Homemade Lip Balms
I was never really a fan of store bought lip balms. They always felt waxy when I used them. So I decided to try and make my own. I use 5 ingredients, coconut oil, mango butter, vitamin e oil, beeswax and zinc oxide. The zinc oxide is there to add some sun protection. I ordered some sample flavor oils from www.brambleberry.com to try out. I tried vanilla icing, mint, lemon pound cake, rainbow sherbert and watermellon. I love the vanilla, lemon, mint and watermellon. They are fantastic. The rainbow sherbert really didn't smell like rainbow sherbert, its kind of has a hint of floral to it. But I still like it. I'm really pleased with the way these turned out. I carry at least on of them on me at all times.
I got the containers from www.elementbathandbody.com. They even have these really great shrink wraps for the tubes. I started just pouring in the tubes by hand but a lip balm tube tray to fill the tubes is so much easier. I even used the same recipe to make a homemade sunscreen that works great. I'm not a burner in the sun so this recipe might now work for those with more sun sensitive skin. Just keep that in mind when making homemade suncreen. Some people are more sensitive than others.
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