Wood butter is a wonderful homemade product that you can use for all of your wood kitchen items from wooden spoons to cutting boards. We had an old salad bowl that we’d had since we were married. The surface of the bowl really needed some restoring.
The process of restoring the bowl was quite easy. Just dab a little of the wood butter on the surface of the bowl with a dry cloth and buff into the surface.
Immediately you will notice a differance in the surface. One side clearly looks restored while the other side needs a little work.
The beeswax gives it a beautiful golden color. You can make some to keep and give the rest away over the holidays. This recipe can be easily halved.
Homemade Wood Butter
Ingredients:
8 ounces of pure beeswax
32 ounces of mineral oil
Directions:
Bring a large saucepan filled with water to a gentle boil.
Place your beeswax inside an old coffee can or a glass measuring cup and set your container gently into the boiling water.
Place the container of mineral oil inside another medium saucepan filled with water and heat to low. The mineral oil just needs to be warmed to mix with the beeswax; no need for a rolling boil!
Once the wax has melted turn off your stove and carefully add the warmed mineral oil to the beeswax; stirring with a spoon to combine.
Take your small canning jars and place them on your counter. Using a potholder carefully pour the liquid into each jar filling them almost to the top. Finish filling all the jars and wait for them to cool and firm up before using.
Warning: mineral oil is very slippery! Hold onto the coffee can carefully as you pour the wood butter into the jars or it can slip out of your hand and onto the floor which will result in an amazing mess! Speaking from experience 😉





Where do you get bees wax from? Is this safe for boles that you eat out of. And can you use it on Gourds as it is had to find sum thing so you can eat from,hot are cold/.? I live in Australia Nanango Qld 4615 53 Kurrajong Dve, Can you send me the Recipe, Here is my E mail, littlecyrilmanmurphy72@outlook.com
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Cyril,
We used to raise bees so we have leftover beeswax from when the honey was extracted from the hives. However you can purchase it commercially as well. I used this wood butter on our salad bowl which we use all the time!
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