To: maxncompany who wrote (121305 ) 7/2/2008 3:23:49 PM From: E. Charters Respond to The wax is good for you. Has saponifants, and make a good laxative. I believe it helps with cholesterol transport. It is not supposed to digest. It has anti-oxidants in it. The edible coating on cheese is beeswax. Beeswax and petroleum jelly in a 60-40 combination makes a grease that will adhere to diamonds, gold or sulfide minerals but not to gangue or other nonvaluable mineral. When combined with sheep's lanolin it was used by ancient cultures on hides to collect gold, tin and copper. Gold sticks to the oils on one's skin, so thre body becomes a detector. It is visible in black light. These facts are the source of the legend of King Midas whose touch turned everything to gold (The Pactolus where Midas bathed to rid himself of the golden touch is a placer gold river to this day) and Jason and Argonauts, who were Greek Miners who mined the Anatolian Coast with hide-lined sluice boxes about 5,000 years ago. Laymen have it that they used the wool as a screen for gold, (The Golden Fleece) but the wool itself would scrape clean in a few hours. It was the raw hide coated with grease that they used to collect a sheen of pure gold, separating it from the unsticky quartz and magnetite or black sand.
