Use Beeswax to Condition and Polish Wooden Cutting Boards and Furniture [Clever Uses]

If you have a cutting board that's showing its age or wooden furniture that could use a little wax, beeswax is a cheap and surprisingly easy to obtain solution to conditioning or restoring cracked or aging wood cutting boards, chair legs, or butcher blocks.

Over at Re-Nest, they highlight a number of great household uses for beeswax, including things like fixing stuck or squeaky dresser drawers or whipping frayed rope, but applying a little to your cutting board can help fill in cracks and recondition the wood. Applying a little to dried-out wooden furniture may be a great way to breathe some new life into an old chair or bookshelf. You could even use it to recondition wooden floors. It's a soft, natural wax, so anywhere wax would work as a moistener or polish, beeswax is a good fix. Best of all, beeswax is cheap and easy to obtain?one of the commenters at Re-Nest notes that beeswax is available from Amazon for $1.99 for 5 1oz bars, so it's surprisingly cheap for how much you get, and has a number of other household uses.

Have you used beeswax around the house in the past? What was your experience with it? Let us know in the comments.

Photo by Thien Gretchen.

10 Household Uses for Beeswax | Re-Nest

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