Question about waxes

[MrsHearnie]

Wrking on my body butter recipes & have read on a few websites that all natural whipped body butters will melt in summer.

I'm in Australia & lots of areas over here get VERY hot over summer (well over body temp, which is the melting point of lots of butters)

if I add some beeswax to my recipes, will this act to increase the melting point & therefor creating a butter much less likely to melt on a bench in a home in summer?

Thanks so much for any advice

Bel

 

[lauramw71]

It probably would up the melt point, but it also might make it more draggy when applied to the skin. I just don't make the whipped butter in the summer months. Just too hard to try to figure out how to make it so it won't melt.

 

[carebear]

even with beeswax, it'll melt in the summer. tis the nature of a body butter. If you look at the components and their melting points you will see that unless you make it super high in BW (way past the point of acceptability) it's gonna melt.

For example:

cocoa butter - MP ~ 95F/35C
shea butter - ~ 90F/32C