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Rubbish Boy's Original Edition
How it started.
This wax started life out of curiosity over some coconut oil, I never dreamt it would go this far. I saw someone using coconut oil as substitute for butter on a cracker. The sight of it instantly reminded me of a car wax and when I learnt what it was, my intrigue depended further especially as I had seen coconut oil listed in car wax ingredients.
My intrigue took me to the Internet and I spent several hours researching how a car wax is made and what ingredients can be used. I also placed a post on an Internet forum, "Detailing World" where my my username is rubbishboy hence the name. I asked for advice hoping someone had been intrigued as much as myself at some point. As luck would have it someone had been, Dom at Dodo Juice and he gave some great advice and even a recipe that he had tried once.
I spent many lunch breaks , evenings, and weekends researching ingredients and experimenting with recipes to get a wax that was usable. I think some people actually doubted my sanity, and still do. I was looking for ingredients every where, looking for equipment that would be worth experimenting with, and ended up spending quite a substantial amount of money on equipment and ingredients.
I posted some of my results onto the forum, and these were seen by Dom at Dodo Juice, he offered to evaluate the wax for me and give me some feedback. He was quite impressed with what I had achieved at home. With no previous chemistry knowledge and no lab equipment, I had managed to impress a professional wax maker!
Juiced Edition.
Until this point I hadn't really considered actually selling my wax, but Dom suggested we work together to produce Rubbish Boy's Original Edition and Rubbish Boy's Juiced Edition, the Dodo Juice version of my wax tweaked by Dodo Juice's chemists to try and make it even better and more mainstream. Brightly coloured, scented and a softer texture The Juiced Edition wax was completed and tested and went on sale on the 30th November 2007. We thought it would be fun to let you decide which is best, the handmade at home version or the professional, production version, you decide.
What's in Original Edition?
The basis of the wax is carnauba wax, I think the best ingredient for a car wax. It's not an easy wax to work with though, in it's raw state it is very, very hard. To make it manageable it is softened with other waxes, in this recipe I used beeswax, a great wax in it's own right.
Using just these two waxes would still make a wax that is unusable, so we need to add some lubrication and some form of solvent to make the wax cure when applied. I have used a combination of various oils:- Coconut oil, orange oil (this gives it that orange smell), and sunflower oil all help to soften it and make the wax what it is.
How Much Carnauba?
Okay, lets talk about carnauba content. It's a sore point for the majority of manufacturers, if they tell you how much is in the total product you won't be impressed. So they tell how much carnauba is their product by wax content rather than total product. It really does sound more impressive if you have 100% carnauba wax rather than 3% doesn't it?
Original Edition contains 28% carnauba of total product by weight, or if you want to compare like for like, 83% of wax content is carnauba. I could have used 100% carnauba but then I wouldn't have been able to include any beeswax, and I like beeswax too!