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🕯️ From Cappings to Candles: A Beeswax Processing Guide

A practical walkthrough of rendering, filtering and decolorizing raw beeswax, plus wick sizing, mould preparation and safety considerations for making saleable beeswax candles.

Materials Science3DAdvanced60 FPS

A three-stage 3D wax line — melting pot, cloth filter and pour mould — showing how raw cappings become clear, saleable beeswax candles.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Heat lowers wax viscosity and speeds flow; repeated filtering strains out propolis and pollen debris; and decolorizing lightens the finished wax from dark amber-brown toward pale gold before it is poured around a sized wick.

🎮 How to Use

Raise the melt temperature to see the flame and convection respond, add filter passes to clean up the falling stream, dial in decolorizing, pick a wick gauge, and toggle the mould cutaway to check centring as each pour cycle fills and resets.

💡 Did You Know?

Properly rendered and filtered beeswax is essentially shelf-stable forever — stored blocks can be remelted and poured into candles years later with no loss of quality.

⚙ Under the hood

A practical walkthrough of rendering, filtering and decolorizing raw beeswax, plus wick sizing, mould preparation and safety considerations for making saleable beeswax candles.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install