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? Sustainability-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! * We're not allowed mention which certificate because of bizarre bureaucracy, for details search our site for 'Not allowed to say FSC'. 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]