Help keep your wood furniture in tip tip condition and make your own DIY wood polish with beeswax and plant based oils to make a simple and effective beeswax furniture polish without all those nasty additives in the spray polish you pick up in the store.
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Beeswax Furniture Polish Ingredients
Beeswax furniture polish gives raw wood a beautiful satin sheen and protects the wood from scratching. I like to make natural wood polish which doesn’t contain mineral oil. I don’t use mineral oil on my furniture or in beauty products and I try to avoid it as much as possible. Mineral oil is formed from the distillation of crude oil for the fuel industry and is often an ingredient in DIY furniture polish recipes because it’s cheap. My furniture polish is made with simple ingredients like plant derived oils and beeswax from my own honeybees to avoid mineral oil and other additives that are in commercial furniture polishes in a spray can.
To make this furniture polish you will need:
- Beeswax
- Olive Oil
- Grapeseed oil
- Essential oils
These simple ingredients make a semi-hard polish that can easily be applied to wood with a soft brush
or soft cloth. You can see how nicely the grain of this walnut is now it has some polish on it!
Beeswax
Protects the wood from scratching and damage and helps to keep the oils in the wood. Beeswax makes the wood feel velvety and gives a satin sheen. You will need beeswax that has been cleaned and rendered. If you have raw beeswax you can see how to do it here, if you don’t have a beehive then you can use beeswax pellets
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Olive Oil
Is soaked up by the wood hydrating it
Grapeseed Oil
Helps to preserve the olive oil and stop it from becoming rancid. by acting as an antioxidant. You can also use a few drops of vitamin E.
Essential Oils
Adding essential oils isn’t required but help provide scent to your cleaning activities. Popular and traditional essential oils for furniture polish are lemon and lavender or orange.
Tools Needed To Make Beeswax Furniture Polish
Good tools make the process so much easier. When working with beeswax it is best to dedicate tools for working with it as beeswax can be difficult to remove. To make this natural beeswax furniture polish you will need:
- a double boiler
- measuring cups and spoons
- a stirring spoon
- containers
Double Boiler
A double boiler makes melting the beeswax ans mixing the oils a bit safer. Take great care in melting beeswax and mixing the oils, you will be heating and using hot water and melted wax which can burn and scald. Always ensure you act safety when working with heat and flammable substances.
Containers
To keep your beeswax furniture polish you will need to plate it into a container. I like these deep metal tins from SKS Bottle & Packaging Inc. which are easy to recycle where I live and the rolled edge on the lid makes them easy to open and they close easily. Natural cleaning products don’t have as long a shelf life as their chemically made counterparts, as such a secure lid helps to keep moisture and air out of the polish which helps stop the oils from turning bad. This is great if you are making a number of these polishes for gifts to share or if you are trying to make in bulk.
How To Make Beeswax Furniture Polish
Firstly, measure out your ingredients. You will need:
- 4 oz olive oil
- 1 oz beeswax
- 1 tsp grapeseed oil
- 1/4 tsp essential oil (optional)
Next, place the beeswax into the double boiler and start heating the water in the lower section of the double boiler to begin melting the wax.
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When the wax starts melting, add the olive and grapeseed oils to the pan. Keep heating through the double boiler until the beeswax is completely melted then remove from the heat.
Add the essential oils if you are using them and stir to thoroughly mix.
Carefully fill your tins. Place newspaper down if you are prone to spills to protect your work surface and be aware that the oils may be hot so take exceptional care to prevent burns and scalds.
Allow your beeswax furniture polish to cool completely at room temperature.
Once cool, cover with the lid or start polishing!
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