Green tea and cucumber as in : lip balms and not something that we could eat!
I have to write this recipe down for myself, to keep track of my trials and errors : here I go :
Making lip balms is so easy, anybody could do it, with ingredients already in your kitchen. The main thing to remember is the % of the ingredients used to make the lip balm sticks together and reach a very desirable final product, full of softness and wonderful tasty flavors.
MMS gave me the starting point of my project and from there, the sky is the limit to my creation. Of course, as I’m not incline to very complicated calculation, I decided to start with a final result : I wanted to make 2oz of lip balms. That been said, here we go :
Coconut oil, 25 % of 2oz is : .50oz (Coconut oil is excellent as a skin moisturizer and softener)
Cocoa butter, 15% of 2oz is : .30oz (cocoa butter contains natural antioxidants that prevent rancidity and give it a storage life of two to five years)
white beewax, 20% of 2oz is : .40oz (a component of sealing
Olive oil, 40% of 2oz is : .80oz (excellent oil to generate and moisturizer for the skin)
Olive oil, 40% of 2oz is : .80oz (excellent oil to generate and moisturizer for the skin)
I added 6 drops of liquid vitamin E (heal scars and dry skins), and 6 drops of Green Tea & Cucumber essential oil to the melted oils.
Now, all these ingredients can be found at Whole Food, Hobby Store or some supermarket. I ordered my lip balms containers on the net here and also, this site will provide you with a tutorial on how to make lip balms.
The final result gave me a very smooth lip balm product, one that can hold itself in small round containers, as well as in those pencil like sticks. My loved ones will get tons of lip balms for this Christmas, for sure!
*to add SPF to a lip balm, use Shea Butter as an extrat ingredient. It provides a natural ultraviolet sun protection.
Now, in this picture, I made exactly the same recipe but instead of using Green Tea & Cucumber essential oil, I used Vanilla. The recipe gave me 22 tubes of lip balm, .07oz each. So easy to do…
