I have been testing lubes in the bitter cold so wanted to make a softer Felix by reducing the beeswax from my summer loads.
I was doing the oils in a small pan, then started adding the Ivory, seemed to be my normal amount, one TBS. The soap is hard to melt of course but somehow I had too much. I was stirring and trying to keep the heat right, need to go near the flame and lift the pan a little, the kitchen stove even on low needs care here.
All of a sudden the oils jelled, looked like Vaseline, had some flakes of soap left.
I poured and scraped it into the melted beeswax, stirred it a while and added the lanolin. I had boolits set to pan lube so poured there first, the rest into another plastic food tray. I had flakes of soap left in the pan so just wiped it out with a paper towel. Some was in the second tray but settled to the bottom, I needed a filter.
After all cooled, the lube is perfect, got the boolits out with my kake cutter.
I put the pans in the freezer to break the lube out of the pans and it did not harden much at all, seems to be exactly the same as room temp lube. It is sticky and flexible.
Have I hit on something by accident? Or is the oil supposed to jell?
I will shoot some today, it is bitter cold out.
I will let you know.
Felix, can you comment?