You need only two ingredients, the Beeswax and the Coconut oil. That’s it (talk about simple). With this recipe you don’t have to worry about the scent as it will smell really nice already.
All you do is mix 2250g of beeswax with 750ml of coconut oil. First melt the wax, then warm the oil and stir into the wax. Stir well, stir some more and then stir(get the idea!). Pour into Paper cups and let it set.
There is a temptation to use other vegetable oils. Don’t bother. Coconut is the one.
For Sticky Cool Water Surf Wax :
The mixture now is 3 parts Beeswax, 1 part coconut oil and 1 part tree resin. Make in the same way adding the beeswax coconut oil and tree resin together and stirring well.
(Tree resin can be bought in the form of granulated incense (as used by the Catholic Church) but can work out to be quite expensive - i.e. buy wax from a shop and save money - but can also be taken at the source - i.e. straight from the tree.
Roy, good on ya and all, ya crazy Kiwi! Half life of 10 min, LOL!! I’m still inspired by the homemade wax, and hope to get to it soon. I’ll have to make a point of getting to NZ one of these days. Love to try one of those hoop fins of yours.
PM right back at you Jar. Bummed they zapped Roy’s post. I wanted to check it out again today. I know he has his issues, but there was nothing offensive in that post…
Well this thread has inspired me to start over again. Roy’s recipe is just too damn slippery for Hawaiian waters. I’m going to start plain and simple. I just waxed my favorite board with pure bee’s wax and will start from there. So far no surf but I can tell that it is a bit too hard…and I mean just a bit. I might just be able to surf on it without having to wax it with regular wax. From there I’ll water it down in slight increments with coconut oil. The wax bumped up like I like but took a while to do so. Probably because it’s too hard. If I could get a cheap source of beeswax I’d bee tempted to do a lot of R and D.
A few years ago, I too experimented with homemade wax using bees wax (the two sorts : the white purified one and the yellow unfiltered one). Coconut trees are hard to find in France but I found out that coconut oil was very cheap and available in any grocery store under the name “Vegetaline”. Vegetaline is in fact hydrogenated coconut oil and it’s widly used as a frying oil (not very healthy though). I used sillicon muffin molds to cast the wax.
I remember I had good results but the wax was too hard for the french water temp. However it was very good as a base coat wax. I still have plenty of bees wax left, maybe I’ll try again if I can find some tree resin or any other way to make the wax stickier.
Just found a cheap source for colophony (pine rosin) : about 4USD per kg in any local store over here in the french countryside. (it’s used by farmers for the removal of poultry feathers).
I’ll have to kick my own okole here and try making some of that wax finally. Keep reminding me.