My son is making tree branch buttons. We have been looking at recipes for making a polish and sealant for wood products. I have seen different recipes using either olive oil or coconut oil with the beeswax. I used coconut oil and I will make another jar later with olive oil. I read that it can give the wood a tint of green that some people really like and I thought it was nice too.
I put about 1 ounce of beeswax in a glass measuring cup and put that in a pan of water to let the wax melt. After the wax melted, I looked to see how much was in the cup and it was less than 1/4 cup.
The recipe said to use 1 part beeswax and 3 parts either coconut oil or olive oil or 1/4 cup of beeswax and add 3/4 cup of oil.
I filled the measuring cup with the coconut oil to make it 3:1 and let it blend and made sure the wax was melted and then poured it in the jar.
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| The polish after it hardened. |
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This was very easy to make.
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