Beehive Alchemy is the name of a business started by the author to make use of the surplus beeswax produced by her partner's beekeeping enterprise. In addition to handmade soaps, she made and sold lip balms, lotions, salves, creams, perfumes and candles.
An appearance on Martha Stewart's American Made competition in 2013, resulted in an offer for Petra Ahnert to write her first book, Beeswax Alchemy, to help small-scale beekeepers find creative uses for the raw materials that bees provide.
This book, Beehive Alchemy, is a continuation of that inspiration with refinements of some products and new discoveries.
