The use of the wax saponifiée in for advantage to use in cold a sociable disposition which obliges to paint in warmth. The wax is a sociable disposition used since by millenniums and by all the civilizations. She(it) is sensitive to the differences of temperature and to the water, that is why the idea of addition of a glue in given birth to the paintings and skate of wax said " ceracolla "

The caseïne is a "nervous" glue; she(it) is softened by the wax; the wax is congealed by the glue. The balance in fact a more stable matiére.

Other sociable dispositions can be used: the linseed oil, the animal glues, the resins and the natural gums, the acrylic resins.

Them skate in the wax were formerly used for their matt softness of face, letting appear some brilliancies of three quarter and of profile, giving a natural protection which is that of the wax.