Bone pearls are just similar in color to white beeswax. Because the surface is too dry, it is not easy to polish, and it has no luster of jewelry, and its texture is soft, so it cannot be used for carving and car beads. It is amber with low quality and relatively low price. Some unscrupulous merchants often use bone pearls as white beeswax to make huge profits. It is for this reason that many businesses are willing to confuse the difference between the two.
In real life, many people who have just come into contact with white beeswax can't tell the difference between white beeswax and bone wax. In fact, to understand the difference between the two, we must first start with their own characteristics.
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2. White beeswax is the lightest color among beeswax. Good quality white beeswax is similar in color to ivory. You can smell the faint pine fragrance at room temperature, which can soothe the nerves. So white beeswax is also called Xiangpo. It has the luster of jewelry, oily feel and delicate texture. Many people who love beauty like to wear white beeswax ornaments. Good quality white beeswax is rarer and more valuable than other beeswax.
I wonder what kind of amber foreigners think is bone amber?
However, most fans in China think that Cooper is a kind of amber with extremely low density, which is not worth buying and collecting. It is also a trap for merchants to buy white beeswax, and some people think that Cooper is a fighter in white honey with extremely high succinic acid content! In fact, the concept of white beeswax and so-called bone amber has been confused for a long time in the domestic market. I really dare not comment on what bone amber is. In fact, in the minds of most people who think that bone amber is not worth collecting, they mean foam amber, so I will change my vocabulary, not bone amber, but foam amber! As we all know, transparent amber is called amber, and opaque amber is called beeswax. In fact, there are two main factors that lead to the opacity of beeswax: succinic acid and fine bubbles. The opaque beeswax caused by high succinic acid content belongs to white beeswax or white nectar, and the price is higher. The opaque amber caused by bubble filling is called foam amber or garbage amber, which is very light in weight, and some even float in clear water, which is not easy to polish. The finished products are mostly frosted (especially beads above 10mm), and the price is low. However, the current market classification is chaotic, and most merchants equate white beeswax with white beeswax and foam amber, so the market price of foam amber is not necessarily low.