Beeswax Furniture Polish
Beeswax Furniture Polish
Enhance, protect, feed, and preserve all types of indoor natural wood furniture, such as oak, mahogany, beech and walnut. Use our handmade beeswax furniture polish for a warm silky glow. Our beeswax polish will restore beauty to furniture from the past, whilst caring for, feeding, protecting and enhancing natural woods and veneers of today.
Uses
All natural woods such as oak, mahogany, beech and walnut
Internal wood products - furniture, doors, windows and floors
All wood veneers
Antique furniture
Furniture restoration, reviving natural wood and covering scratches
Historic buildings such as pubs, churches, museums, and other heritage buildings.
Colours
Use the neutral beeswax furniture polish on light or dark wood. Neutral polish will not affect the colour of the wood.
The brown beeswax furniture polish is for medium to dark woods. Use it for:
Even better scratch-cover properties than the neutral polish
Revive distressed oak
Darkening and 'aging' pine
Gradually staining light woods - the first application will darken the wood slightly, each subsequent application will darken the tone, and when the desired shade is achieved, you can maintain it with our neutral beeswax furniture polish
A natural choice for better results
Suitable for natural woods and veneers, our beeswax furniture polish does not contain silicones, propellant gases or synthetic solvents. Silicones cause blooming on natural wood, whilst propellant gases and synthetic solvents are bad for the environment. This beeswax furniture polish is a natural choice of beeswax polish for better results.
Our beeswax polish will help restore beauty to furniture from the past, whilst caring for, feeding, protecting and enhancing natural woods and veneers of today. We believe our ancestors knew more about caring for natural wood than modern chemists. So, we use an original, traditional 19th century Victorian recipe that was rediscovered in 1979 by Adrian Perkins, the Founder of Cambridge Traditional Products. To this day, we faithfully follow that original recipe, using natural ingredients - mainly natural beeswax and natural turpentine.
Natural beeswax and turpentine designed to feed and enhance wood
Turpentine is a natural solvent, made from distilled pine sap, whilst white spirit is a man made synthetic chemical solvent and an artificial turpentine substitute. Our turpentine is tapped from organic gum trees without harming them. This natural turpentine is what feeds your wood, helping to maintain better quality results, over and above comparative white spirit based furniture polish. White spirit evaporates more quickly, drying out wood instead of feeding it.
In addition our beeswax furniture polish is a cream rather than a paste. Using natural turpentine and a cream polish has the following benefits:
Needs less elbow grease
Does not produce unsightly build up, which gets caught in nooks and crannies, and sets like concrete
A little goes a long way - our cream based beeswax polish is cheaper in the long run, when compared to pastes and aerosols
Our beeswax polish does not contain toxic and allergenic toluene
How it's made
This tried and tested recipe, passed down from generation to generation, is lovingly handmade in the tiny village of Cottenham in Cambridge, in an equally tiny workshop.
Ingredients
Waxes
Natural turpentine
Raw soap flakes
Water
Ingredients are dissolved in turpentine, and water, by heating them. The two solutions are combined and stirred overnight in a mixing vat. As the mixture cools an emulsion is created.
“The 17th century oak in the Gallery at Hutton-in-the-Forest now sparkles and shines more than it has for many a long year, thanks to Cambridge Traditional Beeswax Polish”