A childhood belief about around the house

When I was a kid, we had a package of beeswax in the kitchen, for just what use(s) I don't know. But one time my mother told me that beeswax was wax out of people's ears. So I thought that for a long time. It wasn't until college that I again had enough occasion to encounter and think about beeswax to question what my mother had said. Only then did I get to thinking, from the name, that beeswax might just come from bees, not from human ears.