Slippery candle wax

stearic acid.

Are you able to confide in us the application ?

Meantime, you could play with this recipe.

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.........Don't recommend that: surfboard wax is to make your feet "stick" to the board, not, to make it "slip" through the water.

You haven't said whether or not this product will be exposed to humans. If so, you can add a little beeswax and glycerin without making an irritating or toxic product.

Slipperiness can come from the material being "hydrophilic"...meaning it will collect a surface film of water from the air...the addition of glycerin will do this. A bit of gum arabic could help, depending on the type of wax you're using.

Slipperiness can come from a slightly softer film of a substance on the surface or it can be "intrinsic" to the materials...if it is not for human consumption, you can add a powder of very small teflon particles, or silicone.

Apart from possible toxicity issues, maybe have a look at hard wax polish recipes such as those for domestic old-style "quarry tiles".

Our Trustworthy friend from South Africa--Hendrik --can get you linked to SASOL.

They make the best F-T wax. -- all kinds-- worldwide.

A few suggestions: Look at some of the synthetic "waxes" that are used for mold release agents in extrusion and injection molding. They are generally not water soluble. Also some silicone oils may be of interest. Fluorocarbons are likely too expensive for what you want.

Think paraffin (the wax, not kerosene) and mineral oil. You heat the paraffin slowly until throughly melted, mix in the mineral oil and allow to cool in molds. Experiment with the percentages until you achieve the desired result. You might start with 10% (by volume) mineral oil.

what you want is a liqed wax , you sould call maglouthlin wax co, in L,A,they have all kinds of waxes . you say it slippery like a bar of soap, that meas soft wax, i,e, a wax with a high contactent of baby oil and reson ( like tree ) .If you could aford it use bee wax as the base wax instead of perafine. I get my wax from the cathic cenitery the use the candles once and dispose of then. I use to go to the locale recyling center and get my wax there in the used candle contaner. Hope that helps you havent said want your up to, but good luck bill busuttil in germany.

Thank you all, your replies have been most helpful. Also,

Thank you Bill, (guest) Never thought of recycled wax!

(wish I could write German as good as you do English)

Many thanks

jt.

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You can use the low polymer wax coming out from HDPE manufacturing plant using Mitsui Technology. This low polymer has all the properties as you have described and can be used with candle wax. As this is a by product from HDPE(high density poly ethylene) plant, it is cheap also.

I have a lot of low polymer wax from HDPE,PP,LDPE....what can I do with it?