Rendering Beeswax Cappings

Put all cappings in a large bowl and fill with water.

Rendering beeswax cappings.

Cappings from your honey extraction. What are the steps for rendering beeswax. Rendering beeswax is the first step in the purification process. I learned this the hard way.

Because of its anti inflammatory antibacterial and antiviral benefits we also use it in many of our soaps and skin care products. You will want to rinse at least three times. For cleaning the wax from only one or two hives i use a very simplified process that can be completed in about an hour. Rendering beeswax ok so the idea here is to end up with pure yellow beeswax by removing all of the impurities in the raw comb and honeycomb cappings from the extraction.

Beeswax protects the skin while allowing it to breath. The cakes of wax from this first straining. How to clean and render beeswax every beekeeper seems to have a different method for rendering wax. The pot should be at least 2 inches higher than the wax cappings you are rendering.

But i had to clean it up a bit. How to wash beeswax cappings. When rendering beeswax from brood comb i highly suggest doubling or even tripling the layers of cheesecloth. It is as simple as placing your cappings in a bucket and adding water.

We use it to make candles and reusable food wraps. There is also a good amount of honey still in there which. When you spin honey there is always leftover wax and there s always a bit of honey left in that wax. While honey is very precious beeswax cappings are even more so.

Only use cool clear water to clean your beeswax cappings. Kinda like washing green. Rinse your leftover wax cappings. First take the wax cappings from the frames and place them in a heavy pot.

Here i have a mixture of cappings and chunks of broken comb. Once i discovered our beeswax had some small particles of crud in it i had to wait for it to solidify. The beeswax was full of bits of honey and brown hard cappings. I did not want that in the wax i was going to be using so it needed to be removed.

Beeswax has a thousand and one cosmetic and domestic uses but unless a good price can be assured the most fundamental use for the beeswax crop is as new foundation. Let the wax soak for at least one hour.