachelle chats with Tanya from Eco Organiser about Beeswax Wraps. Beeswax coated wraps have been used to preserve food since in the seventh century when the Ancient Egyptians domesticated bee hives to harvest beeswax and honey. One of their uses for beeswax was to make waxed cloths which they used in the preservation of food. In 1933 the first cling wrap was invented in America as a new use for a substance named Saran, originally discovered in by