The Beeswax Workshop: How to Make Your Own Natural Candles, Cosmetics, Cleaners, Soaps, Healing Balms and More Paperback – February 28, 2021

I can honestly say I've never been more excited about beeswax after reading this book.Chris Dalziel puts together information and recipes and gives us a detailed guide on making beauty, cleaning, health and decorative supplies using beeswax: the gift that keeps on giving, even though we've (collectively) taken advantage of the precious resource. Dalziel has a section where he talks about how to help the honeybee population and I immediately sent a message to my Facebook friends asking if they have any nectar-producing plants in their gardens.Along with ways we can do our part, Dalziel gives us NUMEROUS ways to use beeswax. From waterproof matches to food wraps to baseball glove conditioner, beeswax products can be used in every part of daily life. How you decide to come upon your beeswax is solely dependent on how labor intense you are, but Dalziel writes all the recipes in the book with clear and concise language that is easy to follow. Although there may be a learning curve for making some products (shampoo bars and such) there are enough of the more simple recipes to keep your interest until you master the more complicated of the amazing beeswax products at your disposal.

This book has everything you could ever hope or want to build with beeswax. I recently got into beeswax in order to make my own soaps, but I've learned you can do much more with them. This book has nine different chapter on different uses, and each category has about 20 different items to make. The staples, such as candles, soaps, and lip balms, but there is so much more. Some of the variety includes furniture polish, hot glue, waterproofing, shoe polish, crayons, and so much more. Admittedly I haven't made close to all of these, so I can't say much for their effectiveness, but the things I have made have turned out great! The instructions were easy to follow, and the book even includes shelf life time.

I love this book. Do you know how much money you could save by making your own products with beeswax? Not only that, but you will know every ingredient in the product. Beeswax is just not for candlemaking. I never realized how many products I had under my kitchen and bathroom sink, in the medicine cabinets and bathroom drawers for cleaning and personal care. Almost anything needed for cleaning or personal care is in this book. Ingredients needed are clearing listed and easily obtained. Many different oils are needed for recipes for soap, personal care, and home comforts. My favorite part of this book is the ingredient guide. Self life is given for each of the products used. Substitutions are also given if a product can not be found. Now I can streamline cleaning products and pay pennies on the dollar.

I love this book, there is a huge variety of recipes. Makeup, salve, cleaners and much more. My only disappointment was that there are no pictures. The book is very good for the price you pay for it.

I’m excited to get started making things for myself and my daughters with the recipes in this book. Some look very simple for a beginner. Some, like perfume, look a bit more complicated but if you want to give it a try it’s in this book. It has everything. I’m going to start with a body butter since I love that stuff and it’s no more expensive than buying it but I will know what’s in it. The book gives an ingredient list and what equipment you need and step by step instructions.I plan to make some and update my review as to how it all turns out

This book is AMAAAAAZING! I absolutely adore it. Seriously. It does a great job of walking you through step by step on how to make beautiful things. Are you into home made gifts made with beeswax? Then you will love this book! I am not going to lie, the fact that the book talks about hanukkah and havdalah candles, pulls at this nice jewish girls heart strings. Growing up and hearing and seeing very little about things to do for jewish holidays is hard but seeing this in this book made me SO happy. There is this one candle store in tzvat in israel that makes amazing candles, one of the reasons I got into beeswax so getting to make my own hanukkah candles this year was amazing. I also made some havdalah candles for my brother who is religious, he loved them. This book made it so easy to make real, beautiful and usable candles. I just completed making some hand balm, I modified it with some essential oils and couldn't be happier with the results. I am not sure what my next project from the book is going to be but I can't wait. I'm so grateful the author provides such detail abot instructions, process and how to use it. As a very literal person, I appreciate the step by step. Highly recommend this book for anyone looking to get into some beeswax crafts. This book is made for every level!

I wish I had bought this book first. It includes more recipes and ideas than any other alchemy book I’ve ever used.

Great book with LOTS of recipes. I have tried many of them and have had problems with only the grafting wax .... it DID NOT come out like a putty, it was much too soft, even after adding add'l beeswax. But the book covers so many practical and handy uses for beeswax and I am loving my cutting board conditioner, food wraps, gardener's salve and many more. It's my 'go-to' resource for all things Bees Wax. Thank you Christine!!