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Bee-Friendly Beauty Products

KBB Editor — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 07:45:35 +0000

Visiting more than 2 million flowers to produce a single pound of honey, bees are some of the hardest workers on our planet — and quite possibly nature’s best cosmetologists. These wondrous winged creatures pollinate about one-sixth of the world’s flowering plant species and about 400 agricultural plants, and from their hard work springs forth […]

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Honeybee Products Besides Honey

KBB Editor — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 22:23:35 +0000

Honey is as sensational as it is sweet, but if you thought that honey-making was the only work occupying bees inside that hive, think again. A mind-boggling array of insect activities is creating amazing honeybee products right under our noses. And our noses themselves even benefit, since some of these products can be used to treat […]

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How to Clean, Melt and Store Beeswax

KBB Editor — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:54:17 +0000

As the beekeeping season comes to a close and my hives need less of my time, I’m confronted with the jars and bags and racks and bowls of beeswax all over my house patiently awaiting my attention. There are a million methods for all things beekeeping out there but I’d like to share this very […]

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Lavender Honey Scented Body Butter

Claire Jones — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:34:19 +0000

Christmas shopping just got easier after making a batch of my lavender honey-scented body butter. Easy to whip up in a couple of hours, this body butter is a smooth emollient welcome on winter parched skin. And what better way to put to use the beeswax & honey that I gathered from the hive this summer? […]

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Beeswax – Honeybee Gift

Claire Jones — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:08:18 +0000

As a beekeeper for over 20 years, I have accumulated pounds of beeswax as a welcome product of my hives. A substance formed by insects, it is simply amazing that it has been used for millennia, even found in the tombs of pharaohs, caulking the ships of Vikings. Think of it as the duct tape […]

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Clean beeswax from kitchen utensils

Nancy Buffington — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 22:56:06 +0000

If you happen to melt wax in your good double boiler or like me, ‘ruin’ something by dipping it in melted beeswax, it is salvageable. With hot water, paper towels, vegetable oil and dish detergent, you can clean those "ruined" items right up.

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Beeswax Wood Polish

Nancy Buffington — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 01:18:29 +0000

If you are one of the many people going green with cleaning products, you may be interested in using beeswax and olive oil for your furniture polish.

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Using Beeswax for Metal Work

Jennifer Sartell — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:21:21 +0000

Zach uses a lot of beeswax in his metal work. We had been purchasing our wax from a local supplier, but it can be rather expensive and with good reason!

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Why Do Bees Build in Hexagons?

KBB Editor — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:09:06 +0000

If you study a honeycomb, you'll notice that it's composed solely of hexagonal (or six sided) designs in wax. Why, of all the possible shapes, why do bees prefer these ones?

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DIY Dipped Beeswax Candles

Jennifer Sartell — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:16:16 +0000

Learn how to make dipped beeswax candles to give as gifts or to enjoy on long winter nights.

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