Over the weekend of 5/18/13, we made a batch of citrus-coconut lip balm, and used up the small amount of beeswax that we had. The beeswax came from Hive B's
errant piece of wax that we found and some small bits of burr comb that we found in the two hives during
inspection #2.
The recipe for the lip balm was pretty simple and included the following components. I forget the exact amounts (if interested, post a comment, and I'll dig up the recipe):
- Beeswax
- Coconut oil
- Sunflower oil
- Drops of pure orange peel extract (or lime or lemon or etc.)
- Drops of vitamin E
After these were melted together in a double boiler, they then cooled in an old lip balm container that we cleaned out and sterilized. I'm not a big user of lip balm, so I can't comment on how it turned out. It seemed to moisten the lips fine. It didn't have a lot of flavor or scent, so I might consider increasing the amount of orange peel extract and/or coconut oil in the future.
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