Well I've done it. Probably won't do it again.

[kbuska]

I buy my beeswax for my lip balm locally. This time my supplier didn't have any bricks of beeswax available but offered to give me some for free if I wanted to render it down myself. So I spent a couple hours on that tonight and will spend another half to an hour cleaning pots tomorrow for 5 bucks worth of beeswax. I can say I've done it but I think I will go back to buying it from him already rendered. Lol

 

[carebear]

yup. been there done that. with 10#.

never.ever.again

 

[Tegan]

Yeah I need more lard and tallow...but since I source them locally (hello label appeal) and my two sources only have un-rendered right now I think I may just have to lose my label appeal LOL. I REALLY don't want to render it myself!

I wish I could get my bee guy to render the wax into little pellets....the bricks are killing my garage floor LOL.

 

[kbuska]

Yup. Looking at the pans in the sink and thinking hmm, maybe later.

Why is the wax ruining your floor. How much wax do you melt at once? I make lip balm with it and melt a few oz at a time.

I know what you mean on label appeal. I use local milk, wax

 

[Tegan]

LOL Not from melting...from throwing the wrapped frozen bricks at the concrete floor as hard as I can to break them up. They come in three pound bricks....gotta smash em up into manageable pieces somehow! It's not really damaging the floor...it was just kinda a funny hehe.