Description
I'm excited to present a new class of natural materials, with a wide range of uses, from incense making, soap making, solid perfumes, to straight up incense use: Conifer Waxes. What is it?! For those experienced with natural materials, it's basically all the non alcohol soluble molecules in the Conifer Concrete . They're produced from the needles & twigs of the tree & not the resin, so the scent is very close to the actual tree scent & not the resin, which is a different scent profile. Let's take a closer look at this class of materials. The Perfumery World revolves mostly around alcohol based perfumes, therefore the interest is mostly in all the molecules that would be soluble in alcohol.To get there , a natural material would be extracted in a solvent , creating what's called a Concrete , which most of the time is a thick paste, extremely fragrant. From there the Concrete would be washed with alcohol, then separated & the alcohol evaporated , to extract just what's soluble in alcohol. This is called an Absolute . What's left behind is everything else that was NOT soluble in alcohol , still very fragrant , & depending on what kind of plant material was used , will look & behave differently, for example the Flower Waxes will be a very waxy, velvety substance, the Conifer Waxes will vary in how hard they are depending on the type of evergreen trees was extracted from. While the floral waxes have been around for awhile , the Conifer Waxes, from my knowledge are not well known or used. Let's talk about them.. They're very fragrant, they easily melt when heated up, & have found out from my experiments that are oil soluble , I made a 20% dilution in oil, & it stayed in solution once melted, which means they didn't separated from the oil, didn't settle at the bottom once it cooled down, even after several days . The applications for this class of materials are countless, can be used in solid perfumes, incense making , used as incense burning, & right now I'm experimenting using them in soap making, with very encouraging results. One of the advantages , in natural soap making , is that the scented molecules are not volatile like the essential oils ,plus the scent profile is much closer to the actual tree scent, than the sometimes sharp scented essential oils... On the other hand, the Waxes will color your soap , which can be an advantage or disadvantage, depending on what you're looking for in your end product. I also have available , all from Canada : Black Spruce Wax (Picea Mariana) https://www.etsy.com/listing/1095433666 Fir Balsam Wax ( Abies Balsamea ) https://www.etsy.com/listing/1095411762 Cedar Thuja Wax (Thuja Occidentalis) https://www.etsy.com/listing/1173017720 White Spruce Wax (Picea Glauca) https://www.etsy.com/listing/1189034691 The new batch of Blue Hemlock Wax is harder than before , harder than what's shown in the photos , now is the same hardness as the other waxes. International Buyers - Please Note: Import duties, taxes, & charges
