By now, you must already bee familiar with the program, right? We, at KALIKA, help empower everyday folk to reduce personal food waste and plastic consumption by using our reusable beeswax food wraps. With the plethora of options now made available to order and arrive at your doorstep, why should you choose KALIKA over ALL the others? Let us help you decide. 

We know that using the word “best” can be provocative but look, “best” is something better than the rest. Deciding what is best obviously needs to be analysed across all possible parameters, which is just what we have done in this article! 

1. We use wild forest beeswax to make our food wraps.

Do you know what beeswax is? Do you know how honey is made? The entire process is so long and complicated, yet structured and organized, that instead of running helter-skelter when a bee buzzes your way, you will applaud that highly competent winged productivity capsule.

Essentially, beeswax is a by-product of bees’ honey-making process. Commercial acquisition of beeswax from bee farmers typically poses risks for bee welfare as humans tend to harvest all the honey. This increases the need to feed bees sugar water which, in excess, could lower overall bee productivity as they start storing sugar water in the hive in place of honey!

The good thing is that the bees get to live freely and since only the mature part of their nest is harvested, they do not have to start entirely from scratch. The downside is that this is a bit of a hazard for the forest bee farmers who have to climb massive trees, but safety is always an utmost priority and there have been no casualties thus far. 

∴ KALIKA gets beeswax from happy bees.

2. We are fair-trade.

When you harvest honey, you harvest the beeswax too. Unfortunately, most forest bee farmers do not know the true value of beeswax and simply dispose of it because it adds cost when you have to transport all that excess weight. 

KALIKA works with organizations that help educate forest bee farmers on the importance of using nature’s by-products to its full potential. This way, we know we get our beeswax in a responsible manner, and the forest bee farmers get to make additional profits from selling some gunk they would otherwise just throw away. Don’t we all just love these win-win scenarios? 

3. We get our fabric from working with local artisans.

For special edition beeswax food wraps, KALIKA works with local artisans to make batik prints that are hand stamped using 100% natural dyes. Some of these prints honestly look like they belong in a museum! So go ahead and wrap your lemon in a work of art.

Browse our shop and compare it to the typical “beehive”/ “logo” motives of other beeswax food wrap merchants, and it will be near impossible to resist. Don’t lie, you know you want to wrap a handful of cashew nuts in that pink polka-dotted one. Our prints are candy for your eyes! 

4. We produce in-house with a diverse team.

KALIKA empowers an incredibly diverse team of people (young, old, men, women, you name it!) from various walks of life to commune daily in a small workshop to produce high-quality beeswax food wraps. Tender (and gloved) hands have crafted with the finest attention to detail, to perfect every single KALIKA. No big machinery, just manual labour and love.

5. We ensure our products are affordable.

This time, browse the other sellers of beeswax food wraps and look at how much wanting to live more sustainably will cost you. KALIKA ensures that everyone can be a part of the solution by ensuring that our products are kept affordable. Costing you at least 40% less than the market average, it’s an investment, bargain and a great deal every single time. 

The stubborn adversaries should also stop fixating on how much money one spends on the wrap, instead on how much money one saves from throwing food in the bin. These beeswax food wraps are also re-u-sa-ble! We guarantee that if you actually did the math of calculating the cost of not using the wrap versus using it, you will regret not owning a KALIKA much sooner.

6. We have a recipe that works wonders.

Our recipe which combines wild forest beeswax, tree resin and coconut oil, was a laborious undertaking of over 6 months worth of trial and error before we found one that… sticks!

Naturally, multiple home experiments, countless gooey accidents and competitor analysis are all part and parcel of the process. Yet, we eventually found a recipe that keeps the beeswax food wrap tight and taut around whatever it is you are trying to keep fresh longer.

7. We try to be waste-free.

The best part about small companies, is that you can control virtually every single thing that goes on in it. Our aim, for both business and production, has always been to create a simple 2-in-1 solution on how to reduce food waste and plastic pollution. 

With in-house production powered by a team of skilled and dedicated worker bees, we make sure that almost nothing goes to waste. Even the fabrics are pre-measured before ordering and are trimmed with such precision, that loose threads littering the floor like cat hair is all the waste we ever see. 

Where most companies struggle to practice zero-waste as their commercial ambitions often far override sustainable practices, we are proud to say that we make every possible effort to be waste free.

So, to wrap up…

Are you convinced yet? Or is there a parameter we are missing out? Let us know in the comments what you think, or rather, which KALIKA you decided to buy!