Paste Wax For Hardwood Floors. Hardwood floor wax doesn't contain silicone, lemon oil, ammonia, bleach, vinegar or tung oil because those ingredients can damage, stain and discolor natural hardwood flooring. Apply a small clump of paste wax with a cheesecloth or a white terrycloth rag and rub the compound into the floor.
How to make hardwood floors shine without damaging them! Applying paste wax to natural wood flooring. It should only be used on untreated hardwood floors.
We have bruce hardwood floors with a very rustic look.
Wax, shellac and varnish finishes will come up, but polyurethane won't. However, if it gets on your hardwood floor, don't. In most households, wood floors should be cleaned at least four to six times a year. Available as oil based or water based stain formulations.