Ready to make your own encaustic wax? You’re going to need some beeswax as well as damar resin, which adds translucency and helps to harden your formula so you can properly blend in your pigments.

Simply put, beeswax is a wax that comes from bees. The worker bees produce a honeycomb of this wax to store the colony’s honey. Many beauty products that contain beeswax are EWG-certified. This means ...

During a particularly harsh bout of chapped lips that seemed to last an entire winter, I traded my stand-by medicated lip balm for a stick of Burt's Bees nourishing lip balm. It was the best decision ...

For a long time, deodorant was just another item I picked up at the store without thinking too much about the ingredients.

When bees eat honey, they make beeswax. Beeswax is safe to eat, will not spoil and is arguably one of the most versatile home improvement products nature provides. Here are a few ways to “fix it” with ...

This story is part of a TODAY series called "The Follow," where we investigate how one product is created from start to finish. We've gone inside the factories of LUSH, Peeps, Crayola and more. When ...

Beeswax is useful in a variety of applications, from health and beauty products to candles and home items. But what is beeswax exactly and how is it made? Beeswax is the miracle of the beehive. The ...

Beeswax candle-making is an ancient practice, started by Egyptian and Roman civilizations of millennia past. As with all great and simple arts, it has stood the test of time to be embraced by a new ...

A vegan diet is defined as a way of eating that avoids animal-derived products and ingredients to the best of one’s ability. Veganism typically extends beyond diet and also aims to avoid the use of ...