Furniture Polish

This wood furniture is lovely. If you take care of it, it can be passed down for generations with lots of family yarns about you the original owner. But if your furniture has water rings or scratches, it needs real help. I have some dynamite techniques for wood furniture problems in a moment. First, how to make your good wood gleam. Here are some great recipes i collected during my reign as queen. You may want to avoid using large amounts of water on wood. It causes discoloration and even warping. What's great about these three furniture polish recipes is that you can make them with products that you may already have around the house. When you mix these, put them in clean, labeled glass or plastic containers. For the first recipe, you'll need one cup of mineral oil, and you're going to put in about three drops of lemon oil. You'll mix that up and put it in the container and shake before each use. For the next one, we're going to use about two ounces of grated beeswax and five ounces of turpentine. Now you'll find the beeswax at the drug store. You'll cover that with the turpentine, and then make sure you put this one in a clean glass container. And for our very last polish, we're going to take one cup of olive oil and one-quarter cup of white vinegar. We'll mix that together and put it into a spray bottle. There we go. And you know, if you get hungry while cleaning, you can always put it on your salad. Now let's see how it works. Now that we've made all of our great furniture polishes, let's take a look at how they should be used, and how they work. This is our vinegar and oil polish. We're gonna take a soft cloth and spray it onto the cloth. It's a good idea not to spray directly onto the furniture. Spray it on well... Work it in. Then you're gonna start and put it on working with the grain. And right away you can see the luster come to the wood, and what a beautiful shine it gives it. Now if the wood looks really dry, give it a little time. Let it sit, and go over it a second time with it. The olive oil actually nourishes the wood while the vinegar cleans it. It will keep it from drying out, and your wood will always be beautiful. Now if you have little detail work, like we have right here, you wanna use your cloth, again, work it in really well, and then using a soft bristle brush, go back and work it into the grooves nicely. And then again, come with your soft cloth and buff it really well. When you're done, you're gonna have a beautiful piece of furniture that will last for years.