✨ Honeysticks: New Zealand family brand making beeswax crayons, finger paints and watercolors for toddlers and kids, with no paraffin wax.

🍃 Beeswax Crayons ingredients (as listed by Honeysticks): 100% pure beeswax and FDA-approved food-grade pigments for color. Same for Originals, Jumbos, Super Jumbos and Triangles. Honeysticks does not name the individual pigments.

🍃 Finger Paints and Watercolors (as described by Honeysticks): Honeysticks describes the finger paint as a water-based, vegan, gluten-free formula with cosmetic-grade, food-safe ingredients, and the watercolors as made with food-grade and cosmetic-grade colors, but does not publish a full ingredient list for either.

✅ The Good: The crayons are beeswax, a natural by-product of honey making, instead of the petroleum paraffin wax most crayons are made from.

💚 Progress Over Perfection: Honeysticks doesn’t say which food-grade pigments it uses. Food-grade colors can be lab-made dyes (like FD&C lake dyes), so we can’t tell you they are plant- or mineral-based. Without full lists for the paints, we can’t check what else is in them.

📦 Packaging: Honeysticks says all its packaging is recyclable and the Originals crayons are 100% plastic-free. Finger paints come in pots made from 100% reclaimed plastic inside a PEFC-certified cardboard box. Watercolors come in a recyclable metal tin.