Can a homemade sugar wax be used in a wax warmer for reheating?
No commentsYes! Absolutely. Sugar-based wax is able to be rinsed off with warm water. If you’re worried about it burning and caking onto your warmer, there’s no need. When homemade sugar wax is made, it is boiled in a pan at temperatures much higher than what can be put out by your wax warmer. Even when [...]
Heating Things Up: La Grande Melting Pot, a Wax Warmer
1 comment so farSo as you all probably know from my CacheBeauty Amazon saga I finally recieved my (working) La Grande wax warmer! I was looking for a warmer that was affordable, yet had the capability of heating loose wax instead of a container since I make my own. At first I looked at another product [...]
An Ode to Customer Service: CacheBeauty (Revisited)
No commentsIn a previous blog entry, I told the unfortunate tale of the wax warmer that I bought off of Amazon from CacheBeauty. When I got it in the mail, it was broken and I called their toll-free number. The woman on the phone told me they would send another warmer out with a shipping label [...]
Homemade Wax Cubes
No commentsWhy spend $10 for a 14 oz. container of wax that (at most) will wax your legs two to three times? There’s a simple homemade recipe that can produce gallons of wax at the same cost.
This recipe can be found on hundreds of places online, but only here on TinkerBot will you find an accompanying [...]
A Sticky Situation: Part 1
1 comment so farMy first large-scale series of experiments for TinkerBot are aimed towards finding the best (and cheapest) method of leg waxing. Most women (and some guys… including my queer boyfriend) know what a pain in the ass it is to shave their legs, but few realize the cost. Between my mother and I, we [...]
