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Pine is not a very hard wood. Heart pine is. It's from longleaf pine, which comes in just below oak on the hardness scale. The problem is that Carnauba wax is soft It's softer than polyurethane, but everything I've been able to find says that it's the hardest natural wax around. In...

I have been very stubborn in avoiding chemicals as much as possible. I just laid down a heart pine floor in my kitchen and utility room. I chose to go with wood because the house is 85 years old, and the floor is uneven. And I managed to find a source for heart pine, to replace the heart pine...