They also wore the wigs on top of their hair using beeswax and resin to keep the wigs in place.

Eventually, other products using honey and beeswax, including edible spreads and furniture polish, were sold, before moving into the personal care line.

To-day such candles are difficult to procure; and it is perhaps simpler to use beeswax.

He finishes much of this work simply, using vegetable oil and beeswax, and has written admiringly of the patina of well used wooden items.

Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added.

The artifacts prepared from Dhokra technique of this art use the cow dung, paddy husk and red soil in the preparation, beeswax being the most important one.

The Egyptians perfected a technique using hot beeswax combined with colored pigment to bind color into stone in a process known as encaustic painting.

Sweets which are made of gelatin sometimes use beeswax as a covering.

Using beeswax, Honig re-casts kitsch plastic mantelpiece objects, filling in their hollow heads to melting them into sweet innocence.

Laib also uses beeswax to create wax houses, which are sealed chambers with small openings, and sculptures such as ziggurats and staircases.