RE: [TCML] phillips question about wax and more

[Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>]

You may be right. Perhaps this was just and old wives tale. I'm remembering back several decades, but I thought they were fairly hard to the touch. I don't remember them being stickey or gooey, though I don't doubt they're using the cheapest material possible now. I used to have to soak them in warm water to soften them up before using.

Adam

--- On Wed, 6/11/08, Lau, Gary <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I have doubts that toilet rings are beeswax.  I've seen
> and held beeswax candles, and they don't remotely
> resemble the soft, gooey, sticky stuff that toilet rings
> are made of.  I strongly suspect that some synthetic blend,
> much cheaper than beeswax, is used for toilet rings.
> 


      
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