Vanilla Lemongrass Lip Balm

Hey everyone!  Today I have a really cool project to show you – it’s how to make vanilla lemongrass lip balm!  This lip balm is organic, super quick and easy, fun to make, and smells absolutely lovely!  It’s great to give as gifts, or just to keep for your own use :)  So let’s get started!

Ingredients:

5 Tablespoons Coconut oil (refined)

3 Tablespoons Beeswax pellets

8-10 drops Lemongrass essential oil

1/8 teaspoons Vanilla extract

In a microwave-safe bowl, melt the coconut oil and beeswax pellets.  We melted ours on high.

Once the beeswax and coconut oil is melted together and the liquid is clear, add the essential oil and vanilla, and stir.  Then use little funnels or pipettes to pour the liquid into the lip balm tubes.  It should fill about a dozen or a few more.  

It is OK if the containers fill too high and some spills down the edges, although I don’t encourage you to waste much liquid this way :)  To help keep your tubes from falling over while filling them, we punched holes out of an egg carton and put the tubes in that.

When you first fill up the containers, the liquid will be clear-ish.  When it dries, it should become white, and thicken up to a waxy texture.  This should not take very long.

And you are done!!  You can put labels on them, or just use them as they are.  You can also make (by crocheting or sewing) little lip balm holders that can attach to purses, key chains, and other things, so your lip balm is always nearby.  Just search Pinterest and you will find a lot of ideas and ways to make them!

NOTE:  instead of lemongrass essential oil and vanilla, you can use ¼ teaspoon cocoa powder and peppermint essential oil to make chocolate mint lip balm.

Here are some random pictures I took of the progress:

This is the coconut oil we used

Thumbs up for the vanilla and lemongrass

Getting ready to fill

Filling

They're done!

Chocolate mint

Enjoy your lip balm!!! :)  And comment below to let me know what you think!