So do you remember that whole thing about a 2:2:1 (olive oil : beeswax : honey) ratio? Do you remember me saying I added another ratio of olive oil, hoping to make my cream less sticky? It totally didn't work. The honey seemed to settle on the bottom, never mixing with the rest of the concoction, but I was out of beeswax, until now.
The white beeswax on the right is the one I normally get; the one on the right was the "filtered" one I was wondering about. It smells. . . plasticky almost, so I'm not really sold quite yet. These were bought from
The Sage.
Anyway, I had a major problem (who am I kidding? There was more than one problem) when I tried to "fix" my cream--I forgot which unit I'd previously used. Was it half a cup or a quarter cup? Couldn't remember, didn't write it down.
So, I added half a cup more beeswax, and at this point felt like "What the hell?" so I added a heaping teaspoon of coconut oil (I know, it wasn't in the recipe but see the aforementioned comment), and then filled it to the neck/brim with olive oil (probably wasn't more than a quarter of a cup, it was already so full). And below was my finished product:
As you can see, even with rigorous stirring, I had a layer of honey on the bottom that wouldn't incorporate. So I separated them and tossed the honey.
I'm keeping this mixture not to use, but in the hope that it can be salvaged in the future (although how, I'm not completely sure yet).
