Making baby balm with beeswax-help!

[Plarka]

I found a recipe somewhere online to make baby balm with one part beeswax to 5 parts olive oil and I want to make some. But I can't figure out how much beeswax I should buy because it's in grams or ounces and I don't know how much would be in a cup! Has anyone made this before?

Thanks!

[3bees~1flower]

a part is whatever you want it to be....a teaspoon, a gram, an ounce, ect...if i were you i would weigh all the ingredients, much more accurate that way. i would just buy a pound of beeswax. that will be more than enough to make a lot of balm. a cup is 8oz. but that would make a huge amount of balm.

[Plarka]

I just realized I meant to say the recipe calls for a cup of beeswax to 5 cups oil, but that could mean 1 part to 5 parts, couldn't it? So I could just buy whatever amount of beeswax I want and then do 5 x that of oil.

[3bees~1flower]

Originally Posted by Plarka

I just realized I meant to say the recipe calls for a cup of beeswax to 5 cups oil, but that could mean 1 part to 5 parts, couldn't it? So I could just buy whatever amount of beeswax I want and then do 5 x that of oil.

exactly!! i would reduce the parts to say, tablespoons. 6 cups is A LOT of product.