Ingredients Conversion
2.016 oz Beeswax 1.512 oz White Cocoa Butter 4.516 oz High Melt Point Shea Butter 2.016 Castor Oil 2 tea bags Green Tea or Herbal Tea 0.010 Spearmint Essential Oil 0.010 Natural Vanilla Oil
A microwave safe container A scale Pipettes Lip Balm Tubes Lip Balm Filling Tray ( optional )
57.20 grams Beeswax 42.90 grams White Cocoa Butter 128.13 grams High Melt Point Shea Butter 57.20 Castor Oil 2 tea bags Green Tea or Chamomile Herbal Tea ( optional ) 0.29 Spearmint Essential Oil 0.29 Natural Vanilla Oil
This lip balm is made in two separate steps . Start by weighing the Castor Oil into a microwave safe container . Heat gently until the oil is warm .
Add the Green Tea or Herbal Tea and allow it to sit for anywhere from 1-24 hours . Remove the tea bags . If you are not using tea to create an oil infusion , feel free to skip this step .
Add the remainder of your oils and heat gently . Once the oils have completely melted so that they are crystal clear , add the Spearmint Essential Oil and Natural Vanilla Oil . Stir well .
From here , you can either pipette the mixture into your tubes or you can use a filling tray . Filling trays are a great time saver because you can fill fifty tubes at a single time ! Since this recipe make fifty five tubes , this is a perfect option .
If you are going to pipette the lip balm into the tubes , fill the tube until you get a dome of liquid material at the top . Wax shrinks when it cools and doing this helps insure that you get a very pretty top . Fill all of your tubes making sure they are domed on the top before they cool . ( You may need to reheat your lip balm during this process . This is normal and to be expected .) Allow the tubes to cool and cap .
That is it ! You just made your first batch of natural , tasty lip balm . I wish cakes were this easy to make !