I fail at making lotion

I've made soap before, but never really did lotion because I didn't want to deal with buying and labeling bottles and such. But, my boyfriend has sensitive skin and can't use most commercial lotions so I thought I'd try my hand at trying to make him some, since he usually just uses up all my aloe vera gel.

I tried this recipe:

4 oz grapeseed oil
2 oz beeswax
2 oz rose water
10 drops vitamin e

And at first I thought everything was turning out well, things were looking smooth and creamy, it didn't smell like roses (which is what I wanted from the rose water) but it smelled like honey from the beeswax, so that was cool too. I used a pretty unrefined beeswax because that's what they had at the health food store near us, I didn't know it would smell quite so strong.

But after an hour or so of sterilizing all my stuff then melting down and mixing, everything came out all grainy! I guess I didn't quite get everything melted well, and it was a little thick for my taste. So I tried to remelt and add water, but all the extra water separated. I tried a second batch with my leftovers with less beeswax and that never melted in the first place. Ugh.

I've never worked with oil and water and wax emulsions before, needless to say, and it seems there is very little room for adjustment in the ratios. I tried to calculate based off of the basic lotion percentages I found online for my second batch, but perhaps because the percentages I read were for emulsifying wax and not beeswax I was off? Or maybe its just because I was using a fork because I don't have a blender. But anyway, I just mixed my sort of grainy really thick lotion with a bunch of aloe gel and gave it to my boyfriend anyway, and I'm sure he doesn't really care about any differences in lotion anyway. Anyone have any suggestions as to a better fix?

On the bright side, after I gave up I did make myself a nice little pot of beeswax lip balm, which I've sorely been in need of since I always lose my chapstick. I'm going to experiment with a few different recipes for that and maybe list some in my shop, since that seems to be a lot easier than lotions.