Tuesday 11 December 2018

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.