This homemade lip balm is not too hard and not too soft; it’s the baby bear of lip balms! Perfect for a pot or tin, quick, easy, all natural, inexpensive, and most of all deeply nourishing! Customize it with your favorite oils to make your perfect balm.
Ingredients and Basic Ratio:
1 part beeswax
1 part solid coconut oil
1 part Shea butter (or cocoa or mango butter)
2 parts sunflower oil (or other liquid carrier oil)
A few drops of vitamin E oil
About 1% dilution** of peppermint essential oil (or other eo)
Now practically speaking, you’ll want to scale this recipe for the container(s) you have. The ones I bought are 10ml or about 2 tsp. So let’s just say you want to make ONE 10ml container of lip balm. Here’s how it breaks down.
2g beeswax
2g solid coconut oil
2g shea butter
4g sunflower oil
1 drop vitamin E oil
2 drops peppermint essential oil
From here you can easily just multiply these quantities for the amount of product you wish to make. (Say for a wonderful gift idea!)
Tools:
Small heatproof bowl and saucepan
spatula or spoon
a small container, pot, or tin
a small kitchen scale (kinda optional)
Instructions:
1. Place beeswax, coconut oil, shea butter, and sunflower oil in a double boiler or a heatproof bowl on top of a saucepan of simmering water. Stir gently until all are completely melted.
2. Remove from heat and stir in vitamin E oil and essential oil (if using).
3. Carefully (but quickly) pour the liquid oil mixture into lip balm containers and allow to sit until product has completely cooled. For faster results move the lip balm to the fridge after it’s cooled slightly. When the balm is completely cool, cap it and you’re good to go!
*Pro Tip: if your mixture begins to harden in the bowl before you have managed to fill all the little containers, simply set it back on the heat to remelt. It’s very forgiving.
**Handy chart/ calculator for essential oil dilution: www.nowfoods.c...
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6 сен 2024
