Organic white beeswax, granules

Yellow, non-bleached beeswax.

Unlike white beeswax, your balm or cream will inevitably be tinted yellow, leaving you less scope for colouring your product.

It melts between 61° and 66°.

Whatever you use it for, it doesn't just thicken, it also has anti-inflammatory and healing properties.

Beeswax: a versatile ingredient for your balms and creams

Beeswax is a key ingredient in the manufacture of balms and sticks, offering numerous skin care benefits.

Balms:

Used in balms, beeswax allows essential oils to act primarily on the skin. For optimum effectiveness, it can represent up to 10% of the total weight of the preparation.

Creams:

Incorporated into a classic cream with an emulsifier, beeswax plays a different role. Here, it is added to the oil phase, representing a maximum of 3% of the total weight. It thickens the cream, stabilises the emulsion and has a 'film-forming' effect, creating a continuous protective film on the skin.

• 60 ml of a vegetable oil of your choice
• 15 g yellow or white beeswax

Heat the two ingredients in a bain-marie (in a container held over a pan of boiling water). Bear in mind the melting point of beeswax: between 61° and 66°.

Mix well, remove from the heat source and add the essential oils according to the desired dosage.

Unless you keep it in a cool place and in well-sterilised jars, you can stabilise this preparation with antioxidant vitamin E (tocopherol): no more than 0.2% of the total volume of your mixture.

This base is useful when you want to use EO for a very specific purpose, such as athlete's foot, when it's worth dosing up to 20% tea tree, or for treating skin parasites.