Each year around the holidays, I create a new lip balm recipe to share on both the Mountain Rose Herbs blog and with my friends and family. They make a great stocking stuffer and the people in my life enjoy seeing what I’ve come up with for the season. I love that lip balms can be made in bulk for sharing, and I love this fun and useful expression of my craft.

This hydrating lip balm calls in the emollient qualities of shea butter and pairs with the comforting scents of cocoa butter and benzoin resin for an intoxicating chocolate and vanilla aroma. When I have the time, I like to make this balm in two different colors and then marble them in the lip balm tube. This added dimension makes for a fun display of my skills and makes it feel more like cookies and cream. However, you can keep it simple if you prefer and skip the marbling effect. That is the beauty of DIY crafting—you can truly make it your own.

Cookies and Cream Lip Balm Recipe

Makes about 10 tubes.

Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp. plus 1 tsp. beeswax pastilles
• 3 Tbsp. refined sweet almond oil or other carrier oil of choice
• 1 Tbsp. organic roasted cocoa butter
• 1/2 tsp. organic refined shea butter
• 14 drops organic benzoin resin essential oil
• A few drops of Non-GMO vitamin E oil (optional, but recommended)
• Organic roasted cacao powder

Tools

• Double boiler
• Lip balm tubes
• (2) Glass pipettes (you can upcycle them from a tincture bottle)

Directions

1. Add beeswax, almond oil, cocoa butter, and shea butter to a double boiler over medium heat.
2. Once fully melted, remove from heat and add essential oil and vitamin E oil.
3. Pour half of the mixture into another small pourable container.
4. In one batch, add a pinch or two of roasted cacao powder to give it some color. Stir well.
5. Dedicate a pipette to each mixture and slowly alternate a five or so drops of each into the lip balm tube. To achieve a more attractive marbling, you’ll want the previous layer to be partially set so that the colors don’t meld and begin to look murky. Add a few drops in several tubes so that by the time you come back around with the other color, the previous color has partially solidified.
6. Allow to fully cool before placing lids on.
7. Label and share with your favorite humans!

Pro Tip: You can choose to make a whole batch of colorless lip balm, or a whole batch of chocolate-colored balm just by adding or omitting the cocoa powder. The coloring might transfer a very subtle hue to your lips but is not lip coloring.

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