Thermal Testing
We always felt it. We wanted to prove it.
Since the beginning, people who use Beeswax Tips have told us the same thing we noticed ourselves: the smoke feels cooler. It made sense. Beeswax has real mass and doesn't conduct heat well, so it should pull heat out of smoke passing through it in a way a rolled piece of cardboard can't.
But "it makes sense" and "it feels cooler" aren't proof, and we weren't willing to put a claim on the box that we couldn't back up. So we bought a thermal camera and tested it against a standard cardboard tip, side by side, twice.
Here's exactly what we did and what we found.
How we tested it
We wanted to know whether the "cooler smoke" difference people report is real and measurable, so we put it on a thermal camera.
Setup. Two identical hand-rolled joints with the same flower, same fill, and same tip length. One had a Beeswax Tip and one had a standard cardboard tip. Each tip had an identical plastic straw attached as a mouthpiece so nothing warm (like a face) was in the camera's view. Both were lit together and pulled alternately, about 3 seconds per pull. We recorded with a Seek Thermal Nano 300 and read temperatures at two points: the mouth end of each tip, and the straw a few inches past the tip. The straw is thin plastic, so it tracks the temperature of what's flowing through it.
Run 1. Beeswax tip on top, cardboard on the bottom.
Run 2. Positions swapped, to rule out anything about the camera angle or slot.
What we found
| Beeswax Tip | Cardboard tip | |
|---|---|---|
| Straw past the tip, Run 1 (typical) | 96°F | 131°F |
| Straw past the tip, Run 2 (typical) | 100°F | 127°F |
| Mouth end during use, Run 1 (typical) | 115°F | 136°F |
| Mouth end during use, Run 2 (typical) | 112°F | 122°F |
Across both runs, the cardboard side was hotter downstream in every single frame we measured: 272 out of 272. The gap was 27 to 35°F on the straw.
After the last pull, the cardboard tip was back to room temperature in about four minutes. The beeswax tip was still noticeably warm seven minutes later. That's the mechanism on camera. The wax absorbed the heat and held it.
What this does and doesn't show
This was an in-house comparison against a cardboard tip, using surface temperatures read from a thermal camera. It shows that a Beeswax Tip cools smoke measurably better than cardboard. It doesn't measure anything about what's in the smoke, and it isn't a health claim. It's about temperature.
Tested September 29, 2026. Seek Thermal Nano 300, 320×240 sensor, room temperature 80°F.