Nourishing and Soothing Natural Lip Balm Recipe

Servings 4 chapstick tubes

Prepare your chapstick containers by ensuring they are completely wound down and twisted firmly as this helps prevent them from leaking out the bottom.
Place all the ingredients, except the vitamin e oil, into your pyrex bowl and place it into a saucepan filled with a few centimetres of hot water that is sitting over a medium-low heat.
Make sure that none of the water from the saucepan gets into your oils.
Gently stir until the ingredients have completely melted into a liquid and combined. Don't leave it sitting on the heat any longer than needed, as you don't want it to get too hot.
Remove the bowl from the saucepan and dry off the water from the outside of the bowl so it doesn’t drip onto your work surface and lip balm.
Add the vitamin E and stir to combine.
Pour your liquid lip balm into the chapstick tubes and then leave them to completely cool and become firm.
As the lip balm cools, it can shrink and retract a little. If you want to, reserve a small amount of the melted lip balm. Wait about 5 minutes as the balm cools and hardens, then top each one up.

Tips:

You can use US or UK measurements, it is not essential to be perfectly precise!
It's important that you don't overheat the oils, as this can destroy their nutrients and therefore lose its efficacy.
If you live in a hot climate, you may need to add more wax to ensure a firmer consistency.
Before pouring the lip gloss into the chapstick containers, make sure that they have been completely wound down and twisted firmly as this helps prevent them from leaking out the bottom.
If you don't have a pouring tray, then hold your tubes together with a rubber band for easier filling.
To extend the life of your lip balm, store it in the fridge until you need it.