Rendering Beeswax Cappings

Beeswax has a thousand and one cosmetic and domestic uses but unless a good price can be assured the most fundamental use for the beeswax crop is as new foundation.

Rendering beeswax cappings.

Rinse your leftover wax cappings. What are the steps for rendering beeswax. Then i broke it up into pieces and wrapped it up inside two layers of fine cheesecloth and reprocessed it. At this point the beeswax is still sticky and some beekeepers will choose to wash them.

Rendering beeswax ok so the idea here is to end up with pure yellow beeswax by removing all of the impurities in the raw comb and honeycomb cappings from the extraction. Kinda like washing green. But i had to clean it up a bit. Put all cappings in a large bowl and fill with water.

When rendering beeswax from brood comb i highly suggest doubling or even tripling the layers of cheesecloth. You will want to rinse at least three times. First take the wax cappings from the frames and place them in a heavy pot. It is as simple as placing your cappings in a bucket and adding water.

While honey is very precious beeswax cappings are even more so. How to clean and render beeswax every beekeeper seems to have a different method for rendering wax. Here i have a mixture of cappings and chunks of broken comb. For cleaning the wax from only one or two hives i use a very simplified process that can be completed in about an hour.

I did not want that in the wax i was going to be using so it needed to be removed. Only use cool clear water to clean your beeswax cappings. Beeswax protects the skin while allowing it to breath. We use it to make candles and reusable food wraps.

Rendering beeswax is the first step in the purification process. The cakes of wax from this first straining. Because of its anti inflammatory antibacterial and antiviral benefits we also use it in many of our soaps and skin care products. There is also a good amount of honey still in there which.

Cappings from your honey extraction. The pot should be at least 2 inches higher than the wax cappings you are rendering. This part of the process is often referred to as rendering beeswax. When you spin honey there is always leftover wax and there s always a bit of honey left in that wax.

Once i discovered our beeswax had some small particles of crud in it i had to wait for it to solidify. How to wash beeswax cappings.