I have some beeswax and I'd like to make beeswax crayons. How would I color them? Anybody have a recipe?

Thanks!

I would love to know to.but I also just won these,and love them,and I know she makes them
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3168341503&category=11735

I found a recipe :)
http://www.recipegoldmine.com/childpaint/childpaint29.htm

not sure if this is right, but I also found some powdered coloring
http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/coloring/powdered.htm

Bernice tried the first recipe and didn't work. The food paste rubs off on your hands. You need to use a special fixative to make it work and something different for color. I can't remember what bernice figured out on that one.

I'll have to search my files, but I had a recipe that was beeswax, kaolin clay ( I think ) and coloring. I've never tried it, though.

I searched and also found some called for talc. Now isn't talc what made commercial crayons suspicious of containing asbestos?

Katie

I used kaolin and still wasn't happy with it. One day I am going to drag all that stuff out and try again.

Thanks for the replies, I might just have to experiment...

The talc recipe, and the soap and beeswax ones. Neither worked. :(

I have a TON of beeswax i'd love to use to make the kiddo's crayons too, but, I cannot find a good recipe either!

:(

Perhaps you could use the Blocked wax candle colors or some candle coloration?

Originally posted by qtkitty
Perhaps you could use the Blocked wax candle colors or some candle coloration?

Those won't transfer the color to the paper.

I've tried tempra for color and cornstarch as a fixative and they were still like coloring with a candle. :p

I've also tried ground up watercolor paints.

Liquid pigments don't work because you can't get them to mix with the wax.

Hum, what are some other mishaps I had? lol. They'll come to me.

katie

Here, I stumbled on this commercial recipe site some time ago. Most of the recipes are for the basf co. pigments and I just wasn't in the mood to figure out HOW un-natural they are. Plus it was starting to look alot like chemistry. :p


http://www.basf.com/businesses/coatcolor/specialty/pdfs/manufacture_of_3116e.pdf

Additionallly, in the preliminary research I did on powdered pigments, some can be volatile....more chemistry. :rolleyes:

eta; not explosive volatile but nasty metal content.

Katie

Maybe you could use soap coloration .. or there is food coloring powder out maye that would work?