Hate to argue with Kingshott, but I'm a wax guy.
Oil is just as good, maybe better. But an open damp container of any 
kind of oil?
In my shop?
Its either going to get knocked onto the floor all the time,
  or "skin over" with a heavy crust of regular gray household dust.

  A little piece of paraffin I can lose easy enough, so I just break up 
a standard slab and spread it around in the places I am likely to look, 
whenever I can't find any.
   I keep a couple of backup boxes from yard sales, on the shelf.

  Candles would be just as good, but they don't store so compactly as a 
box of paraffin.

Candles I usually just drop into an old steel coffee can to melt for 
sealing fresh wood I am going to try and cure. Either that or waxing 
concrete molds.
    yours Scott

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