Yellow Beeswax

Beeswax (cera alba) is widely used in the production of food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.

It’s a natural wax produced by honey bees, which consists mainly of esters of fatty acids and various long-chain alcohols.

It ranges from yellow to almost black in color, depending on such factors as the age and diet of the bees, and it has a somewhat honeylike odor and a faint balsamic taste. It is soft to brittle, with a specific gravity of about 0.95 and a melting point of more than 60° C, and it consists mainly of free cerotic acid and myricin (myricyl palmitate), with some high-carbon paraffins. Although insoluble in water, it can be dissolved in such substances as carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, or warm ether.

Applications:

Cosmetic Grade: lip balm, lip gloss, hand creams, moisturizers, eye shadow, moustache wax, hair pomades…

Food Grade: food additive E901, glazing agent, ingredient of natural chewing gum …

Pharmaceuticals Grade: soft gelatin capsules and tablet coatings

Other: making candles, shoe polish, furniture polish…

Forms:

Blocks, pellets