Beeswax Alchemy: How to Make Your Own Soap, Candles, Balms, Creams, and Salves from the Hive

Beeswax Alchemy: How to Make Your Own Soap, Candles, Balms, Creams, and Salves from the Hive

by Petra Ahnert
Beeswax Alchemy: How to Make Your Own Soap, Candles, Balms, Creams, and Salves from the Hive

Beeswax Alchemy: How to Make Your Own Soap, Candles, Balms, Creams, and Salves from the Hive

by Petra Ahnert

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Overview

Featuring over 40 DIY projects that illustrate how to transform one of the world’s most natural ingredients into tangible creations, Beeswax Alchemy is the perfect amalgamation of recipe craft book and beekeepers’ guide.

Considered the miracle of the beehive and used by humans for 8,000 years, beeswax remains a vital ingredient to society and is still used as the foundation for many household products in the twenty-first century. Learn from apiarist and entrepreneur Petra Ahnert about the history of beeswax, as well as tips and techniques on how to mold it into beautiful, reusable creations.
 
An introduction details the different ways in which beeswax has been used throughout history, as well as the products that contain it today. You’ll also find an explanation of the different types of beeswax, as well as insider tips on working with beeswax, followed by step-by-step instructions for making candles, balms, salves, creams, scrubs, soaps, ornaments, art, and more out of beeswax (either your own or store-bought). Color photos illustrate the processes and show finished results throughout. Among the useful and beautiful things you’ll learn to make out of beeswax:

  • Hand-Dipped Birthday Candles
  • Lip Balm with Cocoa Butter
  • Rosebud Salve
  • Solid Natural Perfumes
  • Honey, Oats, and Beeswax Soap
  • Beeswax Luminaries

Whether you are an expert beekeeper or experimental crafter, Beeswax Alchemy is the best guide for anyone aspiring to make wellness-boosting treasures to keep or gift to friends and family.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781592539796
Publisher: Quarry Books
Publication date: 04/01/2015
Pages: 136
Sales rank: 132,591
Product dimensions: 8.10(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Petra Ahnert is the creative force behind Beehive Alchemy (beehivealchemy.com), an artisan soap, body care, and home goods business. After a serendipitous meeting with a beekeeper at the library in 2002, Petra soon had a couple hives of her own and extra honey to sell. Since that time, she has sought out ways to make good use of the extra wax, too, often replacing items in her home with ones she can create herself. Eventually, these beeswax-based items made their way into the product line-up for Beehive Alchemy and the projects featured in her book, Beeswax Alchemy.  

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Beeswax Alchemy. 1
Preface. 6
 Introduction to Beeswax. 7
Brief history of Beeswax. 9
 How beeswax is used today. 10
The Wax. 12
 Where to get it and what it will look like. 12
Beekeepers Wax. 12
Candle Wax. 13
White Wax. 13
Brood Wax. 14
Insider tips. 14
                Recipe Usage Guide
Small amounts of beeswax. 14
Use the Freezer. 15
Protect Surfaces. 15
Cleaning up utensils. 15
Candle making. 15
Rolled Candles. 16
Rolled Taper Candles. 16
Rolled Pillar Candles. 17
Molded Candles. 18
 Votive candles. 18
Molded Pillar Candles. 19
Hand Dipped Candles. 21
Hand dipped Taper Candles. 21
 Hand dipped Birthday Candles. 23
Balms and Glosses. 24
 Lip balm (In tubes). 24
Basic Lip Balm.. 24
Lip Balm with butters. 25
Lip Gloss. 26
Solid Lotion Bar. 26
 Solid Lotion Bars. 27
Massage Bar. 27
Cuticle Balm.. 28
Heel Balm.. 29
Chest Rub. 29
 Non-Petroleum Jelly. 30
Salves, Creams and Scrubs. 30
Salve Master Recipe. 31
Oil Herbal Infusion. 31
All-purpose salve. 32
Cracked skin salve. 32
Burn salve. 33
Itch soother. 33
Rosebud salve. 34
 Woodworkers Salve. 34
Icy Joint & Muscle Balm.. 35
Emulsifying sugar scrub. 35
Beeswax Cream.. 36Solid natural Perfumes. 38 Solid perfume base balm recipe. 38
Solid Perfume master recipe. 39
Perfume essential oil blends. 39Soaps. 41 Starter Recipe (no beeswax or honey). 43
 Honey and Beeswax soap (Cold process recipe). 45
 Honey, Oats, and Beeswax soap (Hot process recipe). 46 Home Products. 47Beeswax Ornaments. 48
Beeswax dipped leaves. 48
Beeswax Pinecone Firestarters. 49
 Beeswax Luminaries. 50
Cutting board conditioner. 51
 Solid wood Polish. 51
Wood conditioner cream.. 51
 Beeswax Polish. 51
 Waxed fabric. 52
Waterproof sneakers. 52
Waxed Cotton Sandwich Wraps. 53
Beading and sewing. 54
 Thread conditioner. 54
 Batik. 55
 Batik Napkins. 56
 Batik Dish towels. 57
Encaustic. 59
 Encaustic medium.. 59
 Master batch. 60
Encaustic paints. 60
Painting with Encaustics. 61
 Encaustic collage. 62
 Recipe Usage Guide. 63
 Using Percentages. 63
 Ingredient Guide. 64
 Butters. 64
 Oils. 64
 Miscellaneous. 68
 Fatty Acid Glossary. 69
 Herbs. 70
 Essential Oils. 71
 
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