Chandu
I Waxed The Badger.
I read the instructions on the tube and it implies you should use cold water as hot water hardens the cream. Indeed, using cold water made for an even better shave!
Speick in the red/blue tube is my new favorite cream
Just a thought as to what may be going on here with the hot/cold water. Beeswax has a melting point at about 145 F. So if the tube contains beeswax and it's to be in a liquid state they've got some solvent that is dissolving the beeswax to keep it liquid at normal use temps. Perhaps hot water causes that solvent to flash off or in some other way causes it not to work and thereby the beeswax hardens.
I do really need to try the Speick cream and AS.