With dry, cracked skin running rampant in the cold-weather months, investing in one of the best paraffin wax baths is an effective way to correct dryness in the hands, feet and elbows and create ...

Paraffin wax is a colorless, soft wax that can provide therapeutic heat therapy for the hands and feet. It also has softening and moisturizing effects on the skin. As with other waxes, paraffin wax ...

When it comes to candles, you probably use them to add a nice fragrance to your home, and maybe keep them on standby in case ...

IN his paper read before the Institution of Petroleum Technologists on December 11, 1934, on the “Utilization of Paraffin Wax and Petroleum Ceresin”, Mr. P. G. Higgs outlined the history of petroleum ...

AMES, Iowa – Petroleum-based paraffin wax commonly coats cardboard and all sorts of other products to improve durability and water resistance, but it can’t be recycled and may adversely affect human ...

Tong Wang, an Iowa State professor of food science and human nutrition, has developed new industrial uses for soybean oil, in the form of wax. Wang’s development of soybean oil wax would replace a ...