Making Beeswax Hand Creams 

Good result from Body cream 1 oz beeswax to 8 oz grapeseed oil, 10 capsules of vitamin E.

So nice of you

Yes! Much better... but even this recipe is a quality product.

Thanks I will do in the Fall

So many things to make!

Thanks

My first batches with just olive oil came out green! (before I new much about oils) that put me off so I cut it wil veg oil and liked the results. Having said that I plan to up my game.

yes

Hello there!

For my fairly basic quality labeling I print all my own.

Maybe you pot leaks? or boiling too vigorously?

Not a chemist but sounds logical

@@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer I’m just a outdoorsman and looking in to making some natural hand creams, I looked in to this and it seems to have a high content of vitamin e. As I been watching quite a few of your videos I though I best ask you for your opinion. Thanks

For any cosmetic I would use the cleanest wax I can I don't think that "virgin" beeswax is a defined grade but I may be mistaken.

You think the virgin wax they asked about is just capping wax. Wasn’t ever brood frame wax?

No necessary always open to suggestions.

wd make it sticky i wd think, plus u wd attract every bee for miles ....

Beeswax is hard when it is cold could be that what you had seen before/recall as soft wax was not in fact pure and had been cut with oils????

Good idea.

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Good question! It certainly becomes brittle but I don't know if this can be reversed.

Moisturising creams don't really add moisture, they stop moisture from leaving the skin by replacing skin oils that are not being made for some metabolic reason, dehydration of the body or are being stripped away more quickly than the body can replace them. Sebum (body oil) production naturally wains in winter becasue it is produced with sweat. Sweat production is generally modulated by ambient temperature. Winter, people generally sweat less. Drying of skin increases. Also cold air holds less moisture and humidity can be much lower. So evaporation from the skin can be quite high (especially in dry heated houses). Washing natural skin oils away in summer can do the same thing ofcourse. Solvents like water or oils can strip sebum away (handling fuel oils, engine oils or even petting oily animals or frequent washing of the skin). Drying soaps and detergents based on oxalic acids and the like (coconut oils or lab made fats in washing powers etc...) are particularly effective at solubilising our natural oils and washing them away. Any water in skin moisturiser formulations quickly evapourates from the skin leaving the fats and the various actives behind. The fats create a barrier that stops moisture leaving the skin (or wounds). The body can then more effectively maintain the required water concentration for effective healing or immunity. Dry skin as we experience it is partly an immune function. These creams stop excessive slothing off of skin (dry skin) which is a natural upregulation of skin turnover to stop infection. This organ uses this if it can't maintain moisture levels or if it is irreparably damaged (burns, UV or otherwise). For wound healing, the skin must work to maintain an abnormally high water concentration (edema or inflammation). The concentration affects the movement of immune cells, waste and repair processes. So slowing down moisture loss by applying a hydrophobic barrier (fats/hydrocarbons/oils) is an effective way of giving our biology an easier time. But it is our biology that is doing the lions share of the work. Genius biology really. We can only hope to give it a helping hand. If it fails completely, none of these creams will work. This is what happens with rampant infections (bacterial, fungal or viral notmally), exema or autoimmune stuff.

A clear oil or wax contains hardly any water. Karl fischer analysis for water in oil in a clear, bright oil of good purity frequently comes back at

Thanks for explaining so well the functioning of chemical and biological processes । I am not an industrial chemist or a biologist but , your descriptions are appealing। Tnanks ​@@browpetj

Ok next time

appart from keeping it warm or adding sole other solvent I dont think so

For the hand cream, 2oz

@@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer Thank you. I'm looking forward to your online class at Ellsworth Adult Ed.

Thanks.

I think it was an oil based coconut essence to make it smell nice.

2oz

Yes both are great.

I order from betterbee

I do not know

Betterbee

I change as I learn.

Vegetable oil is an amazing moisturizer. You can use expensive virgin olive oil and end up with a “crappy” hand cream, because of the chemistry between the triglycerides in virgin olive oil and vegetable oil are different. So, vegetable oil is the better option- chemically speaking. BTW, I make soaps, lip balm, shampoo bars, candles, and kitchen cleaning products. All of my products are made with math and chemistry before the “marketing” is considered.

@@thisismyname7284 - Why is Vegetable Oil better than Almond Oil…?

Looking at the longevity of oils it looks like almond is very quick to spoil, you'd be better off using canola or olive oil.

​@@thisismyname7284except vegetable oil really isn't that great. Better alternatives that don't spoil easily would be coconut oil and lard. A small portion of beef tallow could be used, but tallow spoils or rancidifies faster. And that's just the "cheap" natural oils. There's also coco butter, Shae butter, palm kernel oil, emu oil, etc.

next time

what else would you suggest

​@nonimammatt4310 olive oil or coconut oil is better alternative

​@@nonimammatt4310 I would suggest using oils naturally high in vitamin E, C or A and other good properties... Would make it so you don't need to use those vitamin E capsules

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Maybe this year.

how much profit?

I do not know.