I Was Filtering Beeswax Like A FOOL!

I Was Filtering Beeswax Like A FOOL!

How To Filter Beeswax - Simple Beeswax Filtering - Cheap Beeswax Render

Beeswax is created by bees and is used for storing many materials within the beehive. It’s used for storing honey and pollen and home to eggs and larvae that are capped with beeswax before they emerge as young honey bees.

Filtering beeswax can be a difficult job. You might be wondering, what’s the best way to filter beeswax or what’s the simplest method for filtering beeswax. In this video I show you the easiest method for filtering beeswax.

This method for coarse filtering beeswax provides a relatively queen wax that only requires minimal processing for further use.

This beeswax filtering method is cheap, effective and doesn’t cost much money.

Once you have filtered beeswax, it can be used to make beeswax wraps, lotions or hand creams.

The pillow case that has been used to filter beeswax can be reused again and again and at the end of its life, it can be used as an effective honey bee swarm trap.

If you are looking for a cheap method to filter beeswax or the best method to filter beeswax, this is the video for you.

If you want to melt beeswax frames or render dirty beeswax, I will do another video showing some simpler steps to achieve this.

How to render beeswax is a question that is often asked as people would like to make use of the beeswax within their hives. Rendering beeswax is a really fun activity and gives you an excellent end product. Melting beeswax for beeswax rendering fills the room with the smell of molten beeswax.

If you want to know how the melt beeswax for beeswax rendering, then you need to heat the beeswax up to around 65-70c. Don’t heat the beeswax up over 70c as this can reduce the quality of the beeswax.

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[Donnie_M.]

If you pre-rinse your cappings/scrapings a few times with just room temp water to dissolve away the honey residue but not melt any wax, you'll eliminate a lot of that overcooked honey sludge.

[alvindueck]

Beeswax typically melts within a range of 62 to 64°C (144 to 147°F), but discoloration can occur above 85°C (185°F), and the flash point (where it can ignite) is around 204°C (400°F)

[magbecker]

In Germany we use tights to clean the wax. You can stretch it over the bucket. And if you cool down the wax in an isolated box, it will not tear/rip.
Kind regards from Germany

[timefly]

if you are running out of old pillow cases, you can use paint strainers from your hardware store. probably are cheaper too, unless you can get REALLY cheap pillow cases from where ever.

[GlynisDance]

Thank you - great video! To the point and clear. My son is making some wax polish to use with his school design and technology project, using wax cappings from his bees. This is exactly the sort of easy method we need!

[tonyhill]

Thank you for a nice, concise video. Most others are 15 minutes long. THANK YOU for being quick!

[sidelinerbeekeeper]

If you pour your wax on water you won't get the burnt honey on the bottom. Just add water to your bucket first.

[Paddy-X]

Nice one! A good practice is also have a more corse filter 1st as fine filters get blocked faster so starting with corse stops larger particles killing the fine filter quickly.

[masco]

This's the best method I've ever seen so far, thanks...

[beebob]

Very nice. I just scraped six buckets of old black comb and whatever was around in the shed. I ended up with 13 pounds of beeswax. It’s about the same color as yours. I put it in storage to do a final filter through a sweat shirt and get it in bread pan size blocks.
I like your pillow case or old sheet method too.

[bot.]

Some of thats bee bread dear. Precious stuff

[wildwaysfarm]

It looks like a massive block of cheese. Amazing Laurence. Well done

[BobBobbler-oy]

arrr-sigh and

such a refreshing change to find a fellow Brit doing 'How-to's'
excellent video so double thumbs from me Boss

I find american videos so tiresome and so prolific on here, why they have to make the simple sound so clever and complicated I will never understand but hey-ho.

You've done an excellent job here so thank you very much indeed

[darren_bassett]

Thank you, I have been struggling to clean my wax.

[BrooklandsHoneyBees]

Great video! Definitely a method I will be trying!

[JoshFlack]

Are you able to reuse the pillow case, or is this a one time use deal?

[MansfieldPestControl]

Great stuff, again.... i will give this a go.

[world-suppliers]

In our country, the foundation comb is made 90%of paraffin, so during capping, we can pull off some of the foundation ( paraffin ) do you think that the method you explain in the video can succeed in separating the paraffin from the pure beeswax? Thanks

[sinisterhipp]

Ah pillow case. Tim favourite method from Way Out West channel.

[chivone]

When you filtered it through the pillow case and it solidified in the bucket, you turned it upside down and there was some brownish residue on the bottom. Did you just have to scrape this off? I noticed the wax I bought at the co-op that I made candles with burned terribly, I wonder if it was because it wasn't filtered? Should that be scraped off?