Beeswax is a tough wax secreted by worker bees for building honey comb cells. It is formed from a mixture of several compounds including mainly monoesters, diesters, hydrocarbons, hydroxy polyesters and free acides.

Beeswax is widely used commercially to make fine candles, cosmetics, in polishing materials (particularly shoe polish), as a component of modelling waxes, and in a variety of other products.

1/1 of the pages at present