Beeswax Wraps - Some Cool Uses!
Channel: Neshikha Bees
Date: 2019-08-11

Bee cool as a cucumber using our BeEco wax wraps. Our Neshikha wax wrap kit comes with our special wax blend, which is a mixture of our BeEco beeswax,
organic hemp seed oil, and tree resin. The kit also includes three, pre-cut pieces of cotton fabric, and easy-to-follow
instructions for you to make eco-friendly beeswax wraps at home.

Maintaining sustainable practices at home can mean taking a little extra time here and there, slowing down and enjoying the process rather than hurrying for convenience. Making your own, as opposed to buying, can reduce your carbon footprint even further by recycling old fabric and reducing packaging.

This kit contains more wax than the provided fabric requires, so feel free to experiment even further by using some old clothes (100% cotton is best) to make more wraps of your own. Have fun!

What is BeEco wax?
It’s the term we use for our ecologically maintained and harvested beeswax. Here’s why we think that’s important:

• Beeswax has been used since the beginning of civilization. Found in Pharaoh's tombs, sunken Viking ships, and Roman ruins - beeswax is basically the duct tape of antiquity, with thousands of uses.

• Bees secrete wax from special glands on the underside of their
abdomen. They only produce wax for 2-4 days of their 6-week life span. The amount of wax they produce in that time is about the size of a fingernail paring. Other members of the hive shape this new wax into the classic, hexagonal-shaped honeycombs. But honeycomb is used for more than just honey!

• Inside the hive, bees: eat, sleep, communicate, raise the young from eggs, store nectar (which can later become honey), store pollen, store a mixture of nectar and pollen called bee bread, and much more.

That honeycomb gets used again and again and again. Over time it’s color changes from almost white to dark brown, but something else happens too. It becomes infused with the smell of the hive — honey!

• BeEco wax (we totally created that name) is wax that has been used by the bees for at least 3 years before we harvest it. They work really hard to make and maintain that wax, and we work hard to make sure they can use it as long as possible.