Making bees wax crayons...a failed attempt any ideas

[Kristin0105]

My dd and I tried to make bees wax crayons yesterday and failed. I am wondering if anyone has done this and been successful. We melted beeswax and added the gel food coloring. That did not work so we tried a different type of concentrated food coloring that colored some of the wax but the wax is so hard it does not color. Thoughts, ideas, inspiration appreciated.

[blessedmum]

I have not made any yet, but I know you are supposed to add a small amt. of starch and another liquid oil.  Maybe i'll try it later this week.  Any one have ideas on what to use for molds?

[sapphire_chan]

You can often get seasonal ice cube trays, how about using those? Ooo, hang on, this is the Waldorf forum, so yes, definitely get something seasonal.  For instance.

[Kristin0105]

Oil?? starch? I forgot the oil, what kind of starch?

I'll try again. I just used an ice cube tray I had just to see if it would work. You can buy metal candy molds in different shapes.

[dogretro]

http://www.esoulshine.com/recipes.htm  Scroll down for the crayon recipe.  I disagree w/ the author's recommendation to use food coloring & would stick w/ pigment.

[blessedmum]

Originally Posted by dogretro 

http://www.esoulshine.com/recipes.htm  Scroll down for the crayon recipe.  I disagree w/ the author's recommendation to use food coloring & would stick w/ pigment.

That is the recipe that I have.  I was going to replace the talc with arrowroot or corn starch and use cake paste dyes.  If you can find a non toxic pigment I suppose that would be better.  Thanks for the candy tin idea.  Oooh now I get to go to the cake store!