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Over the years I have tried different way to render wax. Melting it, trying to filter it and then I saw a video online on a bee site that changed the way I do it, and it has made it 100% more efficient!
I purchased this small crockpot at a tag sale for a couple dollars.
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| Gathered some cheesecloth... |
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| and some paper towels. |
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| Some wax I had attempted to clean last year. |
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| Then placing the paper towels across the crockpot, then laying the cheesecloth over that, and then placed the wax on top of that. |
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| I then placed the top on and turned on the heat and waited. |
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| When the wax was melted, I poured it into these ice trays I bought in a dollar store. They are the perfect mold to make quilting wax! |
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| This is the finished product! Perfectly clean wax, packaged and ready to go. I love this process! |
Genius!! I may have to borrow this idea!
ReplyDeleteThanks for that great tip! I'll be watching the flyers for a bargain on a cock pot for that purpose from now on. I pour my rendered beeswax through milk filters to get very clean wax. Maybe this winter I'll have a go at making soap.
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