CERARICA royal wax
[Plant-based wax: domestically produced]
Japan wax is a plant-based wax produced specifically in Japan that is obtained from the fruit of the Japanese oak tree. Our company's 200-year history has long supported traditional Japanese culture with products such as Japanese candles and stage makeup bases, and is now attracting attention from a new perspective among young Japanese people today, as well as being used as raw materials for the latest cosmetics. It is a pure Japanese life wax that connects the past and the future, and has developed with close history.
[Plant-based wax: produced overseas]
Sumac sap is the material used to make lacquerware, one of Japan's representative traditional crafts, but another valuable product of sumac is Chinese wax (urushi wax), which is extracted from the ``sumac fruit''.
[Plant-based wax: domestically produced]
Rice wax is a vegetable-based wax contained in the rice bran produced by milling rice, which is our staple food. It was created through joint research with a US oil manufacturer to expand the great potential of rice as a valuable domestic resource. It has extremely sharp melting properties and supports the convenience of our lives in unexpected ways, such as as a raw material for copy toner.
[Plant-based wax: produced overseas]
It is a vegetable wax secreted on the surface of sugarcane, a biomass resource that is attracting attention as a raw material for bioethanol.
[Plant-based wax: produced overseas]
This is an insect wax produced by refining the white wax secreted on tree branches by the Japanese warthorn insect as part of a JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) project. We named it ``Yukirou'' on the advice of a famous entomologist because it looks like snow on a tree branch.
[Plant-based wax: produced overseas]
It is a valuable wax that has been used throughout human history, which is rare among natural waxes. This wax was reborn in the world's No. 1 Beeswax Contest, and it is an insect wax that has been developed into new applications in high-tech fields such as compact discs and CDs through a project to use insects in the insect industry as an idea for making use of insects. For a long time, it has been used in things familiar to us, such as church candles and canelés.
[Plant-based wax: produced overseas]
A vegetable-based wax collected from the leaves of the Carnauba palm, which grows in northeastern Brazil in South America. Its gloss, toughness, hardness, and microcrystallinity are the best among vegetable waxes.
[Plant-based wax: produced overseas]
A natural plant-based wax extracted from the candelilla grass that grows in the desert regions of Mexico. Candelilla wax is used in lipsticks and chewing gums because it has excellent gloss, is resistant to temperature changes, and is hard to break. Furthermore, vegetable resins are also attracting attention as times change.