Not sure, but I believe bottle sealing wax is/was carnauba, but cheese wax wasn't. I would think pure carnauba wax would be way too hard for good lube and may be hard to keep in the grooves. I have used Maker's Mark sealing wax and it was very hard and had to be mixed with a lot of bees wax(but no so bad after I used some of the contents of the bottle...).