I need help recreating a beeswax wood polish I made before.
A few of months ago I was in need of a beeswax polish, so I made one myself using some old red beeswax sheets I had lying around. The red color actually made it really good for darker and/or stained wood. Long story short I needed to make more, and I've used up the last of the old beeswax to make the red one on the left in the image but I can't seem to be able to recreate even the texture. The one of the right is made with beeswax with nothing else in it.
Both of these practically have the same ratio of beeswax, turpentine, and linseed oil, the only thing that differs is the raw wax.
The red one is perfect, it's firm, it's uniform and it feels thicker somehow. The neutral one is soft, gooey, and grainy.
(The source of the red wax was Bijenhuis Wageningen, but they don't make that anymore, I tried contacting them but they have a new owner so my inquiries didn't yield anything)
I really need some help with this, it's driving me up the wall because I don't understand what's wrong.
Edit: My friend, who's a biochemist, figured out the problem: Water, there's water in the beeswax structure. Cheaper wax isn't dried properly after being rendered, which involves it being boiled in water.
