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- There is an error on the original recipe stated in this video, when I originally copied it down it was incorrect. The recipe calls for 1 ounce of Cocoa Butter, not 10 ounces as stated. I have been making this with too much cocoa butter. It did not negatively effect the wax, just smelled very chocolatey. Future batches I will just use the original and correct recipe from Medic317:
8oz yellow beeswax
3oz Shea Butter
1oz Cocoa Butter
1/4 Cup Coconut Oil
1/4 cup + 2 tsp Olive Oil
40 or so drops Peppermint Oil
Fix'n wax is a great protectant for wood, leather, steel. Great for bows and bow strings. Also works well for dry cracked hands, cuticles, and chapped lips. Make a batch with this recipe that smells like a hint of chocolate from the cocoa butter. Awesome stuff.
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There is an error on the original recipe stated in this video, when I originally copied it down it was incorrect. The recipe calls for 1 ounce of Cocoa Butter, not 10 ounces as stated. I have been making this with too much cocoa butter. It did not negatively effect the wax, just smelled very chocolatey. Future batches I will just use the original and correct recipe from Medic317:
8oz yellow beeswax
3oz Shea Butter
1oz Cocoa Butter
1/4 Cup Coconut Oil
1/4 cup + 2 tsp Olive Oil
40 or so drops Peppermint Oil
I kinda like chocolatey steel...chocolate Mora garberg...yeah that's the ticket😂
@@williamunderhill427 That's probably very true friend😂
@@williamunderhill427 ok...Just coverin de bases...can't be too careful nowadays...people might start eating up fixing wax and not need 8k rolls of TP after all right??😂😂
or for handy field use ... I clean out used glue stick's (like overgrown chap stick containers) & fill them
A wife is one of the most handy Bushcraft tools you can get!
Awesome.... Does she have a sister lol
I made a couple batches of Fixin Wax now, and I am sold. It really does work great for so many things. I have a huge beard and it's great for keeping its shape. While using it on my beard I started putting some on my face in places where it was aggravated, red, flaking skin... to the point my condition was embarrassing. It looked like I had a disease going on and it was around my nose and mustache. After applying for a week or so the redness was nearly gone and no more skin flakes. Today there is nothing there, skin looks great, my hands are soft and free of cracks... and these are working hands... 7 years ARMY and 10 years foundry life with some metal fabrication in between, these hands have been through it. Thanks Grey Beard!
Get your hands on an old muffin tin and use the cupcake papers to line it with, then tuck them in the freezer for an our and they drop right out (use the waxed papers) - I use an old aluminum tea kettle also for neatness in pouring and less spillage...
Blake Golder nice! Great additions
Blake Golder great suggestion re the muffin tin!
I was thinking a gravy laddel
Funnel works good but you have to work fast otherwise when it cools the output area will turn solid.
Makes excellent black powder bullet lube and gun protectant. The old time long hunters and mountain men used it as well.
Everytime I watch one of your videos it ends up costing me money. I looked for it on your store and you don't have it, so I had to buy all the ingredients to make my own. Very cool video. Thanks, Jim
Thanks for this video. Looks like a great balm! I will have to try this.
Looks like everyone is sharing their personal recipes, so here is mine:
Four parts beeswax
Three parts pine rosin
Two parts light or heavy mineral oil (for use on skin) or linseed oil---boiled or raw (for use on wood, metal, or canvas) or mink oil (for use on leather)
Melt the beeswax in a water bath, add in the pine rosin, stir in the (mineral, linseed, or mink) oil.
In any use of beeswax, I recommend carefully keeping it just at the melting point, around 150 to 155 deg. F..
Add a tidge more or less oil to adjust consistency to suit your desires.
Again, thanks for this video.
Just great! Thank you. Flutschi! I’ll try casting them with a wick in to be able to use them with a space blanket as a hypothermia kit. Nice! Always good to have a candle.
Nice video; adjustment for the Cocoa Butter noted. I make wax lubes for my lead alloy cast bullets. One suggestion regarding pouring the hot wax. Try a large turkey baster instead of handling a hot pot and pouring. I have a glass baster and a aluminum baster. Each one has its advantages. Again, thank you for your videos and thank you for your service to our country.
Good tip, I made a heck of a mess with this! The "garage kitchen" could have been its own blooper video
That Ranger Death Stare at the motorcycle cracked me up lmao
This is my favorite recipe, love this stuff, the peppermint is a good add. Thank you
I’ve been hunting for a (reliable) source for a recipe! Dave C mentions it a lot but I haven’t found an ingredients list. Thanks GB2! True American Hero.. 🇺🇸
The peppermint oil also deters mosquitoes. So an added level of protection from bug borne diseases.
that's cool...seems like good stuff with al those oils and waxes
I add black seed oil and tea tree oil to this recipe. It goes on everything including my face every night
Some of you don't hunt and the best tallow is from moose & elk fat . If you have a decent butcher shop close by , they can save a few pounds of beef or sheep kidney fat = tallow .
Thanks for your video and recipe Josh .
This was widely used back in the 18th Century here in the US. A 50/50 combination of just beeswax and rendered suet (kidney fat) . Saw the making of it on Jas Townsend and sons here on you tube. Another person on survival Russia made a similar product with the same 50/50 mix but added pine tar as a repellent. The fat trimmings off the hind end of wild hog or venison works well too if you first render it. Nice thing is you get some nice cracklins. Thanks.
This is almost the same recipe that I make for mustache wax, ha!
For most liquid concoctions, I use a turkey baster to transfer it to molds and containers. It's easy to control the pour flow, keeps hands away from getting burnt, and is the most precise way I've found. Clean up is easy too. Just another option for accomplishing the same goal. 👍
Good tip!
I do a bit of blacksmithing, and I use something similar to fixing wax (not quite edible though) to protect the forged steel, I add it to the finish product just when it is cool enough to to smoke, but not burn, this provides an excellent protectant and finish to the metal products. Thanks for the video. RLTW
I use to only use coconut oil... Will try this recipe. Cheers Josh 👍
For some reason this is my favourite video, sir. Superb information braided with good humor😂ATB🙏🏻🍀
This is very similar to a salve a girlfriend of mine once made - hers was just beeswax and olive oil though. I’m going to use this recipe though seems great!
I have to laugh because I’ve been watching videos on making home made lotions and they use the same ingredients, you just use less bees wax. Now I can make this also!!
fantastic video. Thanks for taking the time to share this method. Certainly a must for your gear. Has this been used on sealing tent seams?
Haven't tried that but I bet it would work
Great recipe. 50/50 beeswax coconut oil really covers it for leather and tools. The beeswax is the active ingredient. The lighter oil is to soften the wax. But the other ingredients are great too.
Good stuff. You might try beeswax with mineral oil for the same effect, but without the worry of your food oils going rancid.
"Look at that feather sticking, it's beautiful."😂
Haha I had forgot about that little joke in there.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret nothing but great content. Appreciate all the work.
D. That was my favourite moment too😂
You sure do have a Purdy smelling sheath. Great show as always GB
Great video! I had never heard of fix'n wax before, but it looks interesting... What I did was make a 50/50 mixture of organic food grade beeswax and organic raw linseed oil (not boiled linseed oil), and like they say in the Frank's RedHot commercials, "I put that s*** on everything!" Lol 😂
Thank's to you
Great video
Just subscribed Josh. Didn't know you had a channel until Shawn Kelly gave you a shout out. I'll keep an eye out for sure for your videos. 👍
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Outstanding
This sounds very familiar please something that we used when I was overseas, never did get the recipe though, I’m sure you know what I mean when I saying we were young and dumb, I love your recipe I’m going to be making it because I do a lot of Bushcrafting and over landing and I’m an avid bow hunter and crossbow, and I make leather sheaths also as well as The Kydex ones, when I make my own knives.
Thank you for your service, my dad was also GB and served in Korea and Vietnam, I am a Navy veteran myself, have a great day and God bless you and your family I am also subscribing to you for more things in the future.
Nice video. Would you do a video on pine tar soap? You mentioned in another video that you were going to make some.
I haven’t made any yet. Got sidetracked. Would be a cool video though.
Nice Dewey Rod
You mentioned the beeswax was cosmetic grade. While there are no real laws or guidelines that are required by the government for companies to grade their products in this fashion. Cosmetic grade is not usually the best quality. Therapeutic or food grade is a higher quality product. Cosmetic grade beeswax is often bleached to make it look better or more even color and then a "natural dye" added to make it look yellow or sometimes left white. Yours may not have been but many are. If you want one that is a higher quality look for food or therapeutic grade and organic. Otherwise they can contain pesticide/herbicides or other chemicals. Sometime chemicals are used to make it softer or melt faster. For most of what you mentioned the cosmetic would be ok but if you are going to use it on your skin or as lip balm etc. I still use food grade for everything I make, that way I don't have to worry about how I am going to use it. And the term "natural" is not a regulated term. Organic is a better label to look for when buying any wax or oils. I use many of the same ones in the skin care products or in salves I make.
So some of the most dangerous pesticides are organic.....thats just a lose descriptor of where the chemicals are originally derived
Lard works too, available at grocery stores.
Looking through your videos and found this gem Josh. Great video. I wonder if you could olive oil infused with something like plantain and yarrow to make it even more medicinal? I know it would be more firm than an actual balm, but could make it even more multi-purpose?
Probably could, yes.
If you don't want to make the recipe you can just source all natural boot wax. Typically beeswax and a carrier oil like coconut oil. Reference Obemaufs HD LP leather protector.
I understand that olives are a citrus and the oil is slightly acidic. If that is the case I don't want to use it on steel. What would be a good, reasonably priced substitute? Maybe canola oil?
7th Group,,outstanding!
I would add some vitamin e oil
just want to let you know you have audience in Sweden also. I will try this out.
Mats Sundelin awesome! Hope to make it to Sweden one day
I may have missed it though I watched it a few times. Are we dealing with dry or liquid oz? It seems to go back and forth. Beeswax by weight and shea/cocoa by volume etc...
What is the rough shelf life of this fix n wax?
hi. i can't see recipe in the description and i wonder, can i use it for my carbon steel opinel, which is my outdoor kitchen knife? is it safe with products?
I should probably update the description with the recipe! It’s starts at 2:54 in the video for quick reference. Nothing in this recipe is inedible, perfectly safe for your knife you use on food prep.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret thanks for response.
So I made this according to the written recipe and it was pretty hard. I couldn't easily scoop it out and apply it to my gear so I melted it back down and added 3oz of cocoa butter and 1oz of shea butter. That helped the hardness issue but it's still kinda sticky. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, do you have a solution? Thanks.
super genial lo haré también te parece hacer esas velas de duración 20 horas o o más que se pueda ?
Creo que si los hicieras lo suficientemente grandes, podrían durar tanto tiempo
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret gracias por la respuesta eso me aclara que las velas comerciales de pocas cantidad, pequeñas, que indican duración 120 horas con una llama y 36 con tres en la misma vela encendida como ejemplo la marca vela Nuwick son falsas!! claramente entre más cera mas tiempo durará... es qué pensé en tu preparación de cera de abeja, karite, coco, etc... podría utilizar un envase pequeño y crear la vela con un cordón acorde y que crear la mejor combinación para mas duración con menos tamaño.
@@pa-secas5630 No los he probado personalmente para decir realmente que sus afirmaciones son falsas, pero podrían serlo. Tendría que hacer una prueba de larga duración de rally en esos. 120 horas parece bastante improbable, pero no lo sé. Hay una empresa de velas llamada Two Ravens que hizo una vela de cera fija con una mecha de yute que ardía bastante bien, así que imagino que puedes hacer una vela casera todo el tiempo que quieras.
Lol, not a chef....you have access to the corporal dude. No excuse!
Love it.
FYI natural vegetable mineral oil is product left after lye and calcium carbonate soap process ok. I reserve petroleum jelly or mineral oil paraffin that are petroleum based formechanucals like shovel/ tool rust prevention zippers and door catch stuff Shea coconut etc for body
Hello there. Nice vid production. If I could make a small suggestion? After struggling with a 2 pound block of beeswax, I found that you can also get it in tiny crumbles or as it says on the package I have "pastilles". Liked the ultra light bugout bag video!
Good tip! Thanks!
Try a cheese grater. Just a thought from another gray beard that's always looking for a faster, easier way. Not lazy, its just that pretty much everything hurts nowadays.
Just poured my first batch. Didn't catch the comment below about the cocoa butter. Will correct for next time.
Could Ghee be used instead of Tallow?
Do you have any references for the origins of this? You state in the video that it dates back to the Egyptians. I'm curious simply for academic purposes. Thanks!
I don't have any additional references for it, sorry.
Hows the mixture feel on once used on the handle ?? Is it slick or tacky on the wood ?? Just curious ..
I wouldn’t really consider it slick or tacky, more like the difference between dry wood and green wood if you can picture that. It absorbs it pretty well
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Thank you Sir .
Probably wouldn't be a bad addition to the fire kit as well...
Funny you could mention that, this product is from a buddy of mine and his son. This video was from about a week ago: ua-cam.com/video/KobpVF7sEEA/v-deo.html
Can you use this as a waterproofing for wax canvas
I have never tried it as a full waterproofer but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Its all wax and oil
The only recipe from medic317 I could find lists 1oz of cocoa butter and you used 10oz is that an error and if so are you happy how this turned out after using it for awhile? Thanks
You are correct, it looks like I may have copied the original recipe down incorrectly. That would explain why my wax always smells so chocolatey, haha! Good news is that it didn't effect the wax otherwise, I have been using it for over a year now. I think my next batch I will definitely reduce it to 1 oz and give that a go.
I made a note of it in the description and pinned comment, good catch! Thanks!
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret No worries I just wanted to check before I made mine, it looks like a product that you can play with as far as amounts and ingredients. I am going to try and add some sweet almond oil to mine for it's benefits and some more flavour and smell for lotion and lip balm as my wife is interested in trying aswell, but otherwise same as this one. I just found your channel and subbed lots of great info and you are very natural infront of a camera look forward to going back through your videos.
@@SuperJayph awesome, enjoy it. Hope it turns out well. And welcome to the channel!
I tried this recipe but the wax and the oils did not mix. I left them on heat and stirred and stirred and stirred. They did not blend. Is that because of the materials or the brands of materials? Igot a puck of wax with a goo at the bottom of all the tins, no matter the size. What did i do wrong?
Neatfoot oil ...
Good recipe . Your wife is a great help sourcing out materials. She should start her own channel. She could call it " THE RED BR-AID " . Sounds catchier than Green Berets : ) Atb Paul
Nahhh she wont start a channel of her own, too many creepers on social media. Once in awhile I will have her on this channel so long as folks continue to respect her, she is behind the scenes and partnered for everything I do. Red Brrrrr-aid does sound catchy!
I understand. How unfortunate that the world is like that. I was more thinking of the name and her long red braid : ) Atb to both of you . I look forward to watching more of your videos. Looks like I have some catching up to do. Might learn something I cane use in my videos.
I was smelling what you were stepping in, I didn't mean you were one of the creepers haha. The Long Red Braid would blow up on social media, I am confident of that. She just isn't interested in blowing up for the wrong reasons and having 500,000 followers that aren't interested in what she is teaching. it is unfortunate, I see it every day. Its a shame, too. There are so many highly skilled and respectable females in this industry. Now, her teaching at physical classes alongside me, that is different.
Ha Ha I'm to high mileage to be a creeper. : ) But your right , so many females have a lot to offer in so many fields other than cooking etc. . It's a shame so many of us miss the opportunity to learn something from a different point of view just because of the rotten apples in the barrel.
I am teamed up with some outstanding ones over at Flint & Steel. Dr. Nicole Apelian, Kirsten Rechnitz, Cat Bigney. All outstanding instructors and very professional
I made some fixin wax minus the penny royal oil yesterday, was wondering how long it last thanks again
It should last indefinitely.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret thanks
I just made a batch tonight. The only thing I can think might happen is the olive oil getting rancid. But there’s such a high proportion of solid fats/waxes that it’s not likely to be noticeable.
The Shea has cinnaminic acids like e cassia etc from Bible that keeps from rancidity plus olive oil and sunflower NAmerican equivalent long shelf life and why used Nitrates cook out of bacon and lunch meat etc can use cooking oil gulf wax and all petroleum based better for mechanical and tools juniper in gin antioxidant in tart berries keep from going rancid FYI frankinscence and wiow etc have methylsalicylate aka aspirin for reducing fever dandruff pain/ inflammation
When I open a new stick of deodorant I save the plastic cover inside when empty I clean it out put the plastic cap back onto it flip upside down pull out the plug and refill with the wax . Works great
Josh Try Obenoufs
Will it burn too?
Yes, put a wick in it and it will act just like a candle
I bet you could slather this on your rib eye! :)
Also saedinia had olive tree blight issues and import companies can be thus listing but quality issues in olive oil overpaying low quality scandal Sunflower oil is equivalent to olive oil in properties and shelf stability. I coat or season my cast iron pans w grapeseed oil you could use in lotion too bc prevents hydrocarbons cooking heating like the vinegar marinade does
Sardinia been our main source olive oil
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This was costal NC near Camp Lejeune
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Your recipe is showing 1 ounce cocoa butter and in the video you confirmed it’s 10 ounces. Just to let you know so you can change it. Thanks for the recipe BTW, we are making some right now...
Am I the only one who's not seeing the recipe in the description?
Any chance you can Balance your microphone out? All your vids are L audio only. Your intro video is L&R audio, but your microphone, it's Left audio only. I'm new to your channel so if it's been brought up I'm sorry for the repeat! I love your videos! Keep up the great work! Thank you
All or some? I have heard about some of these older ones and have since upgraded my mic's. I appreciate the feedback, though. If all of them are like that I need to know.
I just went through all of them, and had L & R audio on every single one. Are you saying you can't hear any right audio or the right audio is lower than the left?
I’ve got the same here on my iPad. It’s all left sound. Right is just hissing sounds.
Your discrimination says 1oz cocoa butter. Did you say 10 oz ?
Sorry I didn’t read enough to see you corrected it. Sorry, I’m old.
See at 3:05 the look that said Asshole I am recording.
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You forgot beard wax
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No not "or they"! It's just him or her!
Him, her or they?
The wax sounds great...for home use...but I'd be a bit worried about using it in bear country. Or near mice....or porcupines. Have you run into any wildlife issues with this recipe?
I've read that bears do not like "pine oil" so that may be an option instead of peppermint. Most of my leather kit is treated with a wax/pine pitch blend. I'm not sure if that makes a difference, but I haven't been eaten by a bear yet.
I eat coconut oil, cocoa butter, and olive oil. So I'm guessing that bears do too. And I guarantee they eat beef tallow. Mice will pretty much eat anything. Bears can smell tasty things from far far away. A nice aromatic smell like cocoa butter should be detectable by a bear from a good dozen miles away if the wind is right.
I don't think it's been proven, but I suspect that if you dropped a few mice on Mars, they could smell almond oil on the South shore of Lake Ontario and all points further south. And don't think for a minute they wouldn't find a way back to planet Earth and that nicely oiled leather sheath and chew it up by the time you woke the next day.
For field protection of my axes, saws, and knives, I use a food grade mineral oil from the drug store. Just a drop or two. A small bottle will last ages. For first aid, I like plain ol' vaseline. (I betcha bears would try vaseline for breakfast, but I don't think the smell would be quite as attractive to them.) I use various potions for leather treatment at home, but don't bring any along to camp. Montana Pitch blend or Hubbard's Shoe grease do well for me. I have a special proprietary blend to treat my Kennetrek boots. Probably some silicone or something in that.
I once made a batch of stuff like your Fix'n wax as a beard wax. Fun little project, and my beard lay flatter, but I wouldn't wear it out into the woods.
I have never had an issue with it at all. I am in Black Bear country. I might reconsider it if I were in an area with Grizzly. I carry food in my pack that I would be more worried about
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Nice. I do live and camp in Grizzly country and tend to take bears seriously. Mice, too.
It’s really surprises me that he respected their pronouns