Beeswax Candles

Last year, for a project, the youngerchild and I collaborated on making a beeswax-based wood polish for one step in making a wooden box which would hold all of the other items in the project. Well, the rest of the beeswax/myrrh mixture has been sitting on the kitchen counter ever since, waiting to be made into something else. Basically, it was the same thing as lip balm (which is kind of weird, if you think about it) but it's also mostly beeswax and scent, so I thought I could make little candles instead.

I remelted the mixture and poured it into tealight molds. Voilá. Candles.

However, whatever else was in the mixture has definitely changed the melting point so they burn a little too fast. I think I should just use plain beeswax from now on. When I get more wax.

I wonder how my bees are doing?