Beeswax lip balm has been around for a loooooong time. That’s because beeswax is among the most important of lip balm ingredients. Even some of the most popular brands such as ChapStick and Blistex still use beeswax as one of their lip balm ingredients in at least some of their products. Why is Beeswax Lip Balm the […]
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Beeswax candle making? There’s nothing to it! Beeswax makes the very best candles, and there’s a very easy way to make beeswax candles. And making candles from beeswax is a great project for kids. You can even buy kits that supply everything you need to make beautiful, handmade beeswax candles. What’s So Great About Beeswax Candles? Throughout
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Here is an interesting comment sent in from one of our followers. Bee Stings! by Katherine (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) All my life I have suffered from allergic reactions to bee stings and last summer I was stung on two separate occasions and I did not react! I was puzzled as to why and I do
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Adventures in Wine Making With Honey by Davey (Vancouver B.C. Canada) For the past few years I have been dabbling in Mead(Honey wine). When I started I knew very little of what I was doing. I purchased what I assumed was the cheapest honey around from Costco. To a novice wine maker, the sweet, alcoholic
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I’ll need package bees to stock my new hive. In my opinion, using packaged bees is the best way to start your first hive. If you haven’t already read my page on buying bees and installing them in your hive, you might want to look through it so you’ll have a good understanding of the
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Time for installing package bees in my new hive. If you’re beginning beekeeping, package bees are a great way to stock your first hive. And installing them is easy, as you’ll see. Be Prepared! If you’re beginning beekeeping and just starting your first hive, having everything that you’ll need on-hand and ready will make the
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How many different types of honey have you tried? Not ONLY Supermarket Honey, I Hope! If you’ve only experienced the bottled honey that is usually sold in supermarkets or offered in restaurants, then you’re missing out on the best products of the hive. If you’ve never eaten honey in the comb, for example, you’ve never
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But you’re already at least a little bit intrigued by honey bees, or you wouldn’t be here! We know a lot about bees, of course – after all, there have been thousands of books written about them. And the subject is one that has fascinated mankind throughout history (in fact, some of the early misconceptions about
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Honey recipes aren’t as plentiful as they once were. Cooking with honey used to be the standard method of sweetening a dish, and so recipes with honey were readily available for lots of different dishes. That’s because refined sugar was once an expensive rarity, something that only the well-to-do could afford on a regular basis.
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It’s time to build a beehive for my soon-to-arrive package bees. If you’ll soon be starting beekeeping, you can build your hive right along with me, step by step. You’ll see that building a honeybee hive from a beehive kit is really easy. If I can do it, anyone can! And I can do it. Here’s
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