God be with you if you have one solid chunk of beeswax. I once had a brick to shred. My newly purchased cheese grater lasted all of one time.
I always buy my unrefined beeswax from a local raw honey producer, in very large blocks. Shredding beeswax is a nightmare in more ways than one, which I will never willingly repeat.
My way around the shredding is: crack the honker into rough chunks - or buy rough chunks if you can - melt the entire thing down in a double boiler, then pour into ice cube trays or silicone molds with small cavities. Allow to harden & throw all the little cubes into a paper bag or jar. It doesn't take that long & I only have to do this once every year & a half or so.
This also means that each 'cube' is very close to the same weight, which also adds to the ease of working with natural, unrefined beeswax that has been portioned in honking bricks. The small cubes are also much easier to split into smaller chunks when need be for more precise weighing.
Idk and idc why people mixed beeswax with oil and called it lotion ijs it's annoying.
THIS....I swore I would never call my 'lotion bars' lotion bars
and don't.
Mine are uniquely referred to, which I will keep to myself as it differentiates my products from all of the others stuff I see sold as 'lotion bars'. That ain't no lotion, son!
It seems to me that it would kind of undermine the purpose of lotion bars - which is that you don't need all those extra ingredients - emulsifiers, stabilisers etc, and lotion bars are usually a simple three or four oil mix of natural butters, oils and waxes.
Oh you would love my 'lotion bars'....mine contain butters, oils & waxes, but they also have at least 13 ingredients, off the top of my head
although no stabilizers or other junk. Beeswax definitely acts as an 'emulsifier' in solid products like this. My ingredients list is lengthy because I use a combination of plant infused oils which are amazing on the skin, making my product very unique & highly effective for those dealing with dry skin, sun burns, eczema, psoriasis etc. My testers are very happy with the blend, so I have already made a large batch so all of the ingredients can fully meld over the next few weeks. The smell of the unrefined cocoa butter is sweet, almost honey-like. So beautiful
whether it would actually work or not, I guess it probably could. Is the base liquid or solid?
That definitely sounds like a liquid / cream to me, which I would say absolutely would not work for 'lotion bars'. The amount of beeswax / any wax or butters needed to solidify that combination of ingredients would be so much that it would feel like getting waxed, and never having the wax removed
I doubt it's even possible to solidify that base based on the blend of ingredients.