Try it Out Tuesday - Estelle makes beeswax foodwraps

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    Stainless Steel bowl and spoon at the ready with my beeswax and jojoba oil
    1/16 Stainless Steel bowl and spoon at the ready with my beeswax and jojoba oil
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    Washed and dried fabric yesterday, ironing and cutting it into wrap shapes
    2/16 Washed and dried fabric yesterday, ironing and cutting it into wrap shapes
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    Bit of fraying! Would be great to have those zigzaggy scissors here me thinks
    3/16 Bit of fraying! Would be great to have those zigzaggy scissors here me thinks
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    Cloth laid out on baking paper Pastry brush at the ready to brush on wax
    4/16 Cloth laid out on baking paper Pastry brush at the ready to brush on wax
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    Gibby opening up the stored wax for me from that Try it out Tues when I rendered honeycomb
    5/16 Gibby opening up the stored wax for me from that Try it out Tues when I rendered honeycomb
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    Looks good, smells even better
    6/16 Looks good, smells even better
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    Double boiler (bowl over boiled water) adding couple of teaspoons of jojoba oil to beeswax. This apparently helps keep the wraps pliable
    8/16 Double boiler (bowl over boiled water) adding couple of teaspoons of jojoba oil to beeswax. This apparently helps keep the wraps pliable
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    Brushing on the wax, it starts to dry really quickly.
    9/16 Brushing on the wax, it starts to dry really quickly.
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    Second sheet while the first one is in the oven - to keep wax melted and get it right through the cloth
    10/16 Second sheet while the first one is in the oven - to keep wax melted and get it right through the cloth
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    Baking - well keeping the wax melted actually, so you can take the sheets out and spread more evenly.
    11/16 Baking - well keeping the wax melted actually, so you can take the sheets out and spread more evenly.
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    Flipped this one over as I may have added a little too much wax, need to melt through more
    12/16 Flipped this one over as I may have added a little too much wax, need to melt through more
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    Hanging out to dry out
    13/16 Hanging out to dry out
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    Prettiful
    14/16 Prettiful
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    Really surprised how many wraps I was able to make. Got a better handle on how to apply wax quickly and not quite as thick to get it through cloth.
    15/16 Really surprised how many wraps I was able to make. Got a better handle on how to apply wax quickly and not quite as thick to get it through cloth.
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    Dry my beauties, dry.
    16/16 Dry my beauties, dry.

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I'm so proud of myself that these actually worked out. I'd done a lot of reading and research on how to make beeswax wraps and some of the techniques seemed tricky, long winded, and involved pine rosin/resin - conflicting reviews on whether to use that stuff or not but once I read the bit that said 'incredibly hard to get off if you splash it on something you don't want it on' - yea naaaah for me.

So I've stuck with the beeswax and jojoba ingredients to melt down and cover clean cotton material with.

Apparently the jojoba oil just helps add some softness and flexibility to the cloth. It is pricey but you don't need too much. 

It's a full circle of life here from my mate Gary doing his beekeeper thing and making honey (featured on One News today! See HERE)

To me taking the bee byproduct/waste of honeycomb rendering it down (see that process via a past TIOT Here)

To now gathering all the other bits and bobs to make my own beeswax wraps to replace gladwrap and plastic waste, love it!!

It's messy crafting at it's best.

Definitely cover everything in baking paper and use utensils you can keep for solely this purpose.