I’ve decided I want to try this formulation with some substitutions.
I found an old tin of moustache wax with only 3 ingredients; beeswax, lanolin and sandalwood oil. I think it’s 50-70% beeswax, 20-40% lanolin, and up to 10% sandalwood oil. I think I will remelt some of that and use it as the beeswax and heavy oil part of the formulation.
- 6g BTMS-50
- 8g remelted moustache wax
- 4-5.6g beeswax
- 1.6-3.2g lanolin
- <0.8g sandalwood oil
- 5g mango butter
- 8g light to medium oil – grapeseed, argan, almond
- 2 drops vitamin E oil
- 10 drops of essential oil (fir, rosemary, ..?)
Update: I melted down some of the moustache wax with olive oil in the microwave as a simple test. I found out that even with a much lower fraction of beeswax, I really don’t like this type of moustache/beard balm. It’s not a very strong hold, but it is sticky enough that I really don’t want it on my hands.
If I’m going to do a moustache/beard balm, it has to be water soluble.