Any ideas to stop drawers in an antique chest from sticking ?

I have used wax and rubbed a candle on the sliding mechanism.

Rub some coconut oil on the metal slider

I brought a bottle of Drawer and Window Glide Lubricant on Amazon and it works great. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IKV1TK6/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hand soap works very well along with the candle wax. They don't dry out as fast as other methods. The drawer glide stuff sounds good too.

Talcum powder. It works on squeaky wood floorboards as well. If this doesn't work find a piece of wood or metal the same size as the groove in your drawer glude and wrap with sandpaper and give it a few passes - also pull out allbyour drawers and checkvall the screws and that the joints are tight. If they have wiggled gloose over time the shift of the wood can make drawers stick from being off square. Make sure they all slide well and add talcum powder to the glides. ( this absorbs moisture which when put under pressure from being crooked will cause the moist wood to rub together and make a squeak from the two surfaces not sliding smooth.)

Rub bar soap on the runners. Works every time

A bit of WD40 works as well

An old beeswax candle.

I haven't done it in years but I always used wax. Candles would probably work, but I got mine at the grocery store near the canning supplies. Remember when we used wax on top of our home made jelly? And nobody ever got sick. Does anybody still do that? Gosh my mind can see those boxes now. And did they have ESSO or Shell on them, like the gas?

Candle wax - soap - WD-40 -Polish any of them will do the trick for you.

Rub a candle on the bottom edges of the drawers.

My mom always used candle wax!

Hi Syl: You can use several things, like rubbing it with soap or a wax candle. One thing I'd do is to rub a piece of chalk on the drawer top edge, open and close it a few times to see where the chalk is rubbing off and then sand that area down until the chalk doesn't rub off any more :)

Candle wax will fix that.

Use Ivory soap or candle wax on the edges.

Hi Syl! Rub the drawer frame — the spots where the drawer glides into the frame — with candle wax, paraffin, or even an old bar of soap to give it a little extra glide. You can also spray them with a product such ad WD-40.