FREE RECIPE - Moisturizing Lip Balm Recipe

For anyone who doesn’t know, lip balms are magical, all-oil skin care products that keep our lips moist and flake-free all year round.

Lip Balm Ingredients

16 grams Beeswax

10 grams Cocoa Butter

7 grams Shea Butter

10 grams Sweet Almond Oil

6.25 grams Castor Oil

0.5 grams Vitamin E Oil

0.25 grams Any Essential Oil of your choice

5 Lip Balm Tubes (or container)

Instructions

Place the beeswax, cocoa butter, shea butter, and castor oil into a heat-proof beaker.

To melt the oils, place the beaker into a water bath or bain marie. You can create a water bath by filling a saucepan with a couple of cm of water and bringing it up to a gentle simmer. Let the beaker sit in the simmering water until the wax and butter have just melted.

Once fully melted remove the beaker from the saucepan, but keep the water bath close by as you may need it again. Now it's time to add the sweet almond oil. The reason we are adding sweet almond oil at this point is to protect it from too much heat and to lower the temperature ready for the vitamin E and essential oil. This can, however, shock the waxes. If they do start to become hard again you can pop the beaker back into the water to gently re-melt them. This is the best way to protect your oils from being stripped of their skin-loving benefits.

When the oils are cooled slightly but are still liquid, We can add the vitamin E and essential oil, stirring until fully combined. Once again, pop it back into the water bath to gently re-melt if it starts to solidify.

Make sure any tubes that you are using are fully twisted down. Pour the oils into lip balm tubes or containers. Lip balm containers can be fully filled, but tubes are best left with a little space at the top ready for topping up later. For this, you will need to hang on to a small amount of the balm mix. When filled Leave the lids off, and put them into a cold place to solidify. A fridge is a perfect place for cooling them quickly, they shouldn't take much more than 30 minutes.

Re-melt the leftover balm mix and top the tubes up, then set them aside to solidify. When they are solid and cool pop the lids on and leave them to sit for 24 hours before using. This gives the lip balm time to thicken and bond with the lip balm screw at the bottom of the tube.

Shelf Life:

Providing you’re using a good quality antioxidant like vitamin e, and you don’t expose your lip balms to a significant amount of water your balms should be good for at least 12 months.

Ingredients available in our raw ingredients category

Links:

Beeswax Yellow: https://www.plaasdoepa.co.za/products/beeswax-beads-natural-yellow/

Beeswax White: https://www.plaasdoepa.co.za/products/beeswax-beads-natural-white/

Shea Butter (Unrefined): https://www.plaasdoepa.co.za/products/shea-butter-unrefined/

Shea Butter (Refined): https://www.plaasdoepa.co.za/products/shea-butter-refined/

Sweet Almond Oil: https://www.plaasdoepa.co.za/products/sweet-almond-oil/

Cator Oil: https://www.plaasdoepa.co.za/products/castor-oil-cold-pressed-hexane-free/

Vitamin E Acetate: https://www.plaasdoepa.co.za/products/vitamin-e-acetate/

Essential Oils: https://www.plaasdoepa.co.za/products/categories/raw-ingredients/subcategories/essential-oils/