Beeswax is one of the products made by bees. It is widely used in the industry, medicine and cosmetology. At home it is necessary to melt wax most often to do house candles, they can be melted in various forms, to choose color which is pleasant to you, to add aromatic oil.
It is required to you
- The metal enameled ware
Instruction
1. The vessel with wax cannot be put directly on fire, it, also as well as paraffin, melt on water bath. Prepare the metal enameled ware in which it is possible to place wax. The mug or pan of the small size will approach. Convenient handles will help to remove wax from fire at the right time.
2. Put ware with water in which place vessel with wax for water bath, on fire. It is convenient to use blowpipe as after switching off it ceases to heat at once whereas electric still some time continues to heat ware by inertia.
3. While water is heated, cut wax into small pieces, or grate. Wax for epilation can melt also without it, but it is better to crush material for candles. If you melt special cosmetic product, then heating even less, than can be enough for it for 50 degrees Celsius, but normal natural beeswax has melting temperature about 62-65 degrees.
4. When water heats up, it is possible to place vessel with wax on water bath. Stirring slowly with wax that it did not burn, wait until it turns into homogeneous mass. If you do candles then while wax only has begun to melt, it is necessary to fill up dyes. Usually as such additives children's wax crayons are used.
5. The melted wax becomes liquid so it is possible to pour it in form which you have prepared in advance. When it stiffens, its volume will decrease a little in comparison with that how many it borrowed in liquid state therefore it is simple to get the stiffened wax from form. Just in case it is possible to grease vessel with soap, then it will be even simpler to take out wax.