Petra Ahnert is the creative force behind Beehive Alchemy (beehivealchemy.com), a growing artisan soap, body care, and home goods business. After a serendipitous meeting with a beekeeper at the library in 2002, Petra soon had a couple hives of her own and extra honey to sell. Of course, with the honey, comes beeswax, too so she sought out ways to make good use of the wax she had on hand. Since that time, Petra has first looked to her own life and products she uses to replace them with items she could make herself with the honey and beeswax she had on hand. Eventually, those products made their way into the product line-up for Beehive Alchemy.
"...a fabulous book with instructions and excellent photos on
virtually any product one might wish to make from beeswax. It is so
well written I never lost interest and was not tempted to skip
around or to hurry to the end. The photos in the book are
outstanding and make it even more professional and informative." -
Suzanne Finley, Saponifier Magazine
"Beeswax is a wonderful, malleable and beneficial product that has
a wide array of possible uses. This attractive book has a lot to
offer for the intermediate do-it-yourselfer. In her debut book,
businesswoman Ahnert provides an excellent introduction and solid
technique instruction to make candles, lotions, and soaps with
beeswax. VERDICT The true strength of this book is its instructions
for making homemade body products. While similar in coverage to
Leeann Coleman and Jayne Barnes's Honey Crafting, Ahnert's book
provides better body products and more detailed technical
instruction. Strongly recommended." - Library Journal
"This book basically lets you become your own Burts Bees, but
better, with clear instructions on how to make candles, soaps,
salves and creams out of beeswax and much, much more! Beeswax
candles help clean the air, beeswax salves have anti-bacterial,
anti-microbial and anti-viral benefits. For people who have allergy
problems, beeswax is a "go to" product. Once I started looking into
the benefits of beeswax products, it made me realize all the
man-made chemicals in those same products bought at a store." -
Jeannie Boutelle (The Local Beet blog)
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