What kind of beewax using for lip balm?

[hobbiz]

My suppliers provide white beeswax beads and raw yellow beeswax block (picture). In all lip balm recipe I found, white beeswax beads are used but it is hard to find lip balm tutorial made by raw beeswax block 8) . Is there any difference between them?

 

[artisan soaps]

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[pixybratt]

one of the biggest differences is that white is cleaned and bleached in some way. some sun bleach other are chemical bleached. Yellow often comes with a little note saying you may find bee bits in it.
so it's totally up to you and what you want to use.

 

[IanT]

also think of how easy it is to use... your going to need a sledgehammer to break that block up ... or powersaw... lol i know from experience... it takes soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOoOooO long too melt down too... i like working with the wax beads now...way easier..

 

[hobbiz]

Ya! But the cost is about 6 times here.

 

[dagmar88]

If it's just done as a hobby on a small scale, I wouldn't mind to use the beeswax block...

 

[IanT]

Ya! But the cost is about 6 times here.

true that .... then brick it IS! lol... just chop it up as small as you can before you start to melt it...maybe run over it with your car lol... I still have a brick of bwax and i swear you could seriously hurt someone with it..