Kansas Beeswax

Raw Honey Comb

I use beeswax as a main ingredient in several of my products i.e. lotion sticks, deodorant sticks and lip butters. You can buy beeswax online...but it is usually so over process that it loses all its honey goodness.

Raw Honey Comb

 I like to get my beeswax from bee keepers here in Kansas. I received some yummy honey scented beeswax from a keeper near Pratt. My supply was running low and I need more. 

At one of the Farmers Markets I work, I met the Schmieds who own Oaksmied Honey. Ruth, Rocky and their daughter Grace. Ruth gave me a tub of raw unprocessed beeswax straight from the hive.  

Honey

I had it sitting around for a couple of weeks. Garnet got tired of looking at it and decided to process it for me. First he strained thru a metal strainer with cheese cloth to harvest the remaining honey (Garnet said he will use this to make Honey Wine). 

Garnet straining thru
cheese cloth

Cheese cloth straining

The comb was then placed in a pot with enough water to cover the comb. Turn to low boil just enough to melt the wax. 

After cooking and cooling

Stirring occasionally to make sure everything is melted. Then strain through a large metal strainer to catch the larger debris and sediments from the comb. Let it cool until wax is harden and then remelt and strain again with cheese cloth. 

Garnet and the finished product

Block of beeswax

Finished product honey and beeswax

By this time your beeswax should be clean. If its not you can melt and strain again. Let it cool over night and in the morning you will have a clean block of honey scented beeswax. 

I mix this beeswax with cocoa butter and coconut oil to become a base for my lotion sticks, natural deodorant bars and lip butters. 

This was not meant to be a tutorial. If you need information on how to process beeswax here is some links to a few tube videos and online tutorial.