Beeswax

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Beeswax, although less known than honey, is one of the hive products richest in benefits: the properties of beeswax are so numerous that this precious substance is still used today in various sectors.

Used in nature by bees for the construction of honeycombs (i.e. the small cells where the bees keep honey, pollen and eggs), beeswax is created by the chemical transformation of nectar. In particular, beeswax is produced by eight ventral glands of worker bees, but only on condition that the hive reaches a temperature between 33°C and 36°C. In particular, 8/10 grams of honey are needed to produce a gram of wax.

The raw beeswax is then purified and bleached to give rise to white wax, or cera alba, widely used in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical fields. In fact, it has marked emollient and anti-dehydrating properties: the lipids present in beeswax make it useful in the formulation of products for very dry and chapped skin, since they allow water loss to be retained from the skin and to protect it. In fact, wax has a chemical structure that is particularly similar to that of the skin, and it also has the ability to form a protective film that resists even a few washings with detergents and detergents. A true protective agent, ideal, for example, for the hands, a part of our body frequently exposed to aggressive agents.

Thanks to the presence of vitamin A, beeswax helps cell regeneration.

Furthermore, beeswax is a great stimulus for wound healing and is the perfect ally to improve skin complications such as itching, dermatitis, eczema. Beeswax is also used in the food industry: as a film

to wrap the cheese for ripening or as a food additive to give it a shine.

In addition, in pharmaceutical and cosmetic preparations, it frequently plays the role of thickener or emulsifier in the formulation.

Ethical chain

Our organic beeswax is a 0 km product, which comes from a farm in our province, in a valley entirely cultivated according to the organic farming method. It was born in 1990 from Paolo and Aurora's dream of living in a time marked by the rhythm of the seasons in total respect for nature.
Our beeswax has great love and history behind it. In fact, bees are Paolo's great love who wanted to pass on a family tradition. It all started when his uncle gave him 2 beehives at the age of 15, now he has 200.