Making Basic Lip Balm for any Occasion
• What you will need:
-A double boiler or microwave oven
-Crushed or grated beeswax
-Extra virgin olive oil
-12 to 25 drops of your choice essential oil blend
-Plastic, metal or glass lip balm tubes or containers
In a double boiler or a microwave, melt, on low heat, 1 ounce of the crushed or gates beeswax. You can find beeswax pellets in the health food store and those will work just fine as well. Add in 3 ounces of the extra-virgin olive oil until the wax has softened and begins to melt completely. Combine the olive oil with the beeswax, but do not stir to hard or fast and allow air bubbles to get inside the mixture. This will turn you lip balm into more of a salve than a solid stick of lip balm.
Remove the mixture from the heat and mix in 12 to 25 drops of your choice of essential oils. Essential oils are very intense so if you are adding, say peppermint always start small and work your way up with the drops. You don’t want to over power your lips with the peppermint oil, it will burn if you get too much.
Pour the lip balm mixture into 1/4 ounce plastic lip balm tubes, containers or even metal salve containers will work. You can find all of these at a crafts store or a health food store world wide. Let the tubes sit in room temperature to cool completely before applying the lids. If you place them in a cooler or refrigerator they will harden to quickly and begin to crack. When you go to use the lip balm it won’t hold it’s shape and will break apart.
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