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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (70260)4/5/2009 11:40:08 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
There's beeswax and beeswax. To me, yellow beeswax smells best.

You might find something you like here.
localharvest.org

I have a little cake of tan beeswax in my sewing box I've had for almost 40 years, used to wax thread. It's nice but not as nice as some others I've handled. Probably no antibiotics, though, as it long predates the need for them, I believe.

The nicest stuff makes excellent skin cream, melted and blended with apricot oil, avocado oil, grapeseed oil, and the like.

I do wish I could find unrefined avocado oil, like I used to buy. Greenish in hue.



To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (70260)4/9/2009 1:25:42 AM
From: ZinMaster  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
beeswax is an ester? I didn't know taht.
Did some work this weekend on esters. Acidic hydrolysis and rearrangement of ethyl esters on heated copper surfaces. Ahhhh the smell of an 80 year old pot still cooking up a batch of hooch.