Candles for lighting purposes were made of animal fats combined with beeswax.
Early in the present century the method generally adopted for polishing furniture was by rubbing with beeswax and turpentine or with linseed-oil.
First a beeswax model is made the exact size and shape of the finished metal pipe.
If oil-cloth be occasionally rubbed with a mixture of beeswax and turpentine, it will last longer.
Scrub with soap and water, rinse, dry, rub with beeswax, and wipe off with a clean cloth.
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The opening in the carapace was then filled with gauze to stop the bleeding and covered withbeeswax.
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Historically, the basic medium for wax modelling wasbeeswax.
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Beeswaxand cotton cloth remained the most important products for export.
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It also rejects the surface treatment of peaches and pineapples withbeeswax, as we want natural products to remain natural.
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The beekeepers' production of honey,beeswax, propolis and pollen is only the smaller part of their activity, is it not.
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There are food additives such as konjac, a humectant, andbeeswax, an anti-caking agent, which have been used in the preparation of food and drink for centuries.
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Her paintings are created of pigmentedbeeswax, in a complex process of layering and torching, with a variety of methods in paint application.
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Its earliest use was for idols, ornaments and jewellery, using naturalbeeswaxfor patterns, clay for the moulds and manually operated bellows for stoking furnaces.
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When mixed withbeeswax, it is used in bandages for ulcerated wounds.
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She embarked on a series of large gridded paintings that introducedbeeswax, seashells, blossoms, leaves and sand imbedded in an encaustic surface.
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He has used and experimented with encaustic painting withbeeswax, natural pigments and oil colors, on amate paper or wooden panels.
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There are alsobeeswaxcandles on stakes in the ground on three sides of the body.
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A dull polish is procured by rubbingbeeswaxinto the wood.
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The properties ofbeeswaxmake it an excellent medium for preparing figures and models, either by modeling or by casting in molds.
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In 1987 an estimated 797 tons of honey and 614 kilograms ofbeeswaxwere produced.
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