A vegetable wax harvested from the protective coating on the berry kernels of several varieties of the Haze tree. It contributes rigidity to the structure of cosmetic pencils.
This wax is used as an ingredient in furniture polish and floor waxes and comes from the fruit of the oriental sumac plant.
A soft wax with melting point of about 127°F obtained from a bush that grows in Japan. High Solids-Japan Wax Solvents Council Page 13 Technical Dictionary for Coatings
Vegetable fat from the fruit of a tree grown in Japan. Pale yellow, flat cakes and disks with fatlike rancid odor. Used as a substitute for beeswax in cosmetics.
Japan wax is a pale-yellow, waxy, water-insoluble solid with a gummy feel, obtained from the berries of certain sumacs native to Japan and China, such as Rhus verniciflua (Japanese sumac tree) and R. succedanea (Japanese wax tree).
