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Title: Lip Balm Recipe
Post by: 40 Acre Bees on June 08, 2016, 04:45:40 pm

We seem to have misplaced our recipe for lip balm...  We know it had the following ingredients does anyone have the quantities (not for 500 tubes though)

Ingredients:  Beeswax - Honey - Almond oil - Peppermint (essential Oil) - Vitamin E

hopefully someone can help us out.  Thanks in advance  :yes:

Title: Re: Lip Balm Recipe
Post by: brooksbeefarm on June 08, 2016, 10:15:57 pm

Riverbee has several posted on the forum. I would like to find the way to get honey to mix with the oils in the recipes? Anyone else have that problem? Jack

Title: Re: Lip Balm Recipe
Post by: Bakersdozen on June 09, 2016, 07:47:52 am

Here is one I found in a book by Petra Ahnert. I think it's a little different than what you are looking for, but maybe it will help.
Basic Lip Balm
27g yellow beeswax
26g virgin coconut oil
26g sweet almond oil
1g castor oil
8g lanolin
.1g Vitamin E oil
.1g rosemary oleoresin extract(ROE)
.2g lip-safe flavor oil

This recipe is meant for lip balm tubes.

Title: Re: Lip Balm Recipe
Post by: Bakersdozen on June 09, 2016, 07:53:45 am

Quote from: brooksbeefarm on June 08, 2016, 10:15:57 pm

Riverbee has several posted on the forum. I would like to find the way to get honey to mix with the oils in the recipes? Anyone else have that problem? Jack

Jack, I came across this recipe for chapped lip balm in a book by Elaine C. White.
1 tablespoon shredded beeswax
1 tablespoon petroleum jelly
1 teaspoon honey
1 tablespoon lanolin
3-4 drops of essential oil
Melt the wax, lanolin and petroleum jelly in a microwave.  Add the honey and essential oil. Essential oil of peppermint, eucalyptus, wintergreen, and camphor slightly numb painful lips. Stir the mixture until it cools.

Title: Re: Lip Balm Recipe
Post by: riverbee on June 09, 2016, 12:22:23 pm

"We know it had the following ingredients does anyone have the quantities (not for 500 tubes though)"

.................... :D

check these recipes out, see if any fit what you are looking for..........
Lip Balm Recipes (http://www.worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/index.php/topic,71.msg203.html#msg203)

jack, i have never mixed honey in lip balm, i hear tell that it is difficult as it separates out, so i haven't messed with it.

Title: Re: Lip Balm Recipe
Post by: brooksbeefarm on June 09, 2016, 03:28:20 pm

That's the problem :yes:, i would not have known it if i didn't have clear tubes where i could see the separation of the honey in the tube. Jack

Title: Re: Lip Balm Recipe
Post by: riverbee on June 09, 2016, 10:35:54 pm

jack, what is your recipe, maybe now i have the time to figure this out?