The Fat Ewe Farm and Bed and Breakfast
The Fat Ewe Farm and Moose Hills Inn
Organic Permaculture Farmin' for
the Lazy Ewes
  • The Fat Ewe Farm
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • The Fat Ewe Farm Store
  • Livestock Breeds (click here to see all the breeds)
    • Angora goats
    • Icelandic Sheep
    • Jacob sheep
    • Old English Southdown Babydoll Sheep >
      • Babydoll Sheep on the Fat Ewe Farm
  • Contact Us
    • Photo Gallery (click here for some awesome photos or watch the slideshow) >
      • Video Slide Show
    • Phone Number
    • Map
  • Sale Barn
  • Recipes From the Fat Ewe
    • Old Stuff
  • How Much Meat Do You Get?
  • Ukrainian Easter Eggs
  • Moose Hills Inn

Making Beeswax Furniture Polish

9/16/2015

0 Comments

 
Some time ago, people did not have the privilege of running to a store to buy what they needed or wanted. They learned to make things themselves and really be self sufficient. I have been working with some antique wood furniture, trying to decide whether to paint it or keep it original. It has value in the original state only if there are buyers for it. Otherwise, it is basically just old furniture taking up space. 

The old furniture was not finished with petroleum based products, but rather shellac, which is the resin secrete by  a bug on trees primarily in India and was once used in the final coat of furniture to seal and shine it. Thereafter, the pieces were polished wiht beeswax furniture polish or reshellaced. So, I learned how to make a simple beeswax polish. It is organic and easy and also not hard on the environment or the skin. I used some as hand cream today to test out my product and it was wonderful, quickly drying, but not caking on my hands, and providing a smooth silky finish which was water repellent. This is a barrier cream, but alas, it was not designed for hands. 

I plan to polish the antiques, I guess, not paint them, at least not yet. I cannot think of painting that lovely wood. Well, I do think of it, but it gets voted down in my little mind. To make the beeswax polish I used two ingredients: lime terpene, which is the solvent from cold pressed limes, yes, the fruit, and beeswax. The wax was cut in small bits about a centimetre square and a half centimeter thick. I put some in an emamel pot and poured the terpene over and stirred, then  left it over night. Over the next three days, I stirred and added more terpene. On the fourth day, the mixture was soft and smooth with no distinguishable lumps of beeswax, as the wax had dissolved into the terpene. The polish has a wonderful lingering but not overpowering lime scent too! 

The polish made a few jars and a tester, but I don't know how much I used of each ingredient. If you are going to try it, start by covering thte beeswax with terpene, then add more terpene as the wax softens until the consistency is what you think it should be. Not great directions, huh? But really, I don't think you can go wrong. Too thin, add more wax, too thick , add more terpene. By the way, the terpenes come from the distillation of the plants and there are mint, eucalyptus. clove, lemon, tangerine, orange and the lime. Mixes of two or three different terpenes are also possibilities. Would you like to try some?


Picture
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Categories

    All
    Airstream Land Yacht 1964
    Alpacas
    Alpine Goats
    Ameraucana Chickens
    American Buff Geese
    Ancona Ducks
    Angora Goats
    Angora Goats
    Angora Rabbits.
    Babydoll Southdown Sheep
    Babydoll Southdown Sheep
    Bed And Breakfast
    Berkshire Pigs
    Blue Faced Leicester Sheep
    Blue Swedish Ducks
    Boer Goats
    Border Collie
    Border Collie
    Bronze Turkey Standard
    Bronze Turkey (Standard)
    Canadian Horses
    Canadian Horses
    Cats
    Chickens
    Cotswold Sheep
    Crafts And Hobbies
    Cream Legbar Chickens
    Dorset Sheep
    Ducks
    Embden Geese
    E'st A Laine Merino Sheep
    Farm Life
    Farm Life
    Farm Store
    Finnsheep
    Flemish Giant Rabbit
    Flowers
    French Lop Rabbit
    Galloway Cattles
    Gardening
    Gotland Sheep
    Guinea Fowl
    Herbs
    Holstein Steer
    Icelandic Sheep
    Jacob Sheep
    Japanese Bantam Chickens
    Jersey Cow
    Kahaki Campbell Ducks
    Karakul Sheep
    Kiko Goats
    Kilo Highland Cows
    Light Sussex Chicken
    Livestock Guardian Dogs
    Livestock Guardian Dogs
    Maremma Sheepdogs
    Maremma Sheepdogs
    Meishan Pigs
    Miniature Nigerian Dwarf Goats
    Moose Hills Inn
    Muscovy Ducks
    Norwegian Red Dairy Cow
    Nubian Goats
    Nygora Goat
    Ossabaw Hogs
    Partidge Chantecler Chickens
    Pekin Ducks
    Permaculture
    Pied Guinea Fowl
    Polish/Ameraucana Bantam Cross Chickens
    Polled Dorset Sheep
    Potbelly Pigs
    Pygmy Goats
    Recipes
    Rigit Galloway Cows.
    Romanov Sheep
    Romney Sheep
    Rouen Ducks
    Saddleback Pomeranican Geese
    Saxony Ducks
    Sebastopol Geese
    Sheep And Goats
    Shetland Sheep
    Silver Spangled Hamburg Chicken
    Soap And Hand Made Cosmetics
    Standard Jack Donkey
    Sustainability
    Swiss Blackneck Goats
    The Llamas
    The Llamas
    Toulouse Geese
    Tunis Sheep
    White Chantecler Chickens
    White Danish Geese
    Wool

    Author

    Fluffy writes daily about the experiences on the farm and with the bed and breakfast patrons. 

    Archives

    October 2020
    September 2019
    June 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013

    view old blog site

    RSS Feed

Contact Us
Home

The Fat Ewe Farm 

All text and photos are the sole property of The Fat Ewe Farm  and may not be used without written permission.