Vegan Sealing Wax Project

[Arachiroptera Corvax]

as proper vegan sealing wax (not the hot glue kind) seems non-existant i propose a collaborative effort to come up with a recipie anyone can use to make their own mail safe vegan sealing wax!

 

as far as i see it there are 3 necesary components a wax blend for bulk and flexibility, resin and dyestuff

 

as both a chandler and incence hobbiest i have attempted this on my own with limited sucess.

 

for resin i used colophony or pine resin a blend of soywax and palm stearin and parrafin based candle dye flakes

which seems to work well apart from proportions, flexibility and dye bleeding (i over saturated the mix(

any of the more chemistry inclined want to chime in, it would be great even for the non veggies to have an easy to make basic wax formula that anyone can tweak/ experiment with

[Tess]

As a vegan who knows nothing about sealing wax (had a brief love-affair with it in grade school but haven't touched it since) I'm afraid I will be of no help whatsoever to you!

 

Is it beeswax in sealing wax that makes it non-vegan? For some reason I thought more modern sealing waxes were plastic of some sort.

 

Hrm. Well, I'm watching closely, that's for sure, and if you get closer to recipes I'll definitely try to make them. That will give you the point of view of someone completely clueless. :roflmho:

[jjlax10]

I had the same question as Tess. I thought all modern sealing wax had no animal products. You should contact the Organics Studio people who have developed organic fountain pen ink.

[Arachiroptera Corvax]

beeswax, shellac and carmine (red colouring) are what concern me

i know that at least j herbin have beeswax and carmine in them although they use colophony (pine resin) along with shellac

Edited June 26, 2012 by Arachiroptera Corvax

[kiavonne]

You might want to check with veganmark who started this thread last year Just Made My First Vegan Sealing Wax Sample (vegan sealing wax) and see if he was successful. I never heard how it all turned out.

[bitterwonder]

While I do not use sealing wax I am delighted that you are doing this.

Thank you.