Noun:

Bayberry,

bayberry's Usage Examples:

The colonists discovered they could make wax that produced clean-burning, good-smelling candles by boiling the berries of the bayberry shrub.

If you live along the east coast or North Atlantic regions of America or Canada, you could collect the berries from a local bayberry bush and make your own bayberry candles in the traditional way.

Melt some wax, either bayberry or paraffin, in a coffee can, melting pot or other tall and narrow but deep vessel.

Further, soy often bests bayberry and bees wax, other wonderful carriers of healing oils, in price.

Ayurvedic practitioners suggest gargling with a mixture of water, salt, and tumeric (Curcuma longa) powder or astringents such as alum, sumac, sage, and bayberry (Myrica spp.

Ayurvedic medicinal remedy: Gargling with a mixture of water, salt, and turmeric powder or astringents, such as alum, sumac, sage, and bayberry to ease a sore throat.

Unfortunately, creating bayberry wax was a time-consuming and impractical task.

If you aren't too concerned about doing it the proper way, you can always buy bayberry wax and melt and pour like you would any other candle.

You can purchase special scent blends or combine different oils such as bayberry and vanilla to make your own custom scent.