AURO-The-Natural-Choice-for-daily-Life-04.2019

tember through March, six to eight leaves are cut off the palm and laid out to dry and shrink which loosens the wax particles. Afterwards, the wax parts are knocked off or removed with a machine. The presorting of the leaves going by age predetermines the different colour grades of the wax. The older the leaves, the darker is the wax that is won from them. The leaves are either dried and knocked off right at the place of harvest or they are dampened and brought to a factory for processing. A carnauba palm pro- duces only 150 to 180 g of wax per year which amounts to 5 g wax yield from 100 g leave material. In Europe, the wax gets cleaned and bleached in special procedures to produce a carnauba wax free from dirt and water. At AURO, we use the carnauba wax in cleaning, care and maintenance products. Due to its particular hardness, it lends much better mechanical resilience to softer waxes and provides a beautiful lustre to furniture or floors. ORIGIN: BRAZIL By the way: Carnauba palms are particularly resistant against environmental influences. The leaves grow again constantly so that a permanent winning of wax is ensured. The palms do not suffer from the harvesting of the wax which is why this is a really sustainable and ecologically compatible production of raw material. 53