While more expensive and time consuming than your average bar of wax, here’s an option for all you ultra-environmentally conscious surfers out there. Made from nothing but bee’s wax, coconut oil and tree resin, this wax works well in all water conditions if you play around with the ingredient ratios. Feel free to post comments if you’ve tried your own batch, if you’ve found alternate ingredients or specific ratios for different water temps.
January 16th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Nice video, that’s the recipe which we invented back in 1998 and gave to the surfing world, it’s won quite a few awards around the world .
Just for the record, the recipe was invented by my wife
Regards
Roy Stewart
January 16th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Rad Roy, its so cool to know who came up with that combo. Anyone else out there tweak Roy’s wife’s recipe with any increased success? We’ve been playing with it for a few months now and adding some different ingredients- results coming soon…
January 17th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I hear that some peope are ading kaolin to make the wax bump up more.
We started with the beeswax and coconut oil combination, and searched for quite a while before coming up with the tree resin additive for cold water. The breakthrough came when we found an old book ( from around 1900 ) of industrial recipes, there were ski wax recipes in there for climbing wax, designed to make skis grip in the snow. The recipes used pine resin. That was the clue.
It’s strange but no other oil seems to work at all coconut is the only one, so far.
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January 27th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Interesting stuff. Is this recipe better for cold or warm water? Any way to tweak it one way or the other?
January 28th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
The recipe is better for cool temps ranging from 64-69 degrees Fahrenheit. You can play with the mixture of coconut oil and bee’s wax, the more coconut oil the softer the wax gets thus the better it is for colder water. Happy melting!
February 1st, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Neato, thanks for the tip. When I up the coconut butter content though do i have to include less of anything else?
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:29 pm
No, I didn’t. I just kept the pine resin the same…
February 5th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
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February 6th, 2010 at 5:57 am
Hi, I’m from Brazil, I’d like to know where do you guys find this coconut oil for sale. Is there any kind of industrial coconut oil that could be cheaper? The one I found here it’s too expensive! I`d like to try the recipe in our warm waters! Thanks.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:20 am
@danilo:
it should be very easy to get coconut oil in brazil that s not too expensive but it still won t be as cheap as other oils. look for it online or in super markets. the warmer the water the less oil you put in the mixture. you also don t need the pine resin. so you just need 6 parts wax and one part oil.