Bees Wax

Beeswax is a substance produced by worker bees to make honeycomb “six-sided cells filled with honey” for storing honey. It consists mostly of over 284 different compounds, a variety of acids, alkanes, esters, polyesters, etc. Secreted from the eight wax glands which are under the bee’s abdomen, this wax contains organic ingredients like palmitoleate, oleate, hydroxy palmitate, palmitate, etc. which come as a result of the bee’s various and natural means of nectar collection i.e. from several plant wax and pollen collected.

The harvested beeswax is melted and strained or filtered to remove impurities such as bee parts, honey, and other impurities. It’s mostly yellowish or goodish in color depending on the type of plant or flower nectar was collected from. Original organic beeswax is a little brittle and hard when directly applied on your skin. However, it can be mixed with other things or refined to make a variety of stuff from skincare products to lip balm.

Benefits of Beeswax for Skin

Each benefit that beeswax has for skin comes as a result of some of its properties and natural ingredients.

Here are the advantages of Beeswax on skin:

Vitamin A

Beeswax is rich in vitamins including vitamin A, which helps in exfoliation, improves skin hydration and reconstruction/regeneration of skin cells living your skin rejuvenated and well taken care of.

Humectant

The humectant is the ability to attract, preserve or retain water/moisture. Beeswax has ingredients that help attract water molecules to your skin, hence keeping your skin hydrated, moisturized and healthy over time.

Antibacterial

It has mild antibacterial properties, which inhibit the growth of fungus and bacteria, also preventing some bacterial and fungal infection. It benefits the skin a lot by helping it fight contamination and in cleaning the skin, leaving it healthy and natural. In most products that help a lot with bacterial situations, e.g., a combination of beeswax with olive oil and honey.

Anti- inflammatory and Pain reliever

Beeswax has anti-inflammatory properties that assist in preventing damage and irritation to the skin; the features also help restore the skin to its normal condition leaving your skin in a better state and relieve you of pain which comes from swelling and skin irritation.

Protecting the Skin

It forms a film of protective barriers on the skin surface, which keeps out toxins, protects the skin from irritation and other environmental attacks but still allows the human skin to breathe. The same cannot be said for petroleum jelly which clog pores hence suffocating the skin, a reason why it’s great as a lip balm ingredient.

Skin healer

It has the potential of healing sores caused during chemotherapy and also can be mixed with olive oil, and honey to treat special conditions like hemorrhoids and also reduces bleeding, pain, and itching caused by hemorrhoids.  Other ailments the mixture can be used to treat are eczema, dermatitis, and psoriasis thus making it a hypoallergenic.

Soothes itching

Because it’s an anti-allergenic, it can benefit people with reactive or sensitive skin; this is by soothing itching dry skin and reducing the skins sensitiveness.

Uses of Beeswax for Skin

Due to the significant benefits of beeswax, there are several ways beeswax can be utilized.

Use as a Skin Softener and Moisturizer

Skin care products with beeswax provide a lot of advantages to dry rough skin; products like lotions, creams or soaps that contain beeswax act as a humectant and emollient sealing the human skin thus hydrating and softening the dry cells.

Used in production of baby care products

It can assist in healing babies with diaper rash by providing protection of the baby’s skin and also employing some of its healing properties on the baby’s skin.

To reduce stretch marks

Beeswax mixed with apricot, kernel oil, vitamin E oil and cocoa butter make a supernormal remedy that prevents and reduces stretch marks.

Used to Clear Acne

With a great healing, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties, beeswax remedies are effective in treating acne. The advantage is brought on by the presence of vitamin A, which helps a lot in treating and preventing acne.

Natural Neosporin Alternative

Because of its healing properties, beeswax can be used to treat poison ivy, bruises, stings, and other mild injuries on your skin.

• Can be utilized as pain, inflammation and itch relief
• Can be used to soften calluses on your feet. Soothe, repair cracked heels and hands.
• Because of its moisturizing and skin protective qualities, if produced well, beeswax can be used as a lip balm, for moisturizing, protecting and healing your dry, cracked lips keeping them healthy and looking good.
• Beeswax can also be used reduce ringworms and jock itch

Other benefits

• Beeswax is also used to treat various skin problems such as psoriais, dermatitis and eczema.
• To relieve hemorrhoids symptoms such as bleeding, itching and edema.