I must be the Grinch here. I don't like bees wax. I think it makes the thread gummy and the thread grabs and is more difficult to pull through the fabric. What I do instead is take a little piece of a fabric softener sheet and drag the thread through that. Makes the thread go through the fabric slick as a whistle!. Just don't put the needle through the fabric softener sheet, it will be so slick you can't hold on to it.