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homemade lip balm with shea butter and peppermint

How To Make Lip Balm With Shea Butter

We're enjoying this lip balm recipe with shea butter. It's one of my favorites so far, & I'll be using it a lot this winter. It's so soothing and hydrating.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Active Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Course: DIY Skincare
Cuisine: N/A
Difficulty Level: Easy
Yield (adjustable): 50 grams
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Ingredients:

Equipment:

Instructions:

  • Place the beeswax, shea butter, kokum butter, Lanolin, and castor oil into a heat-proof beaker.
    10 grams Beeswax, 12 grams Shea Butter, 8 grams Kokum Butter, 5 grams Castor Oil, 1.25 grams Lanolin
    butters and wax for a lip balm
  • Place the beaker into a water bath or bain marie. You can create a water bath by filling a saucepan with a couple of inches of water and bringing it up to a gentle simmer. Let the beaker sit in the simmering water until the wax and butter have melted.
    water bath or bain marie
  • Once the wax and butter have melted, remove them from the heat but keep the water bath close by as you may need it again.
    melted & remove from the heat
  • Add your Avocado oil and stir until well combined. If it starts to become solid and cloudy you can pop the beaker back into the water to gently re-melt it. We are trying to heat our avocado oil as little as possible so that we do not lose all of its wonderful skin-loving potency.
    13 grams Avocado Oil
    making shea butter lip balm
  • Add vitamin E and pepermint essential oil and stir again. If the oils start to solidify, you can pop the beaker back into the water to gently re-melt it
    0.5 grams Vitamin E Oil, 0.25 grams Peppermint Essential Oil
    add eo
  • Transfer to lip balm containers, leave the lids off and put them into a cold place to solidify. A fridge is a perfect place for cooling them quickly, they shouldn't take much more than 30 to 60 minutes.
    Once they are completely solid and cool, remove them from the fridge and pop the lids on.
    5 Lip Balm Tubes
    Transfer to lip balm containers

Notes:

Shelf Life: Providing you’re using a good quality antioxidant like vitamin e, and you don’t expose your lip balms to a significant amount of water your balms should be good for at least 12 months
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