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Title: What can you do with extra wax?
Post by: Foxhound on August 17, 2012, 09:45:23 pm

After you have melted and strained your leftover comb, what do you use your wax for? Beekeeping related or not.

Title: Re: What can you do with extra wax?
Post by: splitrock on August 17, 2012, 10:46:46 pm

My wife makes lip balms and lotion bars from the cappings wax.

Title: Re: What can you do with extra wax?
Post by: ApalacheeRiverFarms on August 17, 2012, 10:52:10 pm

I've considered trying out lip balm...  Any tips/ suggestions?

Title: Re: What can you do with extra wax?
Post by: asprince on August 17, 2012, 11:36:08 pm

You can sell it to me.

Steve

Title: Re: What can you do with extra wax?
Post by: Kathyp on August 18, 2012, 12:33:45 am

ask annette.  she makes great stuff!

Title: Re: What can you do with extra wax?
Post by: duck on August 18, 2012, 12:50:39 am

i just sold some to a guy that I am helping out.  He used it to make a polish for one of his projects.  he does CNC on wood.

Title: Re: What can you do with extra wax?
Post by: splitrock on August 18, 2012, 07:29:06 am

"I've considered trying out lip balm...  Any tips/ suggestions?"

Use the best ingredients you can find, including the essential oils used for scent/flavor. Some of the cheaper ones just don't smell right or can foul pretty quickly. You will find that beeswax balms will do way more for a persons skin than just about any commercial product out there that does not contain it.   

It has to be pretty easy or the wife wouldn't be messing with it.

Joel

Title: Re: What can you do with extra wax?
Post by: Foxhound on August 18, 2012, 08:51:44 am

Quote from: asprince on August 17, 2012, 11:36:08 pm

You can sell it to me.

Steve

How much can you sell wax for? Do you have to sell it in certain weights or shapes? Will a beekeeper who doesn't use chemicals get more for their wax?

Title: Re: What can you do with extra wax?
Post by: JackM on August 18, 2012, 08:58:14 am

I use some on hand rubbed wood finishes, also to 'wax' guitars.

If I still skied, I would wax my skis with it. 

Door frame lubricant.

Candles

The list is actually endless.

Title: Re: What can you do with extra wax?
Post by: AllenF on August 18, 2012, 05:58:57 pm

My wife sells it also with the honey sells.   $5 a block and the blocks are about a pound, give or take.  And this is a cheap price, but they are not for show.