MODIFICATION OF FORMULATIONS OF WAX POLISHES, LACQUER, RUST PREVENTIVE, RUBBING COMPOUND BY REPLACING LOW COST MATERIAL WITHOUT COMPROMISING ON PROPERTIES AND INTRODUCTION OF WAXES IN INCENSE STICKS FORMULATION

The market of wax polishes, Lacquer, Rust Preventive, Rubbing Compound and incense sticks are growing at very fast rate. The demand of decorative products for interior designing and also for making wood articles is growing day by day. The competition in the market is growing and to sustain the businesses low cost alternative raw material is on growing demand. In case of incense sticks lasting fragrance is required and also the burning rate has to be slow. To deals with this problem we have introduced wax in the Incense sticks formulations to reduce the loss on evaporation. In our experiments we have studied different waxes for their properties by conventional methods and sophisticated methods like GC, FTIR & DSC and compared the properties of different waxes used in the wax polish industries and modified their formulations for cost effectiveness without hampering their properties. The formulation prepared was compared with traditional formulations for evaluation purpose. The incense sticks are made by two methods one is by dipping the raw agarbatti sticks in fragrance compound and other is by adding the fragrance compound in the masala or incense paste and rolled on the bamboo stick by hand or machine and dried for 2 days and packed. The problems relating to the latter method i.e. adding fragrance compound in the masala was that when the incense sticks are kept for drying the ingredients in fragrance compound which has high evaporation rate gets evaporated hence reduces the smell on the incense sticks. The above problem has been solved by adding the Wax in the formulation.