How to make lip balm

1. Grate the cocoa butter up with any standard grater. This speeds up the melting process.

2. Add the roughly chopped Shea Butter

3. Add the beeswax pellets to the cocoa butter and shea butter.

4. Measure the liquid oils and add to the butters and beeswax.

5. Place into a microwave and heat in short bursts until fully melted. Mix well and add any flavour oil or other items such as honey or chocolate at this point.

6. Place the jars on a tray and spoon the lip balm into small jars. Place in a fridge to set for approx 1 hour. Place caps on the jars and label accordingly.

Placing the lip balm into the fridge to set reduces the amount of dipping in the centre of the jars. If this is a worry or affects the look of your lip balms or butters simply keep a little of the mixture back, allow them to partly set then remelt the remainder and top up the jars to cover any slight dip that may have formed. This is totally usual and is caused by the natural shrinkage of the beeswax.

The Basic Lip Balm Recipe

1 tablespoon beeswax pellets

1 tablespoon roughly chopped shea butter
1 tablespoon grated cocoa butter
1 tablespoon sweet almond oil

1 tablespoon castor oil
Optional items:

Cosmetic grade Flavour oil

Chocolate

Honey

Tip: Place the pots onto a tray and place in the fridge to set.

This will prevent any dip in the surface of the jar.

Why not add a little honey or liquid glucose to sweeten the lip balm.
For sheer indulgence add a little melted chocolate – yumm!!
You can even add a couple of drops of peppermint oil for a cooling touch.
If your balm is too hard, simply remelt it and add additional liquid oils.
If too soft, simply re-melt and add a little more cocoa butter or beeswax – but just a little :-)

All of these cosmetic ingredients can be found on the Cosmetic Ingredients Page

Packaging for lips balms are below.

Fragrance/flavouring:

You MUST NOT use "fragrance oils" (like the ones we sell for soap and bath bomb making). You MUST use one of the FLAVOUR oils on the Cosmetic Ingredients Page Why? Fragrance Oils are not suitable for lips and possible ingestion. Flavour oils are specifically designed for this purpose.

Colouring: You cannot use the liquid colours suitable for soap and bath bombs to make lip balms and butters. These are water based and the lip balms are oil based. If you wish to colour them, why not use a natural colour by infusing some Alkanet root into the liquid oil for a delicious red colour.

Making

A Chocolate

Lip Balm

Follow the main steps above for a lip balm or butter from scratch. When fully melted add in 1 chunk of your favourite chocolate

Allow it to begin the soften then gently stir it into the lip balm.

Add your vanilla FLAVOUR oil.

You can use up to 15 drops per 10 lip balm pot.

Place the pots onto a tray and spoon the mixture into the jars.

If any dipping occurs and you wish to you can top them up to create a perfectly smooth top.