Polishing My Wooden Tamper
The weather is warming, snow is melting and though it is still chilly outside, I am ready to throw open my windows and scrub my house down from top to bottom! While I don’t like certain aspects of cleaning like washing windows or mopping the floor, I love polishing wood. I think it is because that I can sit down and focus on just that single task. Today I wanted to share a simple yet easy to make wood polish.
Weighing Beeswax
I will warn you, this wood polish needs a soft cloth and a little elbow grease. I found that I could make my wood shine beautifully but a little heat helped even out the layer of wood wax and made the wood positively glow! You can use a hair drier or a heat gun to give that tiny bit of heat. You don’t need much! Just enough heat to slightly soften the wax.
| Ingredients Beeswax Carnauba Wax |
Equipment Scale Microwave Safe Container Spoons Pipettes |
Recipe:
| Recipe in Grams 56 grams Beeswax 28 grams Carnauba Wax |
Recipe in Ounces 2 oz Beeswax 1 oz Carnauba Wax |
Recipe in Percentages 66.5% Beeswax 33.5% Carnauba Wax |
Weighing Carnauba
Weigh both the beeswax and the carnauba wax is into a microwave safe container. Heat until the mixture is liquid. Caution! It will be hot! Be careful to avoid slashing, spilling and other accidents. Pour the hot mixture into molds or containers. I used an ice cube mold from IKEA but you can use anything you have on hand. I found that pouring the mixture into silicone molds made it easier to use when I went to polish my wood items.
I was so excited to share with you what this could do, I decided to polish my wooden sauerkraut tamper. Before polishing, my tamper had a light rough texture and was ultra light in color. As a polished the wood, it darkened a little and achieved a beautiful sheen. Wow! I can’t wait to polish the rest of my wooden items!
Melted Wax Mixture
Preparing to Polish my Wooden Tamper
Polishing My Wooden Tamper
I love this! Will you polish my bookcase? 😉
Tina
Wax on. Wax off. LOL Since I don’t have any furniture to wax, I use a homemade polish. I got this recipe from another soaper that went by the name of “Bug”. I’m sure she won’t mind if I share it. :
7% ewax
3.6% sweet orange eo
89% distilled water
0.4% preservative
Melt sweet orange oil and ewax together. Weigh out your distilled water in whatever container you intend to use for storage. You can use mustard/ketchup bottles or squeeze top bottles. When the ewax and eo are melted, stir well, add to the distilled water and it will instantly turn white. Shake it up. It will be thin, but will thicken when cool. Add preservative.
Sounds interesting! What do you usually use this on?
I think this recipe would be good for sticky door, drawer, and window glides? Also you can use it to sharpen needles. I have a beeswax disc in my sewing box for just that reason. Comes in handy. Thanks, Taylor.
Excellent point Cee! I had forgotten about using it for sewing!