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  2. Beeswax - Wikipedia

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    Beeswax is an ingredient in surgical bone wax, which is used during surgery to control bleeding from bone surfaces; shoe polish and furniture polish can both use beeswax as a component, dissolved in turpentine or sometimes blended with linseed oil or tung oil; modeling waxes can also use beeswax as a component; pure beeswax can also be used as ...

  3. History of candle making - Wikipedia

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    Candle moulding machine in Indonesia circa 1920. Candle making was developed independently in a number of countries around the world. [1]Candles were primarily made from tallow and beeswax in Europe from the Roman period until the modern era, when spermaceti (from sperm whales) was used in the 18th and 19th centuries, [2] and purified animal fats and paraffin wax since the 19th century. [1]

  4. Knorr Beeswax Candles - Wikipedia

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    Knorr Beeswax Candles is a beeswax candle maker dating to the 1900s and Ferdinand Knorr who opened the business in 1928. His son Henry took over in 1957 and grandson Steven took over in 1982. [ 1 ] The candles are sold in 33 colors.

  5. Altar candle - Wikipedia

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    Altar candles are tall, thin candles made of beeswax and stearine. They are topped with a brass or glass candle follower, which helps keep wax from spilling on the altar linens. Altar candles are lit using a taper, which is a lit wick attached to a long handle.

  6. Paschal candle - Wikipedia

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    The Paschal candle, like all liturgical candles, must be made at least from the most part of beeswax (ex cera apum saltem in maxima parte). [1] The Church Fathers saw the bee as a symbol of the Virgin Mary. [2] The beeswax symbolized the pure flesh of Christ, received from his mother. [3]

  7. W. H. Burford & Sons - Wikipedia

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    W. H. Burford and Sons was a soap and candle-making business founded in Adelaide in 1840 by William Henville Burford (1807–1895), an English butcher who arrived in the new colony in 1838. It was one of the earliest soapmakers in Australia, and up to the 1960s when it closed, the oldest.

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