Crayons

Summary:
Engineer ask why not.... Buy HoneySticks crayon from shopnewzealand.co.nz

As my 14 months old little one still has the habit to put things into her mouth, I started a crayon hunt with the criteria safe and edible.

Most of the crayons in the market contains paraffin wax (a petroleum product). Personally, I prefer products that uses bee wax or carnauba wax (a kind of plant).

DIY crayons seems quite interesting and doable. The main ingredients are

1. 1 oz of wax (bee wax or carnauba wax)

2. 1.5 oz of Cacao butter

3. Food grade coloring or natural coloring like

- beet root (red)

- pandan leave (green)

- turnamic (yellow)

- purple cabbage with vinegar (blue)

Steps

1. Heat and melt wax and butter in a bowl inside a boiling water

2. Add in the color pigment

3. Pour into the mould that you like

Reference:

http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-make-crayons/

However, both bee wax and cacao butter is not easily found in Sg and Malaysia. The price is quite steep. Taking into considerations the tools and ingredients that are needed (In short, I am lazy!) I decided to buy instead! There are a few brands of beewax crayon that are available, and blog below gives a good introduction:

http://themindfulhome.blogspot.sg/2013/07/the-best-non-toxic-beeswax-and-soy.html

I go with the first one below- the reason is simple, it do shop to SG!

1. Honeysticks crayon from New Zealand

2. WeCanToo crayon -amazon but dont ship to SG

3. Eco-kids - amazon but dont ship to SG

Shall wait for the product to ship to me. I have ordered on 3 May 2016, lets see when will it arrive.

Update: It arrives on 10 May 2016, just nice in a week time which I think is quite reasonable. Here is how the crayon packaging looks like and i tried out all the 12 colors before baby Chern plays with it.

The honeysticks crayon packaging

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The 12 colors of the honeysticks crayon, nice color, I like it!