By: Dawn A Sodt

Dawn A Sodt — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 01:46:55 +0000

I started using wax wraps that I made similar to yours several years ago and I, too, use them on my ferments. Then, I looked at some of the commercial ones that claimed to just use the warmth of your hands to mold the wrap to a bowl and I checked their ingredients. There is a recipe for a beeswax, pine resin, and oil mixture to paint on your wraps that gives just a bit of stickiness from the resin, pliability from the oil, and the impermeability from the wax that is just a lovely step above plain wax. It even combines that lovely beeswax smell with the other wonderful pine resin smell! Collecting pine resin from trees and cleaning it through a process one man, Dominic Bender, termed ‘resinating’ would be another fun learning experience to have with your children. The recipe I sort of follow is found on this site: https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/the-complete-guide-to-diy-beeswax-wraps-including-a-beeless-vegan-food-wrap and the resinating process is on this site: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-resinate-clean-tree-resin/

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