The unique natural product - beeswax - still conceals in itself riddles, opening the possible fields of the application. Scientists did not manage to synthesize this product artificially, forcing people to address the little noble assistants, bees once again.
Uniqueness of composition of beeswax And externally and on structure beeswax reminds fat, however, unlike fat, at the heart of this difficult natural product containing about three hundred components air lies. The water, carotinoids painting, aromatic, mineral substances, propolis, pollen - here only a part of those components of components which are might contain by beeswax.
Wax is long stored and does not change the main physical and chemical characteristics for many hundreds of years, and at the correct relation even keeps initial taste and aroma.
Carbohydrates, fatty alcohols and acids, esters - such is the main chemical composition of this product, surprising on the properties. The variety of the components which are a part of this natural product is given it by special property of plasticity, an opportunity to melt at rather low temperatures.
Wax has pleasant hardly distinguishable honey aroma, is perfectly chewed and even has quite good taste in case of receiving wax from high-quality raw materials.
Production of waxIt is impossible to tell that bees do wax. Initially wax represents the product developed by special glands of the bees who stopped production of a special uterine milk. The wax plates which are formed on a paunch of a bee are dissolved by a physiological secret of an insect and formed in seamless cells of hundreds. The cells which originally have the yellowish shade determined directly by type of the pollen used by a bee, over time find dark brown color, become smaller and are discarded by bees. This discarded wax also goes to industrial production for processing. Depending on a way which process wax into the industries he is: - pasechny or melted; - press - received by an extraction hydraulic presses; - extraction - with use of gasoline; - bleached in the solar or chemical way.
Neither rosin, nor paraffin are capable to dilute somehow natural beeswax, at once forcing to feel a fake thanks to change of the main properties given to wax by the nature.
Beeswax found the application both in different types of the modern industry, and in medicine. Ointments, lipstick, nourishing creams known to us are also quite often made of this unique natural product. Painting, cosmetology and even the food industry - all this areas which do not do without use of wax or its components.