Makes: 20 (easily halved or quartered)

Ingredients

1. 28g beeswax
2. 20g solid cocoa butter
3. 50ml almond oil
4. 50 drops flavour essence (I used 25 drops lime and 25 drops coconut)

You can find all of these ingredients online really easily. This is a great website, they even sell their own pre-packaged kits.

Equipment

1. Heatproof or stainless steel bowl
2. Saucepan
3. Measuring jug / scales
4. Pipette (optional)
5. Containers of your choice, mine are 4.5ml

Method

1. Measure out all ingredients, except flavouring
2. Melt together in a bain marie
3. Take off the heat and drop in your flavour essence
4. Transfer mixture to a jug or container with a pouring spout, if needed
5. Pour carefully into your chosen containers
6. The mixture will solidify very quickly so it’s ok to re-melt if needed
7. For accuracy top up with a pipette, I didn’t have one and made a mess with a few!
8. Leave to stand for a few minutes before putting the lids on, and 24hrs before using them.

Quick warning: You’re free to use these lipbalms yourself (obviously!) or gift to other people, but if you’re hoping to sell them, as with all cosmetics, you need to have a safety certificate. Some companies sell pre-certified mixtures that you can melt down and re-package to sell, but I think that kind of takes all the fun out of it.

How easy was that? Have fun mixing up crazy flavours!