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August 08, 2005
The return of homemade lip balm
A couple of years ago, I was inspired by not martha's adventures in making lip balm and made orange flavored lip balm for everyone I knew. With her thorough instructions and a slightly different recipe, it was a great success. I had been meaning to make up another batch of it ever since, but had never been able to find eye droppers that would work for filling up the containers. Yesterday, Dave and I stopped in at Aurora Borealis and there were the perfect eye droppers for 99 cents! I bought two (just in case) and some peppermint essential oil and made up a mini batch of lip balm, once again with not martha's help. Again, I had to tweak her recipe slightly. I'm lazy and don't want to buy ingredients, so this is the recipe I came up with to fill up about six of these little plastic jars:
1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons of coconut oil (mine was melted and spilled all over the floor for extra mopping!)
1 1/2 teaspoons of beeswax (give or take)
1 teaspoon of olive oil
10 drops of essential oil
The last batch I made was very gloss-like rather than balm like, so I went for more beeswax this time. I'm very glad my experiment worked out so well. The lip balm came out just the way I wanted it to.
I followed not martha's perfect instructions for melting the ingredients and then droppered them little by little into the containers. I had a little problem at first because the dropper was much colder than the liquid and so the lip balm started to harden in the dropper tube. I switched to the second dropper and held it a few seconds in the hot (but not anywhere near boiling) water I had used to help melt the ingredients. This worked much better; only a little bit of lip balm hardened in the tube and each dropper-full was really pretty full.
What's nice about this homemade lip balm is that, while it smells quite minty, it doesn't really taste minty after you first apply it. I don't like lip balms that taste sweet or taste like anything really, so it's nice to have the flavor go away quickly. And the lip balm feels quite nice, too.
I hope this will be the start of a crafty week. My Betsy Ross pattern arrived this weekend, so I'd like to try and work on the skirt. I bought some nice wool at Valley Fabric, but would really like to get some cotton or something so I can wear my skirt a little sooner. A trip to Jo Ann's is definitely in my near future.
Posted by kelseyfrost at August 8, 2005 12:17 PM
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Hello hello! Your blog design is so cute! I love blogs, I'm so glad to have another to read! :) And I'll definitely be trying that lip balm recipe, maybe for Xmas gifts! Thanks! :)
Posted by: Marissa at August 8, 2005 02:21 PM
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