This recipe may be doubled, tripled or made in as many times as you want, depending on how much/many you'd like.
Suggestion: For the first time, make the single or double. If you like it, make more.
Suggestions for essential oils: Sweet Orange, Tangerine, Lemon, Lime, Grapefruit (I prefer the pink), Spearmint, Peppermint, to name a few.
Ingredients:
* 7-8 tsp. sweet almond oil
* 2 tsp. beeswax
* 1 Vitamin E capsule (antitoxiant, not a preservative)
* 1 tsp. honey
* 5 drops essential oil
* .5% of the total amount of how much you are making of a preservative, my
preference is LiquiPar Optima (available on the net)
* Double boiler or a larger pan and a smaller one that can be suspended over the larger one, water in the larger one not to totally cover the smaller (just for melting)
* Cosmetic / balm container with lid
Melt the sweet almond oil and beeswax together in your double-boiler on the stove top, it may take a little while, stir. Remove the mixture from the stove, and pierce the vitamin E capsule with a pin or tip fo a knife, and squirt into mixture. Whisk the contents of the vitamin E capsule, honey, and flavoring, into the oil mixture, add preservative, continuing to whisk until set. Spoon your new lip gloss into a small, balm container (s)with tight lid. The honey will add enough sweetning.


Comments: 8
Marilyn, this sounds wonderful, I think I have all the required ingredients in storage (except the honey), gonna try it.
Marilyn