Looking for some help, I started a wee blog on the pile of wax I seem to have accumulated, any feedback is appreciated
https://www.instagram.com/boot_wax/
https://www.instagram.com/boot_wax/
Looking for some help, I started a wee blog on the pile of wax I seem to have accumulated, any feedback is appreciated
https://www.instagram.com/boot_wax/
Interesting, how much wax do you get out of a hive? Just out of interest?
Any recommendations for traditional Swedish got wax would be appreciated, I searched about and found some made from bear fat, 100% lanolin, mink oil but I wasn’t sure what was the goto product used in Sweden? Any help appreciated!Johnnytheboy, you need to get some traditional Swedish leather stuff!
That’s really interesting always fancied bee keeping, just don’t have the space unfortunately!Depending on how much random
Comb they build in places I don’t want it, and how many old frames I am swapping out (part of pest management) - this year I got about 1.5kg from 2 hives, last year about half that. Not expecting much more next year as I did some comb changes this year but we will see!
That’s really interesting always fancied bee keeping, just don’t have the space unfortunately!
That’s really interesting always fancied bee keeping, just don’t have the space unfortunately!
Sno-Seal is the most effective boot wax for wet and winter I’ve ever found apart from the original Nikwax, one treatment lasts my boots a winter season. Effax is pretty good too, it’s for saddles, tack, and riding boots but is soft and needs regular application. My dad kept bees for most of my childhood and we used it mainly for wood and leather treatments. My dad put it in a tilted box lined with foil with a pane of glass on top and left all the wax out in the sun so it melted and slowly ran to one end. Genuine Turpentine rather than petroleum products as thinners makes a fragrant and really effective wax. There are loads of recipes for wood and leather mixtures on the internet. The turps or liquid paraffin takes the wax in nice and deep so it sets as the volatile compounds release.
I’m currently enjoying, and equally annoyed by, an experimental tache that is getting longer. I’ve tried various waxes to stick the thing in place, and beeswax is the absolute key to fixing it. There’s a very healthy market out there for natural tache and beard products at the moment, so invest in some 10ml tins, nicely designed stickers and sell a niche product on the Bay? The cool and keenest shiny bearded hipster doesn’t want petroleum products in the mix. I’ll add that I’m not cool or keen, or shiny bearded, but I’ve looked at the market and it’s selling for silly money. Capt Fawcetts Expedition Strength Moustache Wax 15ml tin costs about a tenner or more and uses liquid paraffin as a thinner. Lanolin and Shea butter are better ingredients. There’s a diy guide here.
https://beardoholic.com/diy-homemade-mustache-wax/
Also, good quality beeswax that has the honey scent can be hard to find and fetches a premium. There are a lot of blocks of very standard light yellow rubbish out there.
3 am! I’m off to the Insomniacs Unite thread.
Yeah bottling up honey is one thing you can do easily. Making what is classed as cosmetics is much harder and you have to be licensed iirc - my other half looked into, but has shelved it for the moment due to the regulatory hoops involved in making your own cosmetics