Wax Harvesting

[enrico]

I've tried all of these things over the years. They take loads of time and effort and really are not worth it except for self satisfaction. Even candles are a waste of time, getting the wick size right is hard work! I just eat/sell my honey and light fires with the wax. No mead candles or beauty creams for me any more!

 

[oliver90owner]

Mead might do you some 'good' but probably too far gone for the beauty cream?

Could use the wax for hair removal, I suppose. May be a bit too hot for that without something else in it?

 

[johna]

ITMA , I put a thermometer in my solar wax extractor this year and on a sunny mid-summer day the temperature reache 92 deg centigrade. Methinks it would take an asbestos coated pathogen to survive that day after day - so I'm pretty well convinced that this treatment will sterilize the wax. If I was unfortunate enough to have bees infected with AFB or EFB then standard destruction of bees wax and equipment would be followed.