What is bee's wax used for?!
Answers: I was at a hardware store the other day and surprisingly the only thing I saw there that didnt know what it was used for was the bee's wax at the counter. It was placed with some brownies and candy so do you eat the stuff?
Health care is one area in which beeswax is used. In the area of skin care, one can find beeswax used in lip gloss, lip balm, hand products such as creams, lotions, and moisturizers. One may also find beeswax in cosmetics, such as eye shadow, blush, and eye liner. It is also used in some pharmaceuticals.
Beeswax is also used in a number of crafts. Ukrainian Easter Eggs or Pysanky, which rely on a technique of successive dyeing from light to dark, are made by covering lighter colors with beeswax to keep them from being covered by the darker colors. It is similarly used in batik, which also relies on multiple dyeing.
Beeswax candles are prized, and required for certain religious ceremonies. Beeswax candles are both dripless and smokeless and they smell of honey. Beeswax can also be used as a based medium to affix yarn for “yarn painting” or other material for collage. Beeswax is also used in painting, in Veronese paste, used to meld brushstrokes into a uniform finish. Sculpture or jewelry may be modeled in wax, and then cast with the lost wax method.
Just as oboe and bassoon players craft their reeds, didgeridoo players craft their mouthpieces — of beeswax! In fact, beeswax is used as a sealant in reed making, too. Certain guitar and bass finishes used beeswax to give the instruments a protective coat.
Sealing wax, which was used to seal letters before the days of lickable or prepared envelopes, was originally made of a combination of beeswax with a special turpentine and coloring agent. It was molded into a stick shape, which was melted onto the letter and sealed with a stamp or impression.
Beeswax has a place in the care of musical instruments. The mouthpiece of the didgeridoo is made of a uniform beeswax ring affixed to the end. Beeswax is also an ingredient in cork grease, used to lubricate the cork joints of instruments that are stored in pieces and then fitted together for performance, as many of the woodwind instruments are.
Food uses of beeswax include glazing of fruit, candy, and baked goods, and as an ingredient in natural chewing gum. Beeswax is also used to seal cheeses. Beeswax is also the coating of choice when making Canneles de Bordeaux, a confection that is fidgety about being removed from its mold, unless the mold is first coated with beeswax.
Beeswax is used as a protective shield on concrete countertops. preventing oil and water stains and bringing out the color. It is also used as a finish for wooden kitchen implements, such as salad bowls and butcher’s blocks.
yes u do it is alomst a sweetneer
it can be used to dip a letter sealer and then seal the letter
Besides the many uses already mentioned I can mention another couple. Bees wax is used in shoe polish to keep the leather soft and give it a shine. Also in India the shoemakers
make their own stitching twine by twisting coarse cotton strands and then sealing it by running a block of bees wax along it's length to prevent the twine from unraveling.. They also frequently dig the sewing awl into the wax to enable it to be pushed into thick leather easily. If it hasn't already been mentioned , bees wax is used in furniture polish.
candles,moisturizers,lotions, body soaps, shampoo & conditioner,lip balm (for an example; Burt's Bee's), Lip gloss, eyeliner- just about every type of make up may have it. Its also used in those wax bottles that are filled with juice, and those wax lips.