Soft Clear Wax Recipe for Chalk Paint & Furniture- 2 Ingredients $3 TO MAKE!

Hii I'm Wendi with Nashville Restoration
and today we're going to make some clear wax to use with chalk paint.  You need 1/4
of cup of white beeswax pellets and you need a cup of either baby oil or mineral
oil.  You also need a mason jar with a lid. So just to put your
beeswax and baby oil in your mason jar.

It's got to be a mason jar because other
jars you cannot put in boiling water so make sure it's a mason jar.  Put it on the
stove and fill the water so it's just a half inch below the level of the wax or
else your jar will float up put the top. Put your stove on a medium high heat and stand by. You are going to stir it every couple minutes.

Just to get it mixed up and it
is done when the wax pellets disappear and it looks like this. It is  pretty much
clear when it's done. You can let it cool in the pan but if
you want to do it more quickly which I. Usually do, just carefully remove it from
the pan.

It is hot oil and it's very dangerous so do it with a great deal of
caution and use some pot holders. Now you are ready to cool it. Put some ice water in a pan and once again add water just below the level of the oil. You're just going to stir this every few minutes until it starts to turn
cloudy like a cloudy white.

When it looks like this, after about ten minutes of stirring every couple of minutes, take it out of the ice water and put the
lid on and shake it up. You're gonna come back and shake it up for thirty seconds every five minutes or so until it has reached room temperature.
Once it's room temperature it will stay like this it will look like this and
that is your clear wax. This looks pretty much exactly like the clear wax that I
have purchased from some name-brand companies and I can't tell the
difference when I use it. It brushes right on just like the other
waxes do that are commercially prepared.

I came up with this recipe doing
some research trying to figure out what was in clear wax and these were the two
most common ingredients so I skipped any additives and just went with these two ingredients and the shaking it up is really important. That's what keeps it blended.
If you don't shake it up it's gonna you kind of separate. I wanted to show you what it looks like on furniture. So this is just a basic white table.

I'm
gonna brush it on just like any other clear wax. I don't use a wax brush I use
this type of brush. It is  a $6 brush and I can't tell the difference in the
brushes.  I mean after you brush it on  and you're still going to come back and
wipe it down and then if you're distressing you're gonna sand so to me
if you like the brush you're using and the wax goes on then that's the brush
you should use.

So as you do with any wax, you wipe the wax down after you put it
on there. If you're distressing this is when you would distress when the wax is
still fresh on there. It's a lot easier to distress then waiting for the wax to
actually dry and set up. So I did some of this distressing off-camera because I'm going to break out the electric sander because hand sanding the top is pretty
intense.

So this is what it looks like afterwards. This is my clear wax results. I'm
completely happy with it. I've been painting for many years both houses and
furniture and I think this works great.

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