PrimDawg
Active Member
So much fun. My girlfriend and I are learning this together for fun. We made a couple of batches for experience mostly. Basically equal parts beeswax, coconut oil and shea butter with a bit of fragrance oil.
Overall pretty pleased but have a few questions. The bars are fine for moisturizing but a bit "melty". I would like to make these more solid, so they will hold up in the shower.
First question, I used beeswax, but also have ewax. Is one better for creating a harder bar?
I'm thinking of upping the wax to more like 50%. Should I then take the butter and oil to 25% each?
Is there a butter that will end up harder, like maybe cocoa butter?
Anyway, just want to thank everyone for getting me this far, we had a blast.
Overall pretty pleased but have a few questions. The bars are fine for moisturizing but a bit "melty". I would like to make these more solid, so they will hold up in the shower.
First question, I used beeswax, but also have ewax. Is one better for creating a harder bar?
I'm thinking of upping the wax to more like 50%. Should I then take the butter and oil to 25% each?
Is there a butter that will end up harder, like maybe cocoa butter?
Anyway, just want to thank everyone for getting me this far, we had a blast.
