Linseed oil is a rather soft and flexible polymer until its exposed to UV and breaks down, where it hardens and cracks visible by it turning yellow, Bees wax is UV resistant.
Adding the bees wax could keep the Linseed from becoming brittle due to UV exposure.
Just speculation on why people may find it works when mixed.
Were the items you saw ruined by cracking exposed to large amounts of sun?
Adding the bees wax could keep the Linseed from becoming brittle due to UV exposure.
Just speculation on why people may find it works when mixed.
Were the items you saw ruined by cracking exposed to large amounts of sun?
I would strongly recommend against using boiled linseed oil, or any other drying oil for that matter. It's curing the whole time it's in the leather, and subsequent coats just compound a potential disaster. But to each their own.