Many quality waxes are made with a blend of carnauba, a naturally water resistant wax derived from the Copernicia cerifera plant. Carnauba wax products come in a paste or liquid form and may be applied by hand or machine. In its natural state, carnauba is rock hard. Wax makers use petroleum distillates to make it soft.

Wax - A natural wax obtained from the carnauba palm in Brazil. They have in modern times been replaced by synthetic waxes such as polyethylene waxes in floor finish formulations due to the more durable and more economical nature of these synthetics.

( Copernicia cerifera) The hardest natural wax known, this plant-derived emollient is found in our MosscaraTM.

The hardest natural wax exuded from the leaves of the carnauba palm used in floor finish formulas.

One of the primary ingredients of paste wax, which is often used on wood floors, this hard wax comes from the leaves of the wax palm plant.