Organic Lip Balm

Natural Lip Balm-All labeled and ready for use.

Ingredients: 

•   3 TBS organic beeswax
• 1/4 cup organic shea butter; packed
• 1/4 cup organic coconut oil (the solid type)
• 1 TBS organic honey
• 2 TBS organic cocoa butter
• 2 TBS organic red palm oil
• 25 drops organic grapefruit essential oil
• 20 drops organic orange essential oil
• 15 drops organic sweet orange
• 10 drops organic rosemary
• vanilla bean
• 32-34 lip balm tubes
• Custom Labels (the fun part)!

 Directions:

• Add the beeswax,  shea butter & cocoa to a pint canning jar with lid.
• Place in a double boiler.
• Heat water to a boil and melt ingredients to a liquid form.
• While this is taking place in a small sauce pan over low/medium heat melt the coconut oil & honey, removed from heat; set aside.
• Split a vanilla bean open, scrape off the seed and add to coconut oil/honey.
• Let vanilla beans set for 30 minutes in the coconut oil/honey and then strain vanilla beans out through a cheese cloth into your beeswax & shea butter mixture.
• Turn off heat & add red palm oil & essential oil; stir & combine well.
• Leave your in hot pan so it stays melted.
• Make sure that your lip balm tubes are rolled all the way down.

As you can see my hand is not so steady & I made a mess!

• Using a glass dropper or a glass turkey baster, add the melted lip balm to your lip balm tubes.
• The lip balm will shrink down as it cools, add a little more to each tube (topping it) to fill in.
• Leave the lids off until & cooled completely.
• Add your own custom labels.

I laminate my labels before applying to make them water resistant.

Notes: This is a natural product. Store in a cool dry place. Normally with other lip balms I am constantly having  to reapply multiply times in an hour, with this lip balm I don't! It feels great on my lips. This is a firm balm. If you like softer lip balms add  less beeswax.

Yields: 33-36 tubes, depending on type of tube or container you are using.