Carnauba Hydrate, or: Get a Life, Chrono!
04-08-2014, 11:05 PM
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Carnauba Hydrate, or: Get a Life, Chrono!
Hello all,
After some toil and trouble, I have developed a Carnauba Spray Wax of my own design, just for fun, and because I looked at my bottle of high-end commercial spray wax and thought “I can do that”. And so I did. I call it Carnauba Hydrate.
My goals were to use simple and MILD ingredients, with no petroleum distillates, and no turpentine. It’s the closest thing to a true LSP spray that I’ve used. However, it really shines as a wax rejuvenator. I can’t call this a QD – it has real wax in it (copious amounts for a spray) and thus does not wick away like a QD.
Making a quart takes me about a week, a few minutes a day, without really trying. I could get it done in four days if I were home to tend to the heat cycles. Raw, crushed Brazilian best-grade carnauba wax is basically poached on top of water while adding certain ingredients. Through heat cycling, I’ve devised a method to leach out the carnauba’s goodness into the water, adding only miniscule amounts of a simple Orange Oil solution and a few other ingredients during each cycle. I think it’s the repeated cycles that allow emulsification of the wax without gobs of solvent. Using turpentine, I could get this done in one pass. But my goal was MILD ingredients - that do not strip existing waxwork.
Wetting agents and lubricants were added both during the heat cycle (glycerol, almond oil, and beeswax) as well as the cool phase (aloe vera, and a polyethylene/polyvinyl wetting solution).
Samples are all gone, sorry! Will be making more soon
After some toil and trouble, I have developed a Carnauba Spray Wax of my own design, just for fun, and because I looked at my bottle of high-end commercial spray wax and thought “I can do that”. And so I did. I call it Carnauba Hydrate.
My goals were to use simple and MILD ingredients, with no petroleum distillates, and no turpentine. It’s the closest thing to a true LSP spray that I’ve used. However, it really shines as a wax rejuvenator. I can’t call this a QD – it has real wax in it (copious amounts for a spray) and thus does not wick away like a QD.
Making a quart takes me about a week, a few minutes a day, without really trying. I could get it done in four days if I were home to tend to the heat cycles. Raw, crushed Brazilian best-grade carnauba wax is basically poached on top of water while adding certain ingredients. Through heat cycling, I’ve devised a method to leach out the carnauba’s goodness into the water, adding only miniscule amounts of a simple Orange Oil solution and a few other ingredients during each cycle. I think it’s the repeated cycles that allow emulsification of the wax without gobs of solvent. Using turpentine, I could get this done in one pass. But my goal was MILD ingredients - that do not strip existing waxwork.
Wetting agents and lubricants were added both during the heat cycle (glycerol, almond oil, and beeswax) as well as the cool phase (aloe vera, and a polyethylene/polyvinyl wetting solution).
Samples are all gone, sorry! Will be making more soon
Last edited by Chrono; 04-09-2014 at 02:42 PM.
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04-09-2014, 09:37 AM
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looks like cheese curds.
Ambitious, chemistry project. Good for you, I can appreciate your time dedicates to the process.
Lets see it applied to the vehicle.
Ambitious, chemistry project. Good for you, I can appreciate your time dedicates to the process.
Lets see it applied to the vehicle.
04-09-2014, 10:37 AM
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THANKS FOR THE RESPONSES! I have a bit too many requests at this point for the amount of product on-hand, so I will have to select only five people for the samples (sorry!). Rennlist Members get priority, and from there, length of time and amount of posts. Again, sorry, I'd like to send out 20 samples but there's just not that much available, and I want to wait for comments before making another batch.
Not a chemist, engineer. But, I worked in a biology lab for several years and have worked with, and have friends who are PhD chemists.
You start wiping away immediately or wait for a haze, but in my testing, the result is equally as good. There's two schools of thought: By drying to haze, you're letting the wax cure. By rubbing it in and wiping away, you're "feeding" the paint. I prefer the wipe-away method due to the high water content of any non-aerosol spray product. Also, apply to CLEAN paint for best results.
I'm smitten with Carnauba Hydrate for now. I tend to prefer the classy/technical names to the radical/groovy. I guess I'm old-fashioned in that way, but if I heard a conversation about wax and one guy swore on Insulator Wax and another said Banana Armour, the former sounds more "real" to me. (with no offense to Dodo Juice, Rainforest Rub is the bomb).
You start wiping away immediately or wait for a haze, but in my testing, the result is equally as good. There's two schools of thought: By drying to haze, you're letting the wax cure. By rubbing it in and wiping away, you're "feeding" the paint. I prefer the wipe-away method due to the high water content of any non-aerosol spray product. Also, apply to CLEAN paint for best results.
I'm smitten with Carnauba Hydrate for now. I tend to prefer the classy/technical names to the radical/groovy. I guess I'm old-fashioned in that way, but if I heard a conversation about wax and one guy swore on Insulator Wax and another said Banana Armour, the former sounds more "real" to me. (with no offense to Dodo Juice, Rainforest Rub is the bomb).