Essential Healthy Living: DIY Cocoa-Mint Lip Balm

This is my new favorite recipe! I’ve been making regular lip balm for years, and I love it, but this is a very different one. The cocoa butter gives it a chocolate smell and a super smooth feel.

You will need:

DIY Cocoa-Mint Lip Balm with Essential Oils

3 Tablespoons chopped raw cocoa butter (9 waffers of this brand) {Amazon link }
3 Tablespoons almond oil {Amazon link}
1.5 Tablespoon organic white beeswax {Amazon link}
3-4 drops vitamin E oil {Amazon link}
18 drops Young Living Peppermint essential oil
14 - 16 .15oz Lip Balm Tubes {Amazon link} or {Amazon link or {Amazon link}
Pipettes {Amazon link}
Double boiler or saucepan {Amazon link}

Instructions

Chop the cocoa butter into small pieces. In a saucepan or a double boiler, heat the beeswax, almond oil and vitamin E oil on low to low-medium until the beeswax is mostly melted. Add the cocoa butter and continue to heat until all the items are melted. Stir constantly as they melt. Once everything is melted, remove from heat and add your essential oil and stir. You can play around with the recipe and find how many drops work for you.

Using the pipette (like a turkey baster), fill each of the lip balm tubes to the very top. This recipe will make about approximately 14 - 16 lip balms. Let the lip balms sit out and cool for a few hours until they are harden. Then place the caps on the tubes. This recipe is super easy and these make great gifts, party favors, giveaways, etc. If you don’t like almond oil, you can use any carrier oil you’d like such as grapeseed, jojoba, etc. Just be aware of the smell of the carrier oil can affect the overall smell of your cocoa-mint recipe.

This recipe is perfect for lip balm tubes. If you’d like to make them in lip balm containers (the ones where you use your finger to dip it out), then you’d want to use a little less beeswax to make it more creamy and softer.