homemade recipe for preparing liquid carnuba wax.

[fredk]

My opinion on this.

Carnauba on its own might be fine for edge burnishing but not for surface polishing on flexible leather.

Carnauba is a very hard wax. Its used on wood furniture because of its hardness. Its used in the French Polishing technique, as a final coating polish because of its hardness.

On leather, the leather first absorbs the turps, but the leather does not absorb the wax which remains on the surface of the leather. The wax dries out and the wax continues to harden. As it hardens it will form cracks and eventually crack and break off the leather surface

That is why its usually mixed with beeswax. Beeswax is actually a bee reprocessed honey. A honey bee is fed honey and it processes it in its body and extrudes platelettes of wax. For every 6 to 7 pounds of honey 1 pound of wax is made. Beeswax has a lower melting temperature and also contains more moisture which helps it to be absorbed into leather. But beeswax on its own is a poor polish so carnauba, which is from a tree, is added for hardness

My qualifications on this are; Once upon a time I was a bee keeper. I used to make polishes for car-finishers, furniture polishers, leatherworkers and more. I attended certain instruction courses to learn about polishes so I could mix polishes to suit the end users. Some end users used to travel from all over this island to search me out for my polishes. I wasn't in the Turtlewax league but specialists preferred my polishes

[paloma]

wall paint and carnuba wax.

 

[johnv474]

Looks amazing.  What would you change in the process if you used citrus turpentine as a solvent?

 

Do you know of any product that would help preserve this product so it could last longer in storage?