‘Tis the season for lip balms!
Here is our recipe for Vegan Coconut Lime Lip Balm:
- 29.07g Coconut oil (51%)
- 14.25g Calendula herbal oil (25%)
- 13.11g Candelilla wax (23%) **You could go down to about 20%. At 23%, this formulation works best in tins. 18-20% would be good in lip balm tubes.
- 1 g Distilled Lime essential oil (2%)
I use this scale for making small batches like this. It works incredibly well and is good to have if you are planning on making your own body care products!
To Make:
- Using a double boiler, place the candelilla wax in first.
- Once the candelilla wax is almost melted, stir in coconut and calendula oil into the wax.
- Stir mixture with a stainless steel fork to ensure all ingredients are well combined.
- Once all ingredients are melted, remove pot from double boiler. Dry bottom of pot off.
- Stir in essential oil.
- Pour into 1/2 ounce and/or 1 ounce tins. (I like to use the 1 ounce tins. You can get tins on amazon or at sks packaging.)
- Label. *For 1 ounce tins, I use this label.
