Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Purifying bees wax.

First let me say I highly support biodynamic bees keeping. I think it,s extremely important. With monocroping, and pesticide bees are fighting a loosing battle, and the species as a whole is getting weaker and weaker. I feel everyone should have bees in their backyard provided they keep to biodynamic methods, not just for the sake of bees but for environmental balance as a whole which effects all living things. One of the standers is to only to take the left over honey in the spring. And I,ve also read that even if your not going to eat the honey it's recomended to take the left overs to increase polination of the surrounding area. Very important. That being said on with the purifying. It incredible simple. I was given some raw wax ( raw meaning dirty) by a friend who had just extracted honey from his backyard hive , the wax was jumst left over after filtration.  Simple place the wax into a nylon sack or wrap in cheese cloth tightly (old panty hose work great) simmer in a pot of water for a 30 min or until the sack seem empty. Squeeze the sack with thongs and let the pot and everything in it  cool completely. Leave over night if you what. Then simply lift your solid piece of purified wax of the top and pat dry. You may notice some small encased water bubbles, this is fine, just press down to release water and dry off. Now you are ready to use this for what ever you like. Salves, candle, or even modeling wax. Recipe to come.




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