This creamy lip balm recipe is a lot of fun to make! You can make just one kind, or you can experiment and create several different flavors. Lip balm also makes a great addition to any gift basket! Perfect Stocking Stuffers, tied onto a gift, or in a festive bowl on your desk at work.

Ingredients Needed:

1. Beeswax: This can be found at local health stores, craft stores, or candle-making supply stores. It is available either in its natural golden color, don't get the bleached white color. It can be purchased either in blocks that can be grated with a cheese grater to get smaller pieces that are easier to work with, or it can also be purchased as small pellets. For this recipe you will need one tablespoon.
2. Cocoa butter: This can be found at many health stores, or any other store that sells soap or lotion making supplies. You will need about one-half tablespoon for this recipe.
3. Organic Fractionated Coconut Oil: You will need 4 teaspoons for this recipe.
4. Honey (optional): This gives your lip gloss a sweeter taste and smell. You can use up to one teaspoon for this recipe. Use 1 Stevia Packet if Sugar is a concern

5. Essential oils: These not only give your lip balm its own unique scent and flavor, they also add the benefits of the essential oil you use to your lip balm creation. Some favorite essential oils to use are peppermint (with or without honey), or one of the citrus oils (such as orange, lime, lemon, or grapefruit) along with the honey (one caution about the citrus oils—they are photosensitizing and can increase the risk of sunburned lips if this lip balm is worn while out in the sun). Because lip balm is worn on the lips and might end up in the mouth, make sure the essential oils you use comes from a source that can be trusted to produce pure oils without any chemical additives. You will need about 5-10 drops of essential oil for this recipe.

6. Make a first aid stick by mixing with Purifying or Nightingale Essential oil. Or Use Release for a pain relief stick for Migraines or stiff winter joints. Use Youthful for the anti-aging benefits under eyes or nightly in wrinkle prone areas.

Instructions:

1. Pack grated beeswax or beeswax pellets into a Tablespoon size measuring spoon until it is packed level with the top, then dump the beeswax into a heat-proof measuring cup (such as a Pyrex™ brand measuring cup).
2. Pack cocoa butter into a one-half-tablespoon size measuring spoon until it is packed level with the top, then dump cocoa butter into the measuring cup with the beeswax.
3. Add 4 teaspoons of fractionated coconut oil to the beeswax and cocoa butter. If a sweeter lip gloss is desired, add up to 1 teaspoon of honey or stevia.
4. Place the measuring cup in a large frying pan that is filled with 1" of hot water.
5. Place the frying pan and measuring cup on the stove and turn the burner on low.
6. Stir the mixture in the measuring cup with a popsicle stick or bamboo skewer every couple of minutes until the wax is completely melted (about 15-20 minutes).
7. Turn off stove and carefully remove the measuring cup from the frying pan and place the measuring cup on a towel on a counter-top or table.
8. Stir in 5-10 drops of your desired essential oil or blend.
9. Pour the mixture into lip balm dispensers, lip gloss containers, or any other small jar or container. This recipe will fill 4 or 5 containers. You may find it easier (and cleaner) to either use a small dropper to transfer the mixture into the small containers, or to use a small funnel to help pour the mixture into the small containers without spilling on the side.

Extra Ideas:

1. To make this lip balm into a softer, shinier lip gloss, try adding a teaspoon more fractionated coconut oil, and a teaspoon less beeswax (or experiment with your own proportions to find something you like).
2. I think Lip Balm Pots are easier. You can also add mineral colors ( use Larinem, Bare Escentuals or Body Shop mineral eye colors you like; like maroon and gold or silver etc..) or food color to tint these.
3. Create fun labels for your lip balm creations using 2" x 4" labels. Set up your labels so that two labels fit side-by-side on each 2" x 4" label, then cut the label in half after printing so you have two labels that each measure 2" x 2". This size fits perfectly on our white lip balm dispensers.