Dr. Laura Ohl of Science Buddies designed an experiment to compare Beeswax Food Wraps to plastic wraps. The experiment compares the durability, heat resistance, and sealing effectiveness of beeswax wraps to plastic wraps. Beeswax food wraps win the test.

The number of companies selling beeswax food wraps is increasing; the Farmer’s Cupboard lists 13 of those companies. Other beeswax wrap companies sell on Etsy, Amazon and Ebay.

Many of those companies are environmental activists and believe, like Beeswrap that “If every American household swapped plastic wrap with Bee’s Wrap we’d save a staggering 212 million square feet (4.8 million acres) of plastic from the planet each year.”

If you buy any Beeswax food warps, here are Tips on how to best clean and preserve them from Australia’s HoneyBeeWrap.