BEES WAX

BEES WAX

INTRODUCTION TO BEES WAX

Bees wax is the miracle of the beehive. The comb is built. up from nothing and serves as a house, a nursery, and a food pantry. Over the millennia, bees have figured out that by building their comb’s into hexagons, the combs hold the most amount of honey and require the least amount of wax. The combs also serve as the perfect area for a bee to undergo its metamorphosis from egg to bee.

So what is bees wax? In the simplest terms, it is a wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis. Beeswax consists of at least 284 different compounds’, mainly a variety of long-chain alkanes, acids, esters, polyesters, and hydroxy esters, but the exact composition of beeswax varies with location. It has a specific gravity of about. 0.95 and a melting point of Over 140F(60C).

Paraffin is quite literally a “bottom-of-the-barrel” product as it is the last product to be processed from petroleum. Yes, even after asphalt (also known as black top and road tar)! Due to the nature of paraffin, it may potentially contain formaldehyde and vinyl chloride. Do you still want to slather on that face cream? On the other hand, beeswax is produced from the bee hives where the worker bees build the honeycombs. These incredible worker bees have eight wax-producing glands on their body that produce the beeswax. Worker bees will build the honeycomb in the hive, and also produce honey. Additionally, beeswax is naturally white in colour but becomes yellow or brown from pollen oils and propolis, which further enhance the benefits of the bees wax and honey.

Beeswax in cosmetic and spa industrial

Beeswax in food industry

Beeswax in candles and ….