Buzz Balms Australia. Beautiful all natural balms for Horses & Humans

About Us

Hello!

We're the faces behind Buzz Balms - Hilda and Cal, a couple from Brisbane. She was an Environmental Scientist and he a Sunshine Coast Cowboy turned Beekeeper.

Fast forward past the bar where girl meets boy, wedding bells and a few years to a fridge full of beeswax from Cal's bees at Honey Buzz Apiary. Add in the chestnut to the right, appropriately named Blaze, experiencing reoccurring abscesses for months and Buzz Balms' first product the Hoof Hydrator was created.
After researching the amazing properties of beeswax and little success using various other products, Hilda set about making the beeswax based hoof balm... and it worked!

Nevermist Photography Couples horse photoshoot

The Journey

After creating the Hoof Hydrator, the Buzz Balms journey had just begun. Frustrated with the amount of plastic packaging and imported products available to Equestrians, Hilda set about bee-ing the change she wished to see and so Buzz Balms was born. Buzz Balms aims to create all natural beeswax products for the Environmentally Conscious Equestrian. The range quickly expanded to include a Leather Balm, Braiding Balms, Bit Butter and even locally sourced Shampoo Bars and more.

Finally, a better alternative for Equestrians that actually works!

Our Commitment

Our impact on the planet is a central focus of Buzz Balms. We believe that a business needs to consider the impact of its packaging, both of the product and shipping. To ship a natural product in plastic only adds to our current overconsumption of plastic. We need to bee better.

That's why we are committed to shipping plastic free using a mix of recycled mailers and cardboard boxes that are both recyclable and compostable.

We seal our boxes with either water activated cardboard tape or compostable sticky tape. Several of our products contain compostable labels such as our Lip Balms, Braid Beehaves and Shampoo Bars. All domestic shipping labels are also compostable. in fact our extensive use of compostable packaging earnt us the 2024 Hero Packaging Sustainability Award.

Our products are packaged in aluminium tins which, unlike plastic, can be infinitely recycled with the Australian Aluminium Council estimating that 75%of the aluminium ever made is still in circulation today. Plastic on the other hand can only be downcycled with almost all plastic ever produced ending up in the environment. We also make use of cardboard push tubes for our Braiding Balms and Lip Balm.

Our vision is to continue to create environmentally conscious products that allow our customers the choice to bee part of the solution.

He's a keeper!

A beekeeper that is!

Cal started beekeeping at the early age of 13 under the guidance of two commercial beekeepers. His buzzing enthusiasm for the bees and their honey is what lead to the name of Honey Buzz Apiary. After completing two trades he found his passion remained in beekeeping and he has continued to expand his hives. It's pretty unique to produce the beeswax balms on the same site the wax is harvested! As Buzz Balms has continued to grow, so too has the demand for beeswax. We now also source beeswax from other local beekeepers in addition to the wax we produce at home.

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