RobsCreations

A brand new batch!!! Bees wax, shea butter, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, and also mica and lip safe fragrances for Sangria and Hot Chocolate lip balms. No preservatives at all!

With the restriction of not keeping it under the direct sun light, I can tell you that my lip balm stays solid enough so that you can use it at the beach either!

I already had many new things to try, for this reason I decided to stick to the same basic recipe I've been using before (beeswax, shea butter, avocado oil and sweet almond oil). I bought lip safe micas, fragrance oils, white chapstick tubes and shrink wraps for the tubes. I've matched Hot Chocolate Mica Powder with Chocolate orange Truffles Flavor Oil , and Sangria Mica with Strawberry Flavor Oil (for materials please see my FB page). I've also prepared couple of plain ones (no mica, no fragrance). Being the first time that I used micas I didn't want to exaggerate and I ended up with pretty mild colours. Also the presence of avocado oil (which is greenish) affected the final result, but I liked it anyway.     I printed out labels and eventually sealed the lip balms with my wonderful shrink wraps (for a quick video on the wraps see my FB page)!!!

I use lip balms all over the year, several times per day and in great amounts. I keep one lip balm in my office drawer, one in my bag, one at home on the night stand... I think you got it: I'm a lip balm maniac !  Fed up of buying commercial lip balms that are expensive and full of c**p I decided to prepare one by myself. For the recipe the only suggestion I can give,  is to use beeswax ,a solid oil and liquid oil/s . . Then you'll find the recipe you like most empirically: for example you can change the proportions of different ingredients to make the lip balm harder or softer.  After having reviewed a lot of recipes I decided to invent mine: Beeswax (33%)- mild antibacterial properties.  Sweet Almond Oil (20%) - Good for dry, inflamed, or irritated skin. Contains vitamins and minerals.  Avocado Oil (14%)- Rich in vitamins A, D, & E. Moisturizing and excellent for extremely sensitive skin.  Shea Butter (33%)- Also known as the African karit...