SWIX BASE BURN POWDER
Sprinkle some of this ultrahard powder wax on your base (or at least along both edges) just before hotwaxing with your wax of the day...then iron both waxes in together. It helps protect the base in very cold and abrasive (icy, manmade, frozen spring) snow against base burn and can help increase wax durability. Use the hydrocarbon powder for temperatures -26* to 12*F (-32* to -12*C)...and the lo-fluoro powder for -25* to 14*F (-32* to -10*C).
EXTREME COLD WAXES
Very coarse snow crystals, manmade snow and ice are especially abrasive and strip wax from bases quickly, which can create base “burn”...an oxidizing process that seals p-tex and diminishes its ability to absorb future wax. Extreme cold wax powders are made primarily of hard synthetic paraffins to combat this. It’s sprinkled on bases...or at least along edges where base burn risk is greatest...before dripping your
hydrocarbon wax choice of the day over it. The two are then melted in together. They are offered by most major wax companies.