Review (1/5): Not 100% bee wax
I am a beekeeper and have been using bee wax, white bought from Amazon, for encaustic art. I have ordered from other sellers but wanted an affordable, larger bag. I went with this two pound bag but when I opened it it has a strong chemical smell. While the other brands I used never smelled like my natural bee wax, they also never smelled this awful. I melted a pound of it by itself before adding it in with my damar resin. It put off a terrible odor, kinda metallic, so much so that I put on a mask, and that was in a open garage. The wax had a distinct yellow color when melted by itself as you can see in my first picture. I added it to my resin and it turned a milky color, so much so that I could not see the resin, second picture. Every other brand I have used has been clear when melted, as you can see in my photo with the paint brush, and did not turn cloudy when added to the resin. When I poured it out into trays to cool the wax was a dark yellow color, not the white it should have been and was with other brands. I know that in order to make natural bee wax white some type of bleaching process has to happen so whatever this company uses does something to the wax and omits this terrible metallic smell. I will not be buying this again and will have to dump everything I melted and clean thoroughly before starting over with another brand.