Rendering Beeswax Cappings

The beeswax was full of bits of honey and brown hard cappings.

Rendering beeswax cappings.

When rendering beeswax from brood comb i highly suggest doubling or even tripling the layers of cheesecloth. Beeswax protects the skin while allowing it to breath. Cappings from your honey extraction. 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.

Kinda like washing green. Then i broke it up into pieces and wrapped it up inside two layers of fine cheesecloth and reprocessed it. Rendering beeswax is the first step in the purification process. 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.

For cleaning the wax from only one or two hives i use a very simplified process that can be completed in about an hour. But i had to clean it up a bit. Because of its anti inflammatory antibacterial and antiviral benefits we also use it in many of our soaps and skin care products. The pot should be at least 2 inches higher than the wax cappings you are rendering.

You will want to rinse at least three times. I learned this the hard way. When you spin honey there is always leftover wax and there s always a bit of honey left in that wax. Only use cool clear water to clean your beeswax cappings.

While honey is very precious beeswax cappings are even more so. What are the steps for rendering beeswax. How to clean and render beeswax every beekeeper seems to have a different method for rendering wax. We use it to make candles and reusable food wraps.

First take the wax cappings from the frames and place them in a heavy pot. Put all cappings in a large bowl and fill with water. There is also a good amount of honey still in there which. Rinse your leftover wax cappings.

The cakes of wax from this first straining. Let the wax soak for at least one hour. Once i discovered our beeswax had some small particles of crud in it i had to wait for it to solidify. I did not want that in the wax i was going to be using so it needed to be removed.

Here i have a mixture of cappings and chunks of broken comb. This part of the process is often referred to as rendering beeswax.