What’s All The Buzz About Ear Candles?

February 15, 2012 | Author: Simone Kaminaris | Posted in Alternative Medicine

So how precisely how are ear candles made? We here so much about them, the pro’s and cons etc and races varying viewpoints naturally but how are they made? The bulk of ear candles are and may be made with pure beeswax. Beeswax is naturally utilised by all of the big major beauty products that we now purchase and is a commodity in itself, maybe nearly as sort after as gold or silver in some respects.

Part of the reason that beeswax is so sort after comes down to quality but lets take a moment to consider the poor old bees! What exactly is beeswax and how do we end up with such a pure pretty smelling block of beeswax? If you have smelt the beautiful scent of a block of beeswax it is fairly fantastic if tasty so much so you want to eat it! It’s intriguing! It took an inordinate amount of effort to become it’s end product thanks to the work ethic of the bee colony.

Beeswax is to all intents and purposes a side-effect of the beehive itself. The bees that have worked so rigorously are only 12-18 days old and they secret beeswax from wax glands which are six to nine segments under the stomach. The bees use beeswax to make a new brush capping off their ripened honey. Humans naturally now use beeswax in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, candles, polish and general waterproofing. Humans will also use the beeswax to form an initial foundation layer for beehives themselves to help with the production of honey.

The composition of beeswax is complicated, but contains hydrocarbons, straight chain monohydric alcohols, acids, hydroxy acids, oils and other substances. Its density is less than one, so it floats on water. It liquifies at 63 C to sixty five C and hardens at 60 C to 63 C, dependent on pureness. Bees collect nectar, pollen and water every day to take back to the hive so that generations to come can live. The raw nectar comes from flowers. They mix this with secretions from their glands, thus transforming it and after it is put in the brush, it ripens into honey.

It is often thought that for each 60 kilograms of honey approximately 1kg of beeswax is produced so you can see why it’s a rare commodity. Lately there was a plague of illness inside bee colonies worldwide and the amount of nations now in a position to produce the best honey and beeswax is lessening fast. You can quite simply see the way the result on the environment is affecting nature so fast – the bees are trying hard to find high quality nectar and pollen from our forest areas. This is the reason why states like Australia and New Zealand are still in a position to produce some of the best honey and beeswax available.

So for ear Candle makers the supply and quality of beeswax is supreme and not regarded lightly. Quality ear candles are made form the very best quality beeswax and this is set by where the beeswax is sourced and from which country. So the next time you use your ear candles spare a moment for the way the candles were made, their ingredients and particularly the additional standard lengths the bees went to to gather the nectar! We have got a lot to thank them for, they’re almost a protected species!

Ear Candling has have changed and modern Ear Candles respect the need for safety. These Ear Candles are a good example.

Author: Simone Kaminaris

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