I have always used paraffin wax to make my waxed dirt.

My question is this. Does anyone use the soy wax for making waxed dirt ?

If anyone does use it, do you notice any differences between it and paraffin wax ?

Does it have any smell after it has cooled and absorbed into the dirt ?

I'm asking because I can get soy wax in town from the gal that owns the candle shop.

Yes I'm being a tight arse and not wanting to pay a bunch of shipping if I can get something that works equally well for a 10 minute drive to town.

Can't imagine it's not worth a shot. For what it's worth, cheapest I've found wax is the beaded stuff at Hobby Lobby. It's usually on sale and it's already "shredded" so I think it's a no brainer vs stuff you'd buy online.

I got some from Gerald Schmitt - it came in cardboard barrels. It was cheap even with the shipping - comes in beads and melts well

Ok I will probably take an on-line beating for this, but oh well. You guys give coyotes way too much credit in terms of why they avoid your sets or dig your sets, etcc. If a coyote ran away from, dug up, whatever negative response you want to have them exhibit add that here they would starve to death. There are more people on this Earth than there have ever been. Coyotes smell people and their stuff all day, every day. Guys used to say in the Wilderness the coyote has never smelled a human, well guess what 99.999999% of us are NOT trapping coyotes in the Wilderness. Coyote populations are likely at all-time highs since this country was settled. If you are concerned about how the wax smells leave your waxed dirt outside uncovered where it can absorb "natural" odors. Do you think the smell of wax that has absorbed whatever it is touching once it is in the ground or melted into soil is more offensive than the human scent you leave behind? Because no matter what you do you are leaving human scent behind when you set that trap.

I agree with you 100% about coyotes smelling humans.

I've never used soy wax before. Didn't know if it had different characteristics where it didn't have the same waterproofing qualities as paraffin, had a different odor that animals would avoid or dig up. Figured I would ask the experts.

Don't use soy wax for making wax dirt. Got a smell that the animal want to dig and eat .

I've often wondered if human scent left behind was such a big deal then why does everyone kneel in front of the trap where the yote is going to approach from and 100% be sniffing at instead of kneeling behind and reaching over say the backing to set the trap for an unscented approach. Lots of yotes get caught though so I guess that's a good example of over thinking it. Depending on how wise the yote is to trapping I imagine comes into play too. Contaminated traps being dug up is a thing, not imaginary though right? Same with when were trying to figure out why one just wont commit to a set. Tracks up to and leaving. That happens too. There is a lot to it. Just b/c a yote is used to smelling humans and isn't in the complete wilderness doesn't mean that they are all willing to accept a foul smelling trap hidden beneath loose dirt. Its not that they are scared of the human scent, its that the human scent tells them its there for further inspection. I don't know its not 100% either way, so there really isn't a 100% answer one way or the other either, but the situation seems more complex than just writing it off.

Problem is someone could go prove us wrong by catching a young yote with a stinky setup.

On the other hand someone else could also go show us their educated yote dig up a trap.

So the battle continues.

For what its worth Ive heard them say mice like that car insulation stuff chew it and bed in it b/c its soy base.

Mice also like vehicle wiring insulation for the same reason, soy based.

I think OP had a good cheap source for the wax and was wondering about its performance, not that he was seeking it out specifically. Your points are all good though.