Beeswax Food Wraps with Pine Resin
These beeswax food wraps are a fun DIY that will reduce your plastic waste and keep your food fresh and delicious!
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Cost: $10
Equipment
- Pinking shears
- Silicone brush
Ingredients
- Cotton or linen fabric washed and dried
- 4 tablespoons beeswax pastilles
- 3 tablespoons powdered pine resin
- 2 tablespoons jojoba oil
Instructions
- Using pinking shears, cut the fabric into your preferred shapes and sizes.Cotton or linen fabric
- In a double broiler, melt together the beeswax, jojoba oil, and pine resin.4 tablespoons beeswax pastilles, 2 tablespoons jojoba oil, 3 tablespoons powdered pine resin
- Preheat your oven to 300 degrees and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Place the baking sheet in the oven while it's preheating to warm.
- Lay a piece of fabric on the baking sheet.
- Stir the melted beeswax mixture and spread it lightly across the fabric using a silicone brush. Don't worry about covering every section with the wax right now.
- Place the baking sheet in the oven for 2 minutes for the wax to melt and then use the brush to make sure every section has wax on it. If you need to, you can add more wax at this point, or, if there's too much, use the next piece of fabric to sop some of it up.
- Put the baking sheet back in the oven for another 2 minutes.
- Remove the food wrap from the oven and hang on a drying rack or clothesline to dry while repeating the process for the rest of your fabric pieces.
Notes
- The beeswax mixture hardens quickly, so you'll want to keep it hot throughout the entire process. It also works best if the baking sheet is hot when you lay the fabric on it and spread on the beeswax.
- The pine resin tends to sink to the bottom of the mixture, so you'll need to stir the mixture each time before you spread it on the fabric.
