[moon mountain mama]

We would love to make our own. We have lots of beeswax. Anyone have a recipe , how do you make different colors.
Thank You

 

[mum21andtwins]

not a recipe as such more of a guide as I work with a pan I allways use for beeswax and the lid of my lanolin

basicaly take your beeswax heat it up add lanolin maybe a tablespoon at a time? cool try it and add more lanolin or wax if needed.
For colours you can try powedered vegetable dyes. not sure where to get them in the states I get them from a ittle independant shop in Glastonbury Guess you could google it though.

Hth

 

[moon mountain mama]

Ok, I've done some research on coloring the wax and I don't know what to use. I don't want to break my wax crayons to do this, I can't really find any vegetable dye. The health food store by us carries natural food coloring I wonder if this would work. But, it may dye the kids hands too. Kind of stuck with this one.

 

[mum21andtwins]

if its a powder yes, if its a liquid, I don't know maybe if you mix it with the lanolin and then add it to the wax. but honestly I have never done this so I guess its a case of trial and error.

I'd love to know how it goes if you try

 

[moon mountain mama]

I was thinking maybe turmeric or hibiscus. Just things I have on hand. ?

 

[mum21andtwins]

turmeric would work not sure what colour hibiscus would give you?
Other things that might work dried beetroot slices ground to a powder, when we lived in londen the HFS had them.

 

[moon mountain mama]

Well I do have a dehydrator and a vita mix. I could dehydrate beets an then grind them up. I wonder if I would have to cook them first, probably not. What other things could I do this with? I can make my own vegetable dye powder.

 

[AngelBee]

Bump. Trying to figure out natural coloring for my wax I want to make.