doTERRA Chapstick (Burt's Bees)

By gwendee1

Ingredients

• 20 grams Beeswax (about 3 Tablespoons of the whiter beads, but you can use yellow too)
• 20 grams Cocoa Butter or Coconut Oil (about 2 Tablespoons)
• 45 grams Sunflower or Coconut Oil (1/4 cup)
• 8 drops Vitaman E oil (4 vitamin E oil tablets worth)
• 2 drops DoTerra Rosemary essential oil
• 12 drops DoTerra Peppermint essential oil
• optional: Pea-sized drop of Lanolin (don’t use much of this or your balm will taste bad)

Preparation

Step 1

I added the ingredients in grams so that if you have a little scale you can get accurate & exact measurements (which is best) but if you don’t have a scale just use measuring cups & spoons as accurately as possible.

I never realized how extremely easy it is to make chapstick! Basically all you need to do is melt it all and pour into your containers! Easy peasy.

Step one – measure out all your ingredients except essential oils into a cup or pan. If you don't have liquid vitamin E oil, you can cut open vitamin E capsules & squeeze out the oil into the cup.

Next, melt all the ingredients, and stir. The beeswax will be the last thing to melt, but it was all melted within a couple of minutes.

Once it’s all melted add your essential oils and mix it up.
Then test it out, to make sure it has the flavor you want by letting a tiny bit cool on your finger. Rub it on your lips and check if its just right. If you feel it needs more mint or other flavorings, add more!
Then use a dropper to add the melted goodness into chapstick tubes or small containers. (If it cools too quickly before you’re done filling your tubes, just heat it until it melts again.)
Then voila! You are done. Just let them all cool.

I had more liquid than I had tubes so I poured the rest into a small container and let it cool. I will stick this one in my bathroom and use it everyday, it will probably last me a whole year!
I cannot believe how easy it was to make my favorite Burt’s Bees Lip Balm from home.

WORTH THE COST? YES as each tube costs $0.12 each to make + about $0.17 for tube/caps vs. $3.00 Burts Bees Lip Balm at store

WORTH THE TIME? YES – super quick, easy and enjoyable!