All natural, easy, cheap, smooth and moisturizing. Use your old tubes/tins and never buy lip balm again. Happy days.
INGREDIENTS
2 oz beeswax ($1.66)
5 T. + 1 t. organic coconut oil ($1.42)
1/4 c. organic olive oil ($0.67)
1 t. vitamin E oil ($0.50)
A few drops of lemon (or vanilla, or whatever you want) extract (let's say $0.15)
If you have a wood skewer or popsicle stick or something, that's good to use for stirring
You'll also need the tubes/tins/jars you're going to put the balm in
OPTIONAL: To add sun protection, include 1 T. zinc oxide (non-nano) to this recipe
Note this makes about 5.8 oz. of lip balm for $4.40, which means it's costing 11.4 cents per standard tube (which is 0.15 oz.) and you've made almost 39 tubes of lip balm!
DIRECTIONS
- Take a shallow (cereal) bowl and line with plastic wrap (you'll pour over this)
- Cut up beeswax into small-ish chunks
- Put a measuring cup in a sauce pan (top photo) and fill pan up with water so it doesn't go over the top of the measuring cup and bring the water to a simmer/light boil
- Add beeswax and allow it to melt completely
- Add all other ingredients and stir until all are melted together
- Hold tubes/tins over bowl lined with plastic wrap and pour from measuring cup into containers
- Wipe the measuring cup out promptly with paper towels and wash right away with dish soap to avoid the balm hardening on it
- Pour leftovers in a wide-mouthed jar (second photo), which you can use directly, or you can always melt this again and refill tubes
- Let sit for a few hours to harden and you're set!
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