Often paraffin is mixed with other types of waxes like beeswax or vegetable wax.

The major ingredient is carnauba, a vegetable wax extracted from leaves of a palm found in the Brazilian rain forest.

Vegetable wax tend to have lower melting points than paraffin candles (which come from the purification of fossil fuels).

Bayberry wax is an aromatic green vegetable wax.

Castor wax, also called hydrogenated castor oil, is a hard, brittle, vegetable wax.

The first, which is the cinnamon oil, is more properly a kind of vegetable wax, being of the consistence of stearine.

Some waxes, like beeswax, carnauba (a vegetable wax), and paraffin (a petroleum wax) occur naturally.

Rice bran wax is the vegetable wax extracted from the bran oil of rice (Oryza sativa).

Historically, in the municipality people made pots, tortillas pans, yellow scented candles from vegetable wax, balls of string, hammocks, mortars and pestles, lead-tipped fishing nets, woven mats, and sugar cane mills.

Here, trade was also in tea initially, but soon expanded with the first burgeoning of Japanese industry to include shipping, coal, munitions and even to exports of seaweed, shark fins and vegetable wax, all important items of trade at that time.

Emulsifying wax is created when a wax material (either a vegetable wax of some kind or a petroleum-based wax) is treated with a detergent (typically sodium dodecyl sulfate or polysorbates) to cause it to make oil and water bind together into a smooth emulsion.