lip balm

a lip balm tube is a tiny thing...an oh, so useful thing...an often non-recyclable thing.  so i wanted to make some zero-waste lip balm.  there are lots of lip balm recipes out there...lots of recipes with lots of ingredients.  i have a hard time justifying making products that require me to buy more jars and cans of ingredients than the one jar of finished product that i could have just bought in the first place.  i wanted to make some lip balm and use what i already had.

after reading a number of recipes, i came to the conclusion that most of them used some combination of beeswax and oils as the main ingredients.  i had coconut oil and sweet almond oil (that i'd used as a face oil) already, and i'd wanted to buy some more beeswax for candles anyway.  

here's my simple recipe to add to the giant pile already out there:

coconut honey lip balm

1 part beeswax
2 parts coconut oil
1 part sweet almond oil

melt beeswax over double broiler (i used an enamel bowl over a pot of boiling water).  when beeswax is mostly melted, add coconut oil and stir together.  remove from heat, add sweet almond oil and stir together.  pour into small recycled container and let set.

my container (an empty candle tin i was given) can be used again and again.  this balm has a light scent of honey and coconut and works a treat.  

​love,
jane