There are two kinds of beeswax, yellow beeswax and white beeswax, due to different purification degrees. Among them, yellow beeswax is pale yellow, yellow or dark brown because it contains impurities such as pollen and propolis, and it has a fragrance similar to honey and pollen, but its taste is slightly different because of different impurities, while white beeswax is white or ultra-pale yellow, with a light or even tasteless smell. The idiom "taste is like chewing wax" is the most perfect explanation.

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The collection of beeswax is mostly completed in spring and autumn.

By strengthening the management of bee colony, beekeepers can promote bees to secrete more wax and build more spleens, and then collect old nest spleens, excess spleens, wax covers, stylobate and honey covers cut off during honey shaking. However, after artificial extraction, honey-removed honeycombs are generally put into a water basin to be heated and melted, and impurities such as upper cocoon layer, bee shell and foam are removed, filtered while it is hot, and cooled.

Yellow wax is boiled and decolored, and then becomes white wax? .

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