Samples were prepared firstly by heating soybean oil up to 80 °C under stirring and sugarcane or candelilla solid wax was slowly added (0.5, 1, 2, 3 and 4% w/w) and mixed up to its complete dissolution. After complete dissolution, the mixture was kept under agitation without heating for 3 min. The samples were stored at 20 °C for 24 h to form gel and kept at this temperature up to perform the analyses.