Wintery Wonderland Skin & Lip Balm Recipe - Elements Bath & Body Learning Center

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!)