>anyone have a recipe for soap and hand cream made from beeswax ?

You can try these:

BEESWAX SKIN SOAP
Ounces by weight:

1 ounce beeswax
6 ounces olive oil
6 ounces coconut oil
9.5 ounces tallow
3 1/2 ounces Iye'(sodium hydroxide)
8 ounces water
2 teaspoons fragrant essential oil

Add lye to the water and wait for it to cool to 160 degrees F.  Melt the
beeswax.
Weigh and combine the oils and tallow.
Mix in the melted beeswax.
Heat the oils to 130 degrees F.
Slowly pour the lye water into the fat mixture while stirring. Stir for 20
minutes, add the fragrant oil, and pour the soap into molds. Harden the
soap in a freezer for 2 to 3 hours. The soap is harsh at this point so
wear rubber gloves and remove the soap from the molds. Place it on
unprinted cardboard or paper bags to age at least two weeks.

SKIN CREAM

2 1/2 ounces (weight) beeswax
4 ounces (weight) anhydrous lanolin
2/3 cup baby oil
3/4 cup water
1 teaspoon borax (sodium borate, C.P .)
Fragrant essential oil (optional)

Borax is sold with laundry detergents, but chemically pure borax, which is
required for cosmetics, is sold by drug stores ( as sodium borate, C.P .)
Lanolin is sold by drug stores.  In a microwave or double boiler, melt the
oil, lanolin and beeswax to 160 degrees F. Heat the borax and water in a
separate container to 160 degrees F. Be sure the borax is dissolved and
the wax is melted. Add the water mixture to the oil mixture while stiffing
briskly. When white cream forms, stir slowly until the mixture cools to
100 degrees F. Pour it into small, wide-mouth jars.

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