From Slovenia to Venezuela and Back
Hi! We’re Rosa and Alexandra, two Slovenian-Venezuelan sisters born in Caracas, Venezuela and raised by our grandmother, Nežka Žibert, who was born in Britof pri Kranju.
We grew up in a home filled with polenta and arepas, singing both La Vaca Mariposa and Marko Skače.
If you'd like to learn more about our family's story, you can read about it here.
After spending years apart, we eventually found ourselves together again in Slovenia — the land of our grandmother.
CocoBee started from our love for candles. We loved the atmosphere they created, but we had no idea what was actually inside many mass-produced candles.
It wasn't until Rosa began suffering from recurring headaches that we started paying closer attention to what was inside the candles we were burning.
That’s when we decided to start making our own.
Natural candles made from pure beeswax, coconut wax, and essential oils. Better for your health, better for your home, and better for the environment.
What Makes CocoBee Different?
Our Philosophy
We believe sustainability starts with honesty. Many candle materials are marketed as “green” without acknowledging the full environmental cost behind them. Our approach is different: we choose ingredients that genuinely support ecological balance.
Beeswax
A natural byproduct of healthy beekeeping, beeswax supports pollination — one of the most essential ecological services on the planet. It needs only gentle filtration, and its clean-burning properties set the benchmark for purity.
Coconut Wax
Derived from perennial coconut palms, this wax requires minimal agricultural inputs and grows naturally in multi-layered tropical ecosystems. It burns cleanly, contains no synthetic stabilizers, and requires far less processing than commodity crops like soy.
Why Not Soy?
Despite its eco-friendly reputation, soy is part of one of the world’s largest monoculture systems, linked to deforestation, soil degradation, and high chemical use.
Soy wax itself undergoes extensive industrial treatment before it resembles anything like a candle wax.
A Better Way
By working with materials that are both clean-burning and responsibly sourced, we aim to create candles that feel good in every way — for your home, your senses, and the environment.
Thank you for being here. We can’t wait to share more of our journey with you!
Rosa & Alexandra
CocoBee
