Homemade Lip Balm

Nadine Hartman Bourne
by Nadine Hartman Bourne
7 Materials
$5
20 Minutes
Medium
No mater the weather I always seem to have dry lips. Hot, cold doesn't matter I need my lip balm. I have them everywhere, by my bed, in my purse, in a basket by the couch and even one in my car. I don't really care for some of the ingredients in store bought lip balms. So I set out on an internet search to make my own. This is now my third batch and we are just loving it.
Ingredients needed:
5 TBSP Bees wax
2 TBSP Cherry kernel oil
2 tsp coconut oil
2 tsp coco butter
1 ml vitamin E oil
1 ml flavor oil (butter cream)
1 ml lip smacking sweet
You can substitute another liquid oil for the cherry. Something like olive oil or sunflower oil would be fine. I chose cherry for the skin benefits it was something I had in my soap making stash. Also you can leave out the sweet and flavor oils. They aren't necessary I added them because I had them. My first 2 batches were flavorless.
I buy coco butter and bees wax in pastilles it makes it a whole lot easier to measure out.
measure out the solid oils (the coco butter and the bees wax). I have a small aluminum pitcher that I use for this. It was my grandmothers. She used it in candle making.
I use a hot plate to melt the oils. The lowest temperature on mine is 200. I get the tubes ready while waiting for the hard oils/wax to melt. Pop off the caps and make sure the dial is rotated all the way to the bottom.
Once the bees wax and coco butter are melted I add in the liquid oils and the flavor oils. If you have any lip safe mica or colorants you can add a little of that too. I leave mine natural as my son like to take a tube every so often.
These are the flavor oils and vitamin E I added. The flavor oils came from a company called Bramble berry they have about 15 different flavors. https://www.brambleberry.com
Now we fill the tubes. I started off using one of the pipettes That I used to measure the 1 ml liquid things. But that started to clog as the oils started to cool. So I started picking up the tubes one by one and used the pitcher to pour and fill the tubes. Be careful as the oils are still pretty warm. If you let it cool too much it doesn't pour well. You can either put the pot back on the heat and let it melt again or you could use something like a butter knife to scrape the paste and fill the tubes that way.


*Note*
If you use a double boiler to melt your waxes be sure to wipe any water off the pitcher before you pour/ Water doesn't mix well into the oils and wax.
This is an empty and cleaned frosting container. Left over from my son's birthday cake. it was just the perfect size to hold the tubes until someone needs one.
This recipe made 18 tubes. I bought a 50 pack of them off Amazon for $7


If you need to buy everything to start with is is going to cost a bit. I already had everything except the tubes so it cost me next to nothing to make. If you break down the cost into individual tubes it probably cost about 25 cents or less a tube to make.
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