Natural ingredients
We choose to use turpentine, a natural solvent, made from distilled pine sap. The alternative is cheaper white spirit, a man made synthetic chemical solvent, that does not provide the same quality standards. We also use natural beeswax, made with the help of lots of hard working bees. Our products do not contain any harmful silicones, propellant gases, or synthetic solvents.
Traditionally made
Central to our ethos is a traditional 19th century Victorian recipe and process. It was rediscovered in 1979, by Adrian Perkins, the original owner of Cambridge Traditional Products. To this day, we faithfully follow that original recipe, so you can enjoy heritage, enhance something, and harm nothing.
Handmade
To truly respect heritage, and produce our range to such high original standards, our products are made by hand, in our Cambridge workshop.
Products
As well as using natural beeswax, we use natural turpentine instead of white spirit. By respecting traditional recipes and using natural turpentine, we produce better quality products, so you get remarkable results in your wood and furniture restoration, and crafting projects. Try our products. We're confident it'll be a trial with no error.
Where to buy
Individuals
Online
Our very own safe and secure online shop
Locally
A list of all the companies that stock our products in the UK, Europe and Japan
Wholesalers and Retailers
We already supply a range of wholesalers across the UK. Talk to us today to discuss how your business can stock our products.
International exports
We already have several international clients in countries such as Japan, Germany and Holland. Talk to use today if you’re interested in importing our products.
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About us
Our team believes in heritage, quality and responsibility. We produce natural beeswax polish, beeswax sticks and other products in the traditional and natural way.
Cambridge Traditional Products
We are guardians of an original 19th century Victorian recipe for beeswax furniture polish, handed down to us by Adrian Perkins who discovered it in 1979. Our natural, handmade, traditional approach stems from this small piece of history.
Bee friendly
We all need to be aware of the pressures that Bee populations face globally. From the exploitation of bees that are overworked in industrial scale commercial pollination, to the continued use of harmful pesticides and habitat loss.
The beeswax we purchase for our products is produced and collected in a sustainable manner that does not adversely affect bee welfare.
We noticed that sometimes, in the summer, bees were coming into the workshop and, attracted by the smell, would kill themselves by landing in hot wax when we were pouring sticks, so we made a netted area to prevent this.
Our beeswax furniture polish is being used to restore 19th century oak choir stalls at St Mary-le-Tower Church in Ipswich
Charity support
We are proud to support charity restoration projects — we are able to donate beeswax furniture polish to people involved in restoring historic buildings like churches, museums and public buildings. Contact us to tell us about what you are doing and we will donate our beeswax polish to projects we feel can benefit.
Testimonials
Here's what some of our happy customers have to say about our natural handmade bees wax products.
“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”
Articles
We regularly write articles with tips on how to get the most out of our products and an exploration of some of their less obvious uses. Topics are related to our natural hand made products and include crafts, furniture care and restoration, outdoors and boating and building restoration.
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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.