Today bee's wax is sometimes used in Automobile waxes but normally it's most used in furniture wax and polishes. You can create your own wax easily, my ancestors did on the plantation on Cape Cod, it is a relatively simple process and fun too. First you require a couple of pots to boil in and then a pot of hot mineral water. Liquid Beeswax furniture polish is simple, use one quarter mug of ivory soap, one quarter pound of beeswax, 1 mug of turpentine and about half a cup of mineral water. Dissolve the soap in hot water, put the shaved wax in the turpentine and then slowly but surely melt together, then pour the soap mixture into the mix and stir with a wooden spoon, once well stirred pour it to a glass jar and you have it, very easy. Bees wax cream furniture polish which can also be used on cars with lessened number of turpentine is made by using and mixing quarter lb of beeswax, 2 cups of turpentine, quarter cup with liquid Ivory soap, 1 mug of warm to cooking food water and quarter glass of pine oil. The only difference it you have to make sure all the beeswax is dissolved first and cool then mix it in the warm soapy water until it congeals and reheat together and dissolve. If you reduce the turpentine content you can use it on your car too. It goes on smooth and it works good. Even though, I am partial to Carnauba wax for cars for it's convenience, but from a natural standpoint of protection the carnauba only lasts three months while the beeswax liquefy might last slightly more time. For solid beeswax furniture polish, which is preferred through the antique dealers we met on the back roads of NH, VT together with Maine, all you do is use equal amounts of linseed oil, beeswax together with turpentine. The finished product is golden brown and listen to through and looks loaded in content. Now you have lemon oil smell within furniture polish, which can easily be added to the boiling water during the process. There are lots of good waxes to use on cars that you would not put on surfboards, furniture or statues. Wax is found in the human ear also. You can find two different types plus your genetics dictate which one you've got. Most plants have some sort of thin protective coating associated with wax also. Most fruit and citrus trees and vegetables plants have wax over the fruit, leaves and vegetables they produce that him and i eat. Many animals and in many cases some fish also organically produce waxes. Other wax components are found in minerals and petroleum products and distillates. There are Polymer or synthetic, manufactured by man into various kinds of waxes. We get waxes from several sources really. The Carnauba we discussed is a preferred wax by several detailers. Carnauba wax is relating to the leaves of the carnauba side trees. The best Carnauba wax comes from in my view the Palm Trees involving Brazil. You can tell a superb carnauba wax by the water beads up as you see when you detail your car or truck. Candelilla wax comes with a plant that grows in portions of Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala and sometimes in the southwestern United States. This is the brown wax and but not just have people used it on cars it's used in phonograph notes, floor dressings, and candles. Although it is the major portion of candle wax, it is mixed in with other waxes normally inside candles we use in our homes. . My websites: goodman ac