Recently I melted and purified some of my bees wax that I had been gathering. I also purchased some oils, flavorings and empty lip balm tubes to make some homemade lip balm.

I purchased the oils, flavorings and butters from www.LorannOils.com and had them mailed to the house. Lorann offers regular or extra strength flavorings. I chose to use the extra strength flavorings.



Here is a presentation from Yvonne Von Der Ahe with her recipe for lip balm. Her recipe makes almost 45 tubes.

I used her recipe as a template and made smaller batches that produced 6 tubes each (recipes provided at the end of the article).

Making the lip balm is pretty straight forward, but does require a kitchen scale to measure the ingredients to maintain the desired firmness/softness of the lip balm.


Once the ingredients were measured, I put them into an 8oz jelly jar and placed that into a pot of hot water on the stove in a make-shift double boiler.



Once the ingredients were melted, I added flavoring oil to the desired strength and stirred. To aid in transferring the melted ingredients from the jar to the empty tubes I used an eye-dropper (medicine dispenser) to fill the tubes.



I made a total of three batches (6 tubes each) today. Pictured below are the finished product with flavors of: chocolate raspberry, pomegranate and black cherry.



A few notes I made during the process:
Cocoa butter has a strong chocolate flavor. Some recipes use it, some do not. I found it difficult to get the flavoring oil to overcome the chocolate flavor and thus my "Raspberry" lip balm became "Chocolate Raspberry". This probably wouldn't have been the case if I used "refined" or "deodorized" cocoa butter.

The other batches I increased the amount of almond oil and Shea butter and removed the cocoa butter. This allowed the flavoring oil to come through with a stronger scent/flavor without changing the texture.

Chocolate Raspberry Lip Balm
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makes six standard .15 oz tubes

10 g Sweet Almond Oil
5.7 g Beeswax
7.14 g Shea Butter
4.28 g Cocoa Butter
30 drops flavoring oil (Raspberry)

Combine Ingredients and heat until mixed. Pour into empty lip balm tubes and allow to cool.


Pomegranate or Black Cherry Lip Balm
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makes six standard .15 oz tubes

12 g Sweet Almond Oil
5.7 g Beeswax
9 g Shea Butter
10 drops flavoring oil (Pomegranate or Black Cherry)

Combine Ingredients and heat until mixed. Pour into empty lip balm tubes and allow to cool.