Beeswax Wraps: A Great Alternative to Plastic Wraps?

Yes! Beeswax wrap which is made of 100% cotton cloth and coated with beeswax is a great option to wrap your food in the kitchen. It offers an excellent way to replace plastic bag or cling film, since beeswax food wrap neither contain unsafe chemicals nor toxic.

Except hot food and raw meat, beeswax wraps are suitable to cover food as well as keep fruits and vegetables fresh. Cut lemon, avocado, carrots, melon, herbs, cheese, sandwich, bread, nuts are some of the examples that you could wrap with this cloth wrap. It could be used as a bottle or glass cover and also a bowl or plate cover of leftover food.

Unlike cling film, beeswax wraps are washable and can be reused up to couple of months or until the food wrap is no longer seal tightly, whereas cling film is sort of disposable food wrapping idea and we should not throw away so much plastic trash. 

Before looking for any plastic based product for food storage or packaging, think for seconds about the shortcomings of using plastic. Each single piece of plastic rubbish thrown by us every day is messing up the Earth and we must be responsible for a great amount of plastic waste.

In fact, the chemicals resided in plastic cause us serious health issues such as cancer and many marine creatures were killed by the plastic waste. Other than switching from plastic food wraps to beeswax wraps, there are many other plastic-free approaches we could do for the sake of our humans' health and the lives of other animals.

Three Fundamental Strategies to Avoid Hazardous Candles

One: Preclude fragrance
Fragrance = Red flag!
Any combination of thousands of chemicals may invent artificial scents and most scents are unhealthy for inhalation as they are made of petrochemicals or undisclosed ingredients which are not proven safe.

Two: Examine the wick
Candle wicks are commonly made of braided cotton. However, consumers should be aware of candles made of lead-cored wicks. The fact that burning candles with lead-cored wicks could bring a lead poisoning effect to young children was confirmed by the CPSC (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission). Consumers are advised to ask the retailer for details about the wick used in their candles if they wish to find out whether the metal-cored wick contains lead or not.

Three: Inspect the wax
Vegetable, animal and insect-based wax as well as paraffin (petroleum byproduct) could be sources of waxed candles. Some candle manufacturers may claim single ingredient only in their candles but in fact their candle wax may not be 100 percent and mixed with other unknown ingredients in production. These ingredients may include paraffin, colour or fragrance which lead to asthma, cancer and allergies. Therefore, it's wise to choose waxed candles without scents, pigments and dyes.


Checklist of Choosing the Most Wholesome Candles 
Wax: 100% pure beeswax with its original colour and scent
Wick: 100% cotton without lead
Fragrance: No fragrance

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