Made from natural beeswax and a small list of other ingredients so natural, they're all edible! Including a bitter-tasting edible salt to deter the crayons being eaten (the child would be fine but it'd be a waste of the crayons!) A chunk shape that's easy for little hands to hold and rectangular (less choke-able than circular/spherical shapes - but please always supervise children under 3). The flat edges work well for colouring-over leaves etc under the page; for shaving onto paper then melting with a warm hairdryer; you can get all kinds of creative :-) What it contains: 1 x cardboard box with 6 or 12 coloured wax blocks, each 24 mm x 11mm x 42mm Feel great about where it comes from: Raw materials from Europe? Yes- Germany Organic? Not yet certified but ingredients are sourced from local farms many of which practice organic farming Manufactured in Europe? Yes - Germany What's it made from? Vegetable stearines, pure beeswax (>25%), purified champagne chalk, lanolin (wool fat), silica acid, colourants (mostly food extracts plus some carefully-chosen organic pigments, stabilized earth- and mineral pigments) What's it packaged in? FSC-certified cardboard box Shipping packaging from manufacturer to us: Cardboard box Plastic-free? Yes Vegan? No - includes beeswax and lanolin Animal-cruelty-free? Yes Reused, upcycled or recycled? Not yet! Feel great about where it goes after you've used it: Biodegradable / compostable? Yes! Reusable / refillable? N/A Recyclable? Yes Feel great about you and your child using it: Great for ages: All but children under 3 need to be supervised using everything, basically :-) Shelf life: Indefinite Safety standards met: European toy safety standards; CE-marked Solvent-free? Yes Gluten-free? Yes Peanut-free? Yes Soy-free? Yes Lactose-free? Yes Easy to wash-off clothes skin? Yes Improvements we're working on in this product: Substitute the non-vegan ingredient [Search terms: bees wax, bee wax]