Basic Lip
Balm Recipe
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Mabel White *Note:
Never place the plastic pots or clam shell containers in the
microwave. They will crack. To refill them, simply leave them
out in the hot sun for a bit and wipe clean. The clam shell compacts
are only 1/8 ounce, so be careful not to over fill them. The most disappointing thing about making your own lip
balm is that it only takes a few seconds to prepare in the microwave!
The nicest thing is that everyone walking around the project wants to grab a
pot when you are done and they do cool quickly!
Using Ready Made Balm If you are using Mabel ready made balm, simply place
1/4 ounce of the balm in a plastic cup (for every 1/4 pot you intend to
make) and microwave for only a few seconds. Be careful, the oil can
get hot enough to melt the cup. I keep a little Tupperware container
just for melting balm. One ounce of total ingredients makes four
pots. If using flavor oil, ad only a few drops after the balm is
liquid. If you desire tint swirl just a TAD of lipstick color
in. We find tangerine essential oil is great and offers its own pastel
orange tint. You may also break open a few vitamin e capsules or
primrose oil (we hear it is great for PMS) and
swirl them into your creation. Lip Balm Making in General
You can make a ton of pots and tubes with very
little supplies! There is no recipe known to the lip balm world better
than ours. We first pick out nice clear containers so you can see your
finished product. We facilitate 10 parts Oil (Sweet Almond, Emu or any
other edible oil) to 10 part SoyWax™ (half of each) and and bit of melted Beeswax. What do we mean by a bit? About
5% of the entire mixture. Too much and it will be too hard. A
tad of honey and/or few broken vitamin e capsules can
also be mixed into the melted oils along with anything else you deem cool.
Flavoring
Lip Balm does not need a
sweetener, as much as we thought so. It is said to make lips dry from
licking them. For flavor and sweetness we use
chocolate, honey vanilla or any of the other myriad of oil based flavors we carry.
We find tangerine, really an essential oil, also offers a beautiful orange
pastel tint. Tangerine and Vanilla make creamsicle! Emu Oil as well as beeswax has a natural frosty sheen to it which offers
a natural aesthetic appeal. That is why we like Emu as the oil
in our recipes. If we desire to make Lip Balm Sticks, we
simply increase the SoyWax™ to one half of the mixture so it will stay firm
as a stick.
To make ten .04 ounce
containers: Have your containers open and ready. The clam shell
compacts only hold .08 of an ounce, so be frugal when you drop oil into
them. This project will not
take long. Melt the beeswax in a disposable plastic cup for a minute
in the microwave as it is the longest to melt, and then add soy and continue to melt just a
few seconds longer,
stirring with a thin stick until clear. Add the oil and stir, flavoring to
taste. Using a pipette, drop into containers and you are done. They will cool
within an hour. Ingredients can be purchased from the Mabel White
Company.
1 Ounce of Mabel's SoyWax™
1 Ounce of Mabel White's Sweet Almond Oil
1/8 Ounce Mabel's 100% Beeswax Chips
Desired drops of Lip Balm Flavoring.
Just a little works!
- If you want to make lip gloss just
use sweet almond oil, vitamin e oil, and/or primrose oil and a little
flavor. Click here to see all of our exciting flavors!
- If you like you can add lip stick slivers for color!
- If you want to make Lip Balm
Stick just
increase the SoyWax™ by double. You can still add vitamin e oil and
other neat oils.
These recipes and many more can be found in The
Bathroom Chemist and our new and revised Self
Apothecary.
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