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[L. Wakefield]

   I was kinda tired when I read this the other night- I have a recipe from the state bee inspector that his Polish grandma gave him. It is for beeswax, mineral oil, borax, and distilled water. (Let me know if you want the proportions.)You melt the beeswax together with the mineral oil (like your olive oil and beeswax)- and the borax goes in the water. Each is heated to 162*f I think it is. Then when you mix them together the borax emulsifies the stuff into rich thick creamy stuff that is pourable at that moment but thickens rapidly as it cools.

   As written, it just has the faint lovely smell of beeswax.

   I have re-done it with various vegetable oils and flower or herbal waters- rosewater, peppermint hydrosol, others- and sometimes I mix essential oils in it.

   With the holidays coming up I should make more.

   The other thing your recipe reminded me of was the comfrey salve they used to make in WV, and sometimes I use a variation on that to do lip balm (more beeswax) or a perfume/salve.   lw

[Paul_H]

Me and the kids made a salve with St Johns Wort a few years back.They picked a couple of buckets of the flowers and we crushed them down in a quart jar.Poured Olive oil on until it covered the flowers.

Put the jar out in a sunny spot and let it sit a month or so.Poured it all through a sieve with cheese cloth a couple of times.It was a clear Red colour.Later they heated it up on the stove and added a bit of beeswax at a time until it was a soft paste.(ugly pink)

It is good for cuts,etc.

[Stan]

Just heat up your boots and rub some snowpruff into 'em. It's just full of bee's wax, and your boots will thank you too.  8)

[woodmills1]

Comfrey now there is something I haven't thought about for a long time.  It grew wild in W Va. and the locals called it knit bone.  I think it saved my life.  I had a huge wad of wood imbedded in my hand and the doctors wouln't believe it was there cause it didn't show on an x-ray.  They stitched up the wound and sent me home.  I cut out 2 stitches and started soaking my hand 3 times a day in comfrey boiled in water from a sulfur tainted well.  The stuff that oozed outa there MAN!  Found another doctor who did a little incision and out popped this hunk a wood about the size of an acorn.  I swear the comfrey saved  at least my hand if not more.

[Kevin]

I bought some bag bomb, I hate to tell you but it's boot grease.
I have a can downstairs, they call it dubbin.
She won't let me use it in the house, it's too greasy  : .