I don't know where you live, but there are beekeepers virtually everywhere in this country. Every state has an Agriculture Extension office, associated with its University system, in virtually every county. They will know where the nearest beekeeper is to you.
Call them.
Beeswax is a by product of the honey they produce and sell. If your town or city has a farmer's market during the Spring, Summer and Fall, as many cities now do, you will usually find someone there selling honey. If they don't have some beeswax with them, they will be happy to fill your order the next weekend. Otherwise, you can drive out to their farms, and pick up all the beeswax you want.
Unless someone has a HUGE bee operation, the amount of beeswax they produce each year does not bring them much money from the wholesalers who buy it, then purify it some, and cast it into those EXPENSIVE bricks, or rounds you find in stores. You may have to strain the heated beeswax through a cotton filter( a clean, Old, T-shirt works wonders)- but you can get as much beeswax as you want from your local people, for very little money.
I was shocked when I saw what a couple of stores here were charging for a couple of oz. of beeswax. I have a brick that weighs more than 2 lbs. in my garage that was given to me years ago by my father, so I am not personally in the market for more beeswax. A phone call to your local Farm Bureau office will also probably give you the names and phone numbers of local beekeepers.
If you have forgotten your basic science courses- I had teachers who could put a whole class to sleep faster than any drugs I have known since-- bees are necessary for the pollination of most all crops and flowering trees. Beekeepers actually are paid money by some orchards, or farms, to set up bee hives on those properties so that pollination can take place and the plantings can bear "fruit". Very few plants and trees are self-pollinating.
And remember that honey is nature's antiseptic- it will not spoil, and can be used to kill bacteria, and to protect wounds from infection. It tastes good, too. So, buy some of the beekeeper's honey, while you are there. :wink: :thumbsup:
