Basic Lip Balm Recipe

With Wonderful

Copyright Mabel White

*Note:  Never place the plastic pots or clam shell containers in the microwave.  They will crack.  To refill them, simply leave them out in the hot sun for a bit and wipe clean.  The clam shell compacts are only 1/8 ounce, so be careful not to over fill them.

The most disappointing thing about making your own lip balm is that it only takes a few seconds to prepare in the microwave!  The nicest thing is that everyone walking around the project wants to grab a pot when you are done and they do cool quickly!

Using Ready Made Balm 

If you are using Mabel ready made balm, simply place 1/4 ounce of the balm in a plastic cup (for every 1/4 pot you intend to make) and microwave for only a few seconds.  Be careful, the oil can get hot enough to melt the cup.  I keep a little Tupperware container just for melting balm.  One ounce of total ingredients makes four pots.  If using flavor oil, ad only a few drops after the balm is liquid.  If you desire tint swirl just a TAD of lipstick color in.  We find tangerine essential oil is great and offers its own pastel orange tint.  You may also break open a few vitamin e capsules or primrose oil (we hear it is great for PMS) and swirl them into your creation.  

Lip Balm Making in General

You can make a ton of pots and tubes with very little supplies!  There is no recipe known to the lip balm world better than ours.  We first pick out nice clear containers so you can see your finished product.  We facilitate 10 parts Oil (Sweet Almond, Emu or any other edible oil) to 10 part SoyWax™ (half of each) and and  bit of melted Beeswax.  What do we mean by a bit?  About 5% of the entire mixture.  Too much and it will be too hard.  A tad of honey and/or few broken vitamin e capsules can also be mixed into the melted oils along with anything else you deem cool.  

Flavoring

Lip Balm does not need a sweetener, as much as we thought so.  It is said to make lips dry from licking them.  For flavor and sweetness we use chocolate, honey vanilla or any of the other myriad of oil based flavors we carry.  We find tangerine, really an essential oil, also offers a beautiful orange pastel tint.  Tangerine and Vanilla make creamsicle!  Emu Oil as well as beeswax has a natural frosty sheen to it which offers a natural aesthetic appeal.   That is why we like Emu as the oil in our recipes.  If we desire to make Lip Balm Sticks, we simply increase the SoyWax™ to one half of the mixture so it will stay firm as a stick.

To make ten .04 ounce containers:  Have your containers open and ready.  The clam shell compacts only hold .08 of an ounce, so be frugal when you drop oil into them.  This project will not take long.  Melt the beeswax in a disposable plastic cup for a minute in the microwave as it is the longest to melt, and then add soy and continue to melt just a few seconds longer, stirring with a thin stick  until clear.  Add the oil and stir, flavoring to taste.  Using a pipette, drop into containers and you are done.  They will cool within an hour.  Ingredients can be purchased from the Mabel White Company.   

1 Ounce of Mabel's SoyWax™

1 Ounce of Mabel White's Sweet Almond Oil

1/8 Ounce Mabel's 100% Beeswax Chips

Desired drops of  Lip Balm Flavoring.  Just a little works!