Wooden cutting board maintenance: beeswax?

Most people agree on the basics of maintaining wooden cutting boards: frequently (at least weekly) oil the board. With edible synthetic oil.

Where the instructions differ is on the use of beeswax. Sometimes it is adviced to use a bit of beeswax, dissolved in the oil, sometimes not.

So I wondered: is it useful to add a bit of beeswax to the oil? And, if so, what is the use of beeswax in addition to the oil?

Beeswax adds some water repellency to the board.

Stealing Penascola's proprietary recipe for wax/oil blend - my board was reborn. It is much better than pure oil.

After spraying some water with a dispenser after waxing - you could see hundred small drops. The protective layer created that way is strongly hydrophobic.

Lizzardborn said:

Stealing Penascola's proprietary recipe for wax/oil blend - my board was reborn. It is much better than pure oil.

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Could you share that with us? The recipe I've got is 4 parts oil to 1 part beeswax. Dissolve au-baun-marie or in the microwave.

http://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/showthread.php/4372-First-Board!?p=272016&viewfull=1#post272016

Same. Yeah on water bath, but maximize wax's surface area somehow (it is hard to clean from knife though, so cutting may be not optimal). Also give it enough time to cool - in half an hour the jar will be all white, but inside is still liquid.