How To Make Wintery Wonderland Skin & Lip Balm Recipe
This versatile recipe offers you many different options depending on your packaging, labeling and fragrance/flavoring choices. You can call this a Cuticle Stick/Balm, Gardener’s Stick/Balm, Chap Balm or Lip Balm … the choice is yours!
This formula works great on any extra dry patches of skin, dry cracked heels or elbows and on wind chapped skin areas especially a concern in the winter months. This handy recipe works great as a lip balm as well, simply adding one of our many lip flavors instantly creates a lip balm that will soon become a favorite!
For this formula, we’re choosing specialty oils such as jojoba (really a wax close to our skin’s natural sebum), and Apricot Kernel for its lightweight feel, moisturizing and anti-oxidant properties.
INFORMATION
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Yield: 4.6 oz
TIMING
- Prep Time / Clean Up: 15 Minutes
- Perform Time: 45 Minutes
- Total Time: 1 Hour
SUPPLIES
- Double Boiler for Melting (If you don’t have a double boiler, you can use a stainless steel pan and a stainless steel cookie cutter to keep the pitcher from coming in contact with the bottom of the pan.) (can also be CAREFULLY microwaved)
- Heat Safe Glass Measuring Cup or Funnel Pitcher
- Stir Stick or Spoon for Sitrring
- Pipettes (for fragrence)
- Digital Scale
- 90-91% Isopropyl Alcohol (for sanitizing supplies and clean-up)
- Paper Towels
Containers of your choice to fit a total of 4.6 oz. (You may cut it in half as long as you keep the proportions of waxes and oils equal.)
Here are Some Options:
We also carry cute Lip Pots and Tins as a tube alternative.
INGREDIENTS
- 1.3 oz / 37 g Beeswax (White) or Beeswax (Natural)
- 1.3 oz / 37 g Apricot Kernel Oil
- 1 oz / 28 g Golden Jojoba Oil
- 0.5 oz / 14 g Castor Oil
- 0.5 oz / 14 g Natural Vitamin E
- 0.05 oz / 1.3 g Peppermint Essential Oil (1%) (Optional) or 0.14 oz / 4 g (up to 3%) Creme de Menthe Flavor Oil (Optional) or any Lip Flavor Oil
DIRECTIONS
Step 1
Melt Beeswax in double boiler until melted.
Step 2
Add Apricot Kernel, Jojoba, Castor and Vitamin E Oils and stir until melted.
Step 3
Add Seasonal Flair!
Options:
For Skin & Lip Sticks/Balms Add 0.05 oz / 1.3 g (1%) Peppermint Essential Oil
For Flavored Lip Balms Add up to 0.14 oz / 4 g (3%) Seasonally Inspired Lip Flavor (Creme de Menthe, Mint Chocolate Chip or Snickerdoodle are perfect choices!)
Step 4
Pour into Lip Balm Tubes and allow to harden.
Step 5
Label and use.
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