USES FOR BEESWAX
1. Rub it on your iron.
2. Rub it on cookie sheets, pie and cake pans.
3. Rub it on woodscrews, nails, windows,doors and
drawers.
4. Rub it on skies, toboggans, sled runners, fishing
line, and bow
string.
5. Rub it on zippers.
6. Keeps hand-sewing thread from tangling.
7. Mix with linseed oil to make fine furniture polish
and wood
preservative.
8. Melt it to make candles and decorations.
9. Use to wax your eyebrows, mustache.
10. Used to make Eastern European Easter eggs.
11. Used to waterproof hunting boots and moccasins.
12. Used to hold gemstones while polishing and other
jewelry making.
13. Used to keep needles sharp.
14. Used to coat forged metal to prevent rusting, in
blacksmithing.
15. Use it on leather straps.
16. Mix with olive oil to make lip balm or skin cream.
17. Used in dentistry for making crowns and bridges.
18. Used in batik for making and coloring patterns on
fabric.
19. Used to make the foundation in the beehive.
20. Used to camouflage human odor on animal traps.
21. Use it to remove pin feathers when cleaning
poultry.
22. Use it to preserve sailboat masts and rails.
23. Used in cartoon animation.
24. Used in fly-tying.
25. Used to cushion braces on teeth.
26. Used to waterproof tent seams.
27. Used to loosen rusty nuts and bolts.
28. Used to line wooden water kegs and buckets.
29. Used as flux for bullet casting.
30. Season cast iron cookware.
31. Used in bone surgery.
32. Used to waterproof gourds.
33. Used in canning.
Beeswax is a natural product of Honey Bees - a
renewable resource -
as opposed to chemical waxes like paraffin, which are
made from crude
oil.
Sniff a beeswax candle and smell the flowers of the fields.
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