Composite edible coatings were formulated with candelilla wax alone, and candelilla wax blended with beeswax, white mineral oil and oleic acid (2:1 ratios) as the lipid phase, and mesquite gum as the structural material and their corrected water vapor permeability (WVPc) were determined. The coatings were applied to Persian limes and their effect upon physiological weight loss, color and chemic...

Insects and insect-derived products have been widely used in folk healing in many parts of the world since ancient times. Promising treatments have at least preliminarily been studied experimentally. Maggots and honey have been used to heal chronic and post-surgical wounds and have been shown to be comparable to conventional dressings in numerous settings. Honey has also been applied to treat b...

The present study envisages formulation of wax microparticulate drug delivery system. The objective of the present study was to minimise the unwanted side effects of Ketoprofene drug formulated by Congealable disperse encapsulation method using biodegradable waxes such as beeswax, ceresin wax microspheres using a wetting agent. Solid, discrete, reproducible free flowing microspheres were obtain...

Increasing emissions of chemical compounds to the environment, especially of pesticides, is one of factors that may explain present honeybee colony losses. In this work, an analytical method employing liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) was optimized for the simultaneous screening of 19 pesticides which have not been yet determined in honeybee samples from northern Poland ...

In a Belgian pilot study honey bee wax combs from ten hives were analyzed on the presence of almost 300 organochlorine and organophosphorous compounds by LC-MS/MS and GC-MS/MS. Traces of 18 pesticides were found and not a single sample was free of residues. The number of residues found per sample ranged from 3 to 13, and the pesticides found could be categorized as (1) pesticides for solely api...

Aliphatic alcohols of chain lengths of 24–34 carbons have been found to be beneficial in treating hypercholesterolemia. Approximately 40% of beeswax is long-chain esters which can be transesterified in supercritical carbon dioxide to give these alcohols and fatty acid methyl esters. The methanolysis reaction was catalyzed by an immobilized lipase from Candida antarctica in flowing supercritical...

Abstract The impact of the solvent composition on wax oleogels is addressed by (1) increasing polar components (PC) in sunflower and canola oil through thermal treatment (2) removing minor from untreated oils column chromatography. Subsequently, are produced at 0.05 10 °C min −1 using 4% or 10% w/w either sunflower, rice bran, candelilla, beeswax. Oleogels firmness, break‐up behavior during amp...