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joshrobs
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 Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:17 pm Post subject: Anyone use osmo polyx floor oil inside a hive? |
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Hi, I was looking at the various options for treating the inside of the hive (shellac+propolis in alcohol, scorch with beeswax), and I realized I have some osmo polyx floor oil left over from a job. Has anyone tried it inside a hive? It's supposedly food-grade and approved for kids toys in Germany. It stinks like white spirit when you apply it but the smell goes real fast (a couple days)... I'll likely be leave the hive lying about for 8 months before swarms might start so that's plenty of time to off gas.
FWIW it says it's made of "Solid ingredients: Based on natural vegetable oils and waxes (sunflower-oil, soybean-oil, thistle-oil, carnauba wax, candelilla wax), silica, siccatives (drying agents). Naphtha (petroleum), hydrotreated heavy (disaromatized, benzenefree)" I've the natural (uncoloured) version. |
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