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The Beeswax Workshop: How to Make Your Own Natural Candles, Cosmetics, Cleaners, Soaps, Healing Balms and More Kindle Edition

by Christine J. Dalziel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Over 100 recipes to transform this miracle ingredient into environmentally friendly household cleaner, personal care products, candles, and more.

Making all kinds of amazing, all-natural stuff out of beeswax is easy and fun. Packed with over 100 step-by-step recipes, The Beeswax Workshop shows you how to make beautiful gifts, household cleaners, beauty supplies and so, so much more. Projects in this book include:

HOME

• Mason Jar Candle

• English Furniture Polish

HEALTH

• Bug-Be-Gone Insect Repellent

• Chamomile Sunburn Salve

BEAUTY

• Everyday Body Butter

• Rose Lip Gloss

GARDEN

• Waterproof Shade Hat

• Nontoxic Wood Sealant

Whether you use beeswax from your backyard hive or purchase a supply, this book offers tips, tricks and techniques for getting the most out of this miracle ingredient.

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About the Author

Chris Dalziel is a teacher, author, gardener, and herbalist with 30+ years’ of growing herbs and formulating herbal remedies, skin care products, soaps, and candles. She teaches workshops and writes extensively about gardening, crafts, and medicinal herbs on her blog at JoybileeFarm.com. Beeswax is a central player in these interests.

Formerly the president of the Boundary Artisan Association and the Boundary Spinners and Weavers Guild, Chris led both organizations through 2 successful art gallery shows. She’s won awards for her textile designs and was featured in The Ashford Wheel Magazine in 2011.

Chris is a contributing writer to The Biblical Herbal Magazine, The FermenTools Blog, and the Attainable Sustainable blog. Her other books, The Beginners Book of Essential Oils and Homegrown Healing are available on Amazon.

Chris lives with her husband Robin in the mountains of British Columbia on a 140 acre ranch, with sheep, dairy goats, llamas, and a few retired chickens. They have three adult children and three granddaughters.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N0F5LNK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ulysses Press (December 20, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 20, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 23361 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 193 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #287,023 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #28 in Candle Making (Kindle Store)
- #43 in Candle Making (Books)
- #106 in Beauty, Grooming, & Style

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Chris Dalziel is the founder of the popular websites, JoybileeFarm.com and theDIYHerbal.com. Chris empowers her readers to grow their own food and medicine and preserve it so that they can confidently provide for their families. She is a grandmother, teacher, author, gardener, herbalist, and homesteader.

She is the author of The Dehydrator Cookbook for Beginners (2022, Rockridge Press), The Beeswax Workshop (2017, Ulysses Press), and Homegrown Healing from Seed to Apothecary (2016, Joybilee Media) Chris believes in giving her readers a quick win, because each quick win builds confidence and empowers self-reliance. Chris and her husband live in the mountains of British Columbia with their three dogs and three cats.

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Mtnberg

All inclusive, Buy this first.

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2024

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I wish I had bought this book first. It includes more recipes and ideas than any other alchemy book I’ve ever used.

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Danie

It does a great job of walking you through step by step on ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2017

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This book is AMAAAAAZING! I absolutely adore it. Seriously. It does a great job of walking you through step by step on how to make beautiful things. Are you into home made gifts made with beeswax? Then you will love this book! I am not going to lie, the fact that the book talks about hanukkah and havdalah candles, pulls at this nice jewish girls heart strings. Growing up and hearing and seeing very little about things to do for jewish holidays is hard but seeing this in this book made me SO happy. There is this one candle store in tzvat in israel that makes amazing candles, one of the reasons I got into beeswax so getting to make my own hanukkah candles this year was amazing. I also made some havdalah candles for my brother who is religious, he loved them. This book made it so easy to make real, beautiful and usable candles. I just completed making some hand balm, I modified it with some essential oils and couldn't be happier with the results. I am not sure what my next project from the book is going to be but I can't wait. I'm so grateful the author provides such detail abot instructions, process and how to use it. As a very literal person, I appreciate the step by step. Highly recommend this book for anyone looking to get into some beeswax crafts. This book is made for every level!

8 people found this helpful

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Zaabaa

Full of Great Things to Make!

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2017

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This book has everything you could ever hope or want to build with beeswax. I recently got into beeswax in order to make my own soaps, but I've learned you can do much more with them. This book has nine different chapter on different uses, and each category has about 20 different items to make. The staples, such as candles, soaps, and lip balms, but there is so much more. Some of the variety includes furniture polish, hot glue, waterproofing, shoe polish, crayons, and so much more. Admittedly I haven't made close to all of these, so I can't say much for their effectiveness, but the things I have made have turned out great! The instructions were easy to follow, and the book even includes shelf life time.

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Beeswax - more than just candles

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2017

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This book has recipes/instructions for literally everything you can make with beeswax! I was familiar with beeswax candles and soaps, but less familiar with perfumes—and then the recipes continued, going to beeswax for healthcare, saddle polishing, gun maintenance, violin rosin…Making your own crayons…I really never knew how much stuff you could make with beeswax. Of course not all of it is going to be useful for every person—I don’t own a saddle, for instance—but the recipes that are applicable to everyone, like shampoo or lotion, are great, and it’s very cool to see further possibilities.
The author also makes a good point about the environmental benefits of using beeswax. I was originally interested mostly because I like crafting, but I didn’t realize regular candles are derived from petroleum. It makes sense to use natural ingredients because we know they are safe.
The writing is also very clear and intelligent, and doesn’t condescend in the way some instructional books do. There’s a section at the beginning that talks about how beehives are organized, the different kinds of wax, the melting point of wax, and all the scientific information that’s good to understand while working with beeswax. It assumes you’re a beginner, so it catches you up to speed.

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AwesomeBEA

You can use beeswax for everything!!!

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2017

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I can honestly say I've never been more excited about beeswax after reading this book.
Chris Dalziel puts together information and recipes and gives us a detailed guide on making beauty, cleaning, health and decorative supplies using beeswax: the gift that keeps on giving, even though we've (collectively) taken advantage of the precious resource. Dalziel has a section where he talks about how to help the honeybee population and I immediately sent a message to my Facebook friends asking if they have any nectar-producing plants in their gardens.
Along with ways we can do our part, Dalziel gives us NUMEROUS ways to use beeswax. From waterproof matches to food wraps to baseball glove conditioner, beeswax products can be used in every part of daily life. How you decide to come upon your beeswax is solely dependent on how labor intense you are, but Dalziel writes all the recipes in the book with clear and concise language that is easy to follow. Although there may be a learning curve for making some products (shampoo bars and such) there are enough of the more simple recipes to keep your interest until you master the more complicated of the amazing beeswax products at your disposal.

9 people found this helpful

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Dianna K. Michaels

Great book with LOTS of recipes

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2018

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Great book with LOTS of recipes. I have tried many of them and have had problems with only the grafting wax .... it DID NOT come out like a putty, it was much too soft, even after adding add'l beeswax. But the book covers so many practical and handy uses for beeswax and I am loving my cutting board conditioner, food wraps, gardener's salve and many more. It's my 'go-to' resource for all things Bees Wax. Thank you Christine!!

3 people found this helpful

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Carol L

Great book!

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2018

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This book is pretty thorough. I like the format, and the recipes are wonderful. I will say, that when I got the book, although it was clearly new, there was a very sticky front cover, like a sticker had been removed at the top. It took me awhile to remove it with homemade 'goo'. Now there is a 'shiny' spot, but that doesn't effect the overall greatness of this book. I'd recommend it to everyone who wants to make their own 'stuff'!

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2018

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Be prepared to purchase a lot of other ingredients to make most of the recipes in this book.

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Tuzie

Buy this book!

Reviewed in Canada on January 23, 2020

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This book is great. There are so many recipes and uses for bees wax here that I will definitely use in the future. Almost five stars but better than 4 stars only because it would’ve been better with weights based measurements rather than volume based measurements. This is my humble opinion. For example: if the recipe calls for a quarter cup of beeswax pellets but all I have is 5 lb block hard beeswax what does that equal in weight (grams or ounces) as I would have to shred my wax first. For now I will just play with quantities and test my results but overall I am thrilled to own this book and be a part of so much knowledge, that is both practical as well as inspiring. I have already made some inspired “Gardener’s Soap” in the shape of bugs and butterflies to gift and sell by modifying the recipe from the book. Fantastic! Bring on the dirt!

HAYDEE MARTINEZ

Recetas con cera y miel

Reviewed in Mexico on December 7, 2019

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Me gusto el estilo de la redacción, es muy claro y tiene muchas recetas muy interesantes

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