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What wax is worth
All chapters
- Seven kilos of honey for one of wax
- Why drawn comb is never thrown away
- Cappings, the clean wax
- Old brood comb
- A kilo a year
- Never direct heat
- The double boiler
- The solar melter
- The steam melter
- Filtering and grades
- Rotating the brood comb
- What wax is worth
- Drawing comb costs stores
- What a kilo can become
Wax prices span a wide range because the same word covers very different products. Sold in bulk or wholesale, expect somewhere between four and twenty per kilogram, with the exact figure moving on grade, region, and the buyer you find.
Sold in small batches at cosmetic or candle-making grade, the same kilogram can bring twenty to forty, more than double the bulk floor, because a small buyer is paying for purity and convenience rather than volume. Wherever your wax sits in either band, cappings-grade material belongs at the top of it: it is the cleanest thing you produce, and buyers who know wax will pay for that even in a market otherwise driven by weight.