Honey bee wax is widely used for health benefits as well as among women for cosmetic purpose.Women largely make use of honey bee wax for body hair removal.

Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey and have been kept by humans for that purpose, including the stingless honey bees, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees.