First time making Felix lube

oldatheart

Active Member
All went well I quadrupled the recipe and dyed it purple. Special thanks to 358156 "Bob" for the lanolin and dye.

Original portions

2 Tablespoons mineral oil
1 Tablespoon castor oil
1 Tablespoon Ivory, or homemade soap (grated)
1 Tablespoon Lanolin
Beeswax - Piece approximately 3 1/2" X 3 1/2" X 1 "

Heat mineral (baby) oil until it starts to smoke.

Add castor oil, and reduce heat to 150 and let cook for an hour and 20 min.

I Grated the soap, and stired it into the mixture a little at a time, until melted. I had to bring heat up to 200 degrees for this.

I Dropped the temp to 150 And added the beeswax when melted

Then add the lanolin and took it off the heat.
Stirred untill all dissolved and added the dye cubes.
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Ps it's purple for the wife! "Her favorite color."
 
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Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
I have made many batches. Mine are pretty much all left natural for color anymore. I was using a few crayons for color in the past.

Pretty simple stuff to make, isn't it?
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Come on up and watch a batch of soap lube, it IS intimidating. 450 degrees of pain of you splash a bit.
 

sundog

Active Member
I am on my last loaf of the massive big pour that Felix and I did years ago. We did many gallons of it in the MOAS with many subscribers anxiously waiting their loaf in the mail. Felix included two extra ingredients in the big batch; jajoba oil and microparaffin. It will be tough to precisely duplicate that batch - it was that good!
 

Ian

Notorious member
Things change with batch size, has to do with the thermal mass of the lube. I usually make quadruple batches and have to subtract half the mineral oil and add back twice as much Vaseline to get it to shoot the same as the "standard batch" in warm to extremely hot weather. But shoot it does. My cool weather formula employs much less lanolin and the addition of some polyolester two-cycle engine oil in order to get rid of the cold-barrel flyer syndrome that shows up below 40'F.