Rendering beeswax in crockpot

Rendering beeswax is the process of melting beeswax from your hives and cleaning it so you can use it. Here how to do it!

How to Clean and Render Beeswax in Your Slow Cooker at Home.: In my line of work, I am privileged to meet a lot of wonderful people. Recently, I met a beautiful family with an interesting pastime - beekeeping! Hand soap and lip balm are two things I have made for my family and friends. As it goe…

Learn how to render beeswax in a crockpot with this step-by-step guide. Perfect for creating usable beeswax for your crafting projects.

How to Clean and Render Beeswax in Your Slow Cooker at Home.: In my line of work, I am privileged to meet a lot of wonderful people. Recently, I met a beautiful family with an interesting pastime - beekeeping! Hand soap and lip balm are two things I have made for my family and friends. As it goe…

One of the most valuable things that beekeepers get from our bees is the wax that they make. It's valuable in several ways, not the least of which is for the frames we give the bees to use. When bees have drawn comb (used their wax to make the honeycomb that they store honey in or use for their brood and pollen), frames can be used over several times, and that saves bees the effort of drawing new comb every time they need it. Wax that has been rendered and filtered twice So when we harvested…

When we extract honey we have to remove the little wax caps that the bees put over the cells once the honey stored has the correct water content. This wax is prized and once cleaned makes the most beautiful candles and other products. Needless to say, we collect all the wax cappings from the extraction

Rendering Beeswax: If your beekeeping efforts resulted in a honey harvest, then chances are you have wax to process. Most of my beekeeping friends give me the wax simply because they don't want to deal with it after all the effort to harvest the honey. But have no f…

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In the last post I wrote about my new honey press, which is actually a fruit press made for crushing apples and grapes. It works great for pressing honey. So after all of the honey is presse…

Filtering beeswax from your local beekeeper is essential before using it in your DIY projects. Clean filtered beeswax is necessary for everything from diy herbal salves, beeswax candlemaking, furniture polish, wood butter, beeswax ornaments, homemade lip balms, and so much more. This method is SO EASY it's the only way I do it...