Showing posts with label lip balm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lip balm. Show all posts

Monday, December 7, 2009

Spreading the merrymint. Mint Lip Balm

Merrymint mint lip balm recipe (kind of like burt's bees)

makes about 12 -15 of the .15 oz tubes

Equipment:
  • A sauce pan you don't care about to melt things in.
  • Digital scale is really nice to have
  • Having a tube filling tray really helps.
  • Spatula
  • A place to fill the tubes that you can get lip balm all over. I used a cake pan.

Ingredients:
1 oz beeswax (our wax was from a bee keeper)
0.5 oz virgin coconut oil (more like butter)
0.5 oz regular coconut oil (more like butter)
0.3 oz lanolin oil (helps to warm it)
0.8 oz sunflower oil
5 drops rosemary oil (high quality)
30 - 40 drops peppermint oil (medium quality)

optional: vitamin E oil.

Process:
Heat all on very low/melt heat.
When melted add the rosemary and peppermint drops.
Pour into tubes.

About the recipe: we started with a recipe off the internet and I used all virgin coconut oil first and found it was to strong of a coconut flavor. The regular coconut oil did not have as much aromatics and was also softer. We also went 50/50 on wax to coconut oils to get a softer stick. You can use 1.5 oz wax to get a harder stick if you like. We also found that our rosemary oil was very high quality and cut it in half.

Enjoy