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

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Learn how to transform miraculous beeswax into candles, soaps, environmentally friendly household cleaners, amazing DIY crafts and much more.

Making all kinds of amazing, all-natural stuff out of beeswax is easy and fun. Packed with over 100 step-by-step recipes, The Beeswax Workshop shows you how to create beeswax alchemy - turning this simple, magical substance into candles, beautiful gifts, soaps, household cleaners, beauty supplies and so, so much more:

HOME
• Mason Jar Candle
• English Furniture Polish

HEALTH
• Bug-Be-Gone Insect Repellent
• Chamomile Sunburn Salve

BEAUTY
• Everyday Body Butter
• Rose Lip Gloss

GARDEN
• Waterproof Shade Hat
• Nontoxic Wood Sealant

Whether you use beeswax from your backyard hive or purchase a supply, this book offers tips, tricks and techniques for getting the most out of this miracle ingredient.

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Chris Dalziel is a teacher, author, gardener, and herbalist with 30+ years’ of growing herbs and formulating herbal remedies, skin care products, soaps, and candles. She teaches workshops and writes extensively about gardening, crafts, and medicinal herbs on her blog at JoybileeFarm.com. Beeswax is a central player in these interests.

Formerly the president of the Boundary Artisan Association and the Boundary Spinners and Weavers Guild, Chris led both organizations through 2 successful art gallery shows. She’s won awards for her textile designs and was featured in The Ashford Wheel Magazine in 2011.

Chris is a contributing writer to The Biblical Herbal Magazine, The FermenTools Blog, and the Attainable Sustainable blog. Her other books, The Beginners Book of Essential Oils and Homegrown Healing are available on Amazon.

Chris lives with her husband Robin in the mountains of British Columbia on a 140 acre ranch, with sheep, dairy goats, llamas, and a few retired chickens. They have three adult children and three granddaughters.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ulysses Press (February 28, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 161243648X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1612436487
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.71 x 8.5 inches

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Chris Dalziel is the founder of the popular websites, JoybileeFarm.com and theDIYHerbal.com. Chris empowers her readers to grow their own food and medicine and preserve it so that they can confidently provide for their families. She is a grandmother, teacher, author, gardener, herbalist, and homesteader.

She is the author of The Dehydrator Cookbook for Beginners (2022, Rockridge Press), The Beeswax Workshop (2017, Ulysses Press), and Homegrown Healing from Seed to Apothecary (2016, Joybilee Media) Chris believes in giving her readers a quick win, because each quick win builds confidence and empowers self-reliance. Chris and her husband live in the mountains of British Columbia with their three dogs and three cats.

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Charlotte Poling

Excellent resource. Loved the book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2022

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This book is an excellent resource book ..clear and easy to follow instructions

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Danie

It does a great job of walking you through step by step on ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2017

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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!

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Beeswax - more than just candles

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2017

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This book has recipes/instructions for literally everything you can make with beeswax! I was familiar with beeswax candles and soaps, but less familiar with perfumes—and then the recipes continued, going to beeswax for healthcare, saddle polishing, gun maintenance, violin rosin…Making your own crayons…I really never knew how much stuff you could make with beeswax. Of course not all of it is going to be useful for every person—I don’t own a saddle, for instance—but the recipes that are applicable to everyone, like shampoo or lotion, are great, and it’s very cool to see further possibilities.
The author also makes a good point about the environmental benefits of using beeswax. I was originally interested mostly because I like crafting, but I didn’t realize regular candles are derived from petroleum. It makes sense to use natural ingredients because we know they are safe.
The writing is also very clear and intelligent, and doesn’t condescend in the way some instructional books do. There’s a section at the beginning that talks about how beehives are organized, the different kinds of wax, the melting point of wax, and all the scientific information that’s good to understand while working with beeswax. It assumes you’re a beginner, so it catches you up to speed.

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You can use beeswax for everything!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2017

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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.

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Diana I. Nieves-Miranda

Excellent book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 14, 2022

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I love the wide range of products covered. Have already made a good salve and beeswax wraps following the book's recipes and instructions. I recommend this book wholeheartedly.

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Dovebar

Tons of great recipes

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 1, 2020

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This book has a great variety of recipes that have to do with beeswax. I bought it to use for beeswax cling wrap, but there are a ton of other recipes that I think I will use. My only critique is that the recipes span across multiple pages rather than trying to fit them on a single page to make it easier to follow.

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Ann

I love this book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 14, 2017

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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.

17 people found this helpful

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Zaabaa

Full of Great Things to Make!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2017

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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.

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Austin

... to make candles soaps shampoo bars etc clear and easily understood. Some additional pictures may be useful though ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 16, 2018

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This is a lovely book the recipes and description of hoe to make candles soaps shampoo bars etc clear and easily understood. Some additional pictures may be useful though as first time maker of soap and salves these came out perfect.

Daniel

Maximise the use of your hard working bees

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 15, 2020

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Loads of great ideas in here for a beekeeper looking to make the most from Thier hard working bees.

Trish

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 27, 2018

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Very informative book with no colour pictures but you couldn't ask for more. I love the ideas and information it provides.