How does Bayberry wax is produced?

If you want to know more about bayberry, you can call it wax myrtle, berry wax, or candle berry. There are bayberry plants all over the world. They thrive in sandy and marshy areas of the Northeast near the Atlantic Ocean and Great Lakes.

To make a single pound of bayberry wax, it takes about five pounds of bayberries to make. It takes a lot of work to pick the berries and then get the wax out of them. Wax is extracted from a plant after the wax has risen to the top of the plant.

Unlike organic white beeswax, bayberry wax is very hard, which makes it hard to hold a flame without being mixed with a softer wax. If you want to make a true bayberry candle, you always make it with pure beeswax mixed with pure bayberry wax. Because of these reasons, bayberry candles were only given as gifts or used on special occasions, like Christmas Eve.

Candles made with genuine bayberry wax are prized because of their high quality. They make a lot of light, very little smoke, and have a very pleasant smell. The real wax from bayberries has a very faint smell of herbs. In general, many people think the scent is gentle and reminds them of a crisp morning in the woods on a snowy day. It doesn't have enough scent to be called "fragrance."

In many cases, chandlers add fragrance to their candles (and make "bayberry scented candles," which are made of paraffin wax), but most bayberry candles are made of real wax in the same way they were made before.

The Legend of Bayberry

Burning bayberry candles has been done since the colonial era. It was found by early settlers on the Atlantic coast and the shores of Lake Erie. Bayberry is a shrub that grows in the sandbelt. The berry-like fruit has a greenish-white wax on it. Cooking fruit left a waxy coating on the water. This was found by early settlers. The wax smelled like herbs and was very good at burning. Many berries had to be boiled to get enough wax to make a candle. These candles lasted longer, were cleaner, and were brighter than the candles of the time, which were made of wood. For this reason, bayberry candles were kept and only used on special occasions, like Yule and the start of a new year.

Burning bayberry candles on New Year's Day has become a tradition over the years, which led to a saying that no one knows who came up with. The tradition still goes on today.

"It's a gift from a friend.

Burn it all the way down on Yuletide Eve.

A bayberry candle that is burned down to the socket

brings good luck to the home and money to the pocket."

The wax was thought to be good for you, and burning a bayberry candle meant that you were honoring someone, which could have led to better business deals.

Keep the tradition alive by burning a bayberry candle during the holidays, or even better, give one to a close friend as a gift to make sure they stay close, healthy, and wealthy.

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse