How to clean wax: effective methods
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How to Clean beeswax at home
How to clean wax from impurities at home.
Collected and refined wax is too dark in color and form The service?
There are many unnecessary additives?
Do not know, what to do and how to remedy the situation?
How to clean wax, you will learn the simple guidelines and detailed instructions.
On wax raw materials
Beekeeping is hard to imagine without wax foundation. For its production using natural wax.
Although the product of bees found its application in various fields:
- pharmaceuticals;
- cosmetology;
- food industry, etc..
As wax materials are generally old cell or notch, and zabrus, propolis, striped insect deposits.
Pure product can be obtained with the new WTO, but they usually leave for insects.
The old cells and other raw wax, used for processing, contains a large number of different additives and pigments.
In regard to many beekeepers question arises, how to get the pure product.
The answer you will find more.
What should be a quality wax?
Quality product has the following characteristics:
- color. Pure beeswax is white, But suppose the yellow tint;
- smell. White product has no odor, for yellow is usually characteristic aroma of honey or propolis;
- rough. In workout in the hands of the wax becomes soft and pliable, but it leaves no greasy trace;
- taste. When chewing a natural product will not stick to the teeth, fake behaves differently;
- appearance and structure. Outside there is a smooth and slightly concave surface, split mat with visible cut.
Because of its high price in the market of common wax additives. To distinguish this product can, following the simple advice:
If natural materials mixed with paraffin, at fault will be visible white flakes.
When excessive content of wax additives will slide while cutting.
Foreign odors also indicate the presence of impurities.
Greasy stains or matt surface stand proof, added that the raw wax, resins and other additives.
Adding stearin wax becomes brittle. It is impossible to knead in hand.
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To distinguish a fake, good enough to inspect the exterior, product and try to taste.
Methods for cleaning
Cleaning wax can be made in different ways. Can be used as physical, and chemical methods.
For a quality product often combine different methods.
Methods for dry and wet processing
The collected raw material is subjected before peretoplyuvanni, before starting to clean.
From the correct action at this stage also depends on the purity and quality of the finished product.
To handle can be used dry or wet method.
In the dry method, furnace raw materials produced without the addition of water.
With this method, no waste, but it is only suitable for pure, without additives raw materials, which is quite rare.
In this regard, beekeepers often use the wet method. Treatment consists of several stages.
Before furnace raw material should be soaked in water. drought (old and cropped cells) propolis and place in a large container and cover with water.
Soaked raw day, and better days. Top container cover or cloth, to avoid insects flew.
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Several times a day stir the contents dishes. If the water was dark, replace it with clean.
Then follow these steps::
- Soaked raw material put in the bag.
- In a large saucepan heat the hot water to.
- Place the bag in a pot.
- Melted wax will float upward.
- You just collect it in a separate container.
Melt the raw material can be and with wax furnaces. In this case, melted wax should come out in a basin of cold water, where he would immediately freeze.
Melted product should evaporate before cleaning, as wax components react with water and steam.
For this purpose it is placed in a bowl and sent to the fire. Should evaporate at 80-90 degrees for several hours.
Avoid boiling wax, because it can ignite and vypleskatsya.
When using the wet processing method observe a few rules:
- Use soft water. Well suited rainwater.
- The water temperature in the soaking should be 30-40 C.
- Processing of raw materials with different amounts of impurities should be held separately.
- Sort obligatory.
- For furnaces and evaporation take no okyslyuyuyuchyy dishes.
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When using the dry method should avoid contact with raw steam.
The natural wax purification from impurities
One of the most effective and easiest way to clean is to use sunlight.
For this raw material is placed in a metal box, in which a plate is tilted.
Top design cover glass and placed in the sun.
Under ultraviolet light the wax melts and flows down to the lower plate (bottom design).
Impurities usually remain on the top plate.
This method provides a high quality product, because sunlight bleach it further, but the top plate can be to 40% raw materials. You may need additional treatment.
Purification of the use of reagents
Get rid of the impurities allows the use of various reagents. Most often used for this purpose acid.
Best suited sulfuric acid, but you can replace the salt, oxalic, acetic or other.
Read more: How to heat the wax without wax furnaces.
It should do the following::
- In a wooden container pour 40 liters of hot water.
- Add the melted wax into it (10-12 kg).
- Pour acid in small portions and mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon. You will need to 30 ml acid.
- Capacity wrap and leave for several hours.
- After cooling, remove the purified product.
pay attention, so that the wax is not suitable for manufacturing wax, as bees smell the chemistry (acid).
Cleanups and can be activated carbon. It can replace other adsorbents.
To do this,:
- Crushed adsorbent mixed with melted wax. Cleaners need 4-10% of the total weight of bee products.
- Leave on time.
- Filter product purified to remove large particles.
The cleaning process is due to the fact, reagents that react with impurities, thereby destroying them.
Traditional methods
At home, clean wax by using physical methods.
Available allow debris to remove large particles and impurities, but to get rid of whitening pigments necessary.
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Filtering
To remove large particles, wax melted mass must pass through a filter.
It can be done with small nylon fabric or metal mesh.
Natural cloth or gauze will not work.
It is advisable to use multiple filters with different factions to maximize cleaning.
Passed through the filter wax poured on capacity and allowed to cool.
creaming
Get rid of a large amount of impurities and the method helps defend.
To do this, follow these steps:
- In the container, pour hot water. The best dishes to choose, which extends up, example, bucket.
- Add to the water melted wax.
- Capacity wrap a blanket or other materials, who do not let the heat. Ensure slow cooling.
- Leave for a few days. Do not move or carry the container. During slow cooling impurities will freeze at the lower layer of wax.
- Remove the cooled bee product. Gently remove the knife from the bottom of impurities.
For white product, it is purified using potassium permanganate, chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, alkaline environment or potassium hydroxide.
Get quality beeswax can, using simple and available methods.
To achieve maximum effect, Combine physical cleaning with chemical methods.
