Ten Pounds of Beeswax

Adam's bees are hunkered down for the winter, and he won't be taking any more honey or wax from them anytime soon. This leaves me in a lurch when it comes to making bee balm lotion and lip balm. I have no wax! And I don't want to buy commercial wax from Michael's. Adam decided to order ten pounds of organic beeswax so I could continue my production! Yay! It arrived yesterday.

These glorious gold bars weigh about 2 pounds each.

So pretty. But so hard to cut! I ended up putting a whole bar into my double boiler, melting off some of it, removing the solid residual, and doing my recipe.

I made 25 tubs of creamy bee balm lotion today. Ten of them are already promised to a customer. I'm raising the price because of the expense of the beeswax; that stuff isn't cheap!

I prefer the silver tins, but I can't find any more of them at Michael's, so I'm using the floral tins. These tins hold about 1/2 cup each.

15 tins will go to the market on Saturday. I hope they sell like hot cakes!