Therefore giving them a good polish is one way to elevate their look at minimal expense. Now my rental bathroom is nothing special, but seeing the viral wax hack ... I didn’t need to push ...

you need a chemical vehicle to carry the polish; volatiles mixed with the wax. Neither the volatiles nor the spray can are environmentally sound, and to top it off, you don't get much wax on the wood.

As well as car polish, carnauba is used in polishes for shoes, floors and furniture, and is often mixed with beeswax or turpentine. A key property of this wax is that it isn’t soluble with water ...