When I can't find what I want . . . I make it!

Before I began making my own body products, I tried many different lip balms. I found many that I liked . . . but none that I really fell in love with.

Making my own lip balm recipes lets me strike the perfect balance of ingredients—not too greasy, waxy, slippery, and not something I have to reapply all the time. Something just right!

I'd like to share one of my favorite lip balm recipes with you.

This recipe fills about 24 tubes that hold 5 ml (1/6 oz) each.  

That's enough lip balm tubes for me to stash away in different areas of my house. I can keep one by my bedside, one in the kitchen, and one in the bathroom.

I also have enough to give away as gifts. It's so nice to have a little stock of homemade lip balms to give to friends!

Lip Balm Recipe

Green Mandarin, Calendula, & Vanilla Lip Balm

It's so nice to have a little stock of homemade lip balms to give to friends!
This recipe makes about 24 lip balms. 

Ingredients

• 1 oz (28 gm) Beeswax (Cera flava))

• 1 fl oz (30 ml) Calendula Oil (Calendula officinalis))

• 2 fl oz (60 ml) Vanilla-infused Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis

• 40 drops Green Mandarin Oil (Citrus reticulata)

Equipment

• Twenty-four lip balm tubes

• One lip balm tube tray (optional)

• Several small bowls (to measure your ingredients)

• Kitchen scale

• Glass stirring rod (or a stainless steel spoon)

• Funnel or a plastic pipette

• Double boiler or a cooking pot that can hold the Pyrex

Directions

• If you don't have a double boiler, you can use a Pyrex measuring cup placed in a soup pot that's ¼ full of gently boiling water.
  (Your ingredients go in the Pyrex, and the water in the pot heats the Pyrex gently until everything is melted.)

• Melt the beeswax and jojoba in the Pyrex.

• Add the calendula oil after the beeswax and jojoba are melted.

• Stir gently and remove the Pyrex from the heat.

• Add the drops of essential oil, and stir again.

• Pour your blend into your lip balm tubes.
  (The easiest way to hold them is by getting a lip balm tube tray, which holds all your tubes in place, so you don't have to worry about spilling hot liquid on your fingers.)

If your blend begins to solidify before you have all your tubes filled, just remelt it in your ever-helpful "double boiler."

Let your lip balm harden for about half an hour before using it. Then try it and see how delicious the Green Mandarin makes it taste!

If you're looking for another AMAZING lip balm recipe check out this one (made with coconut, vanilla, cocoa and lime!).

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