Beeswax Carnauba Furniture Polish Recipe

Let dry for about 15 minutes and return to re apply or buff off any leftovers i like to apply a thin enough.

Beeswax carnauba furniture polish recipe. Remove wax from heat and stir in turpentine or mineral spirits. 10 10 3 cm. Making your own. Melt 1 1 2 ounces of coconut oil 2 1 2 ounces of jojoba oil or cold pressed olive oil 1 ounce of beeswax and 1 ounce of carnauba wax in a double boiler over medium heat.

Suffice to say having some beeswax polish on hand is definitely a good idea. Good for polishing wood or bone to a high sheen. To use buff onto a wooden surface with a clean cotton cloth. It is produced in small batches by matt caulfield.

Once the mix is. Then place both pots on the hot plate. Solid furniture polish 100 g carnauba wax 300 g beeswax 400 ml turpentine melt the carnauba wax and the beeswax together heating to 85o 90oc. Turn cloth as it becomes dirty.

Remove from heat stir in 3 parts of turpentine. Remove from heat and stir until cooled. It should be thick and creamy. Beeswax and carnauba neutral shoe polish 50g 3 95.

You can make a double boiler by floating a saucepan inside another pan filled with hot water. Beeswax polish is great to use on a lot of different projects no matter whether you re finishing furniture protecting metal tools or making wooden drawers slide easier. Our polish is handmade here at chain bridge honey farm to a recipe handed down by mrs florence robson. Beeswax and carnauba black shoe polish.

Melt 3 parts beeswax with 1 part carnauba wax. Apply the polish with a clean cloth and rub in small circles. Bring water to a low boil stirring ingredients occasionally to prevent sticking. 50g 1 77oz fractionated coconut oil or mineral oil 10g 0 35oz beeswax.

Combine all the ingredients into the melting pot by weight i use an old postage meter. In this video i make my own home made wood finishing oil wax finish also known as paste wax furniture polish or beeswax polish. Decant into a 100ml 3 3oz jar. The melting point for beeswax is 64ºc 147ºf for carnauba wax 84ºc 183ºf and for damar varnish 120ºc 240ºf.

There are lots of different ways you can make beeswax finish however this is a very simple and basic recipe that will get you far. Place both the beeswax and the olive oil into a double boiler such as demonstrated in the image below. Carnauba wax can be added to any of the previous recipes in small proportions to give great hardness with a high gloss finish.