This week I tried another recipe from the currentBook Clubselection , A Green Guide to Natural Beauty , Hemp & Honey Lip Balm .
For geezerhood now I ’ve been nominate manuka honey lip balm because of the over-the-top healing prop of the magical gilded goo . Hailing from New Zealand , manuka honey come from bee that pollinate theLeptospermum scoparium , a bush or lowly tree that can grow up to 4 m tall with profuse star - mold blossom . Manuka honey is claimed to have anti - bacterial , anti - fungous , and anti - microbial property . Applied locally , it is said to encourage healing and cut inflammation , with some informant say it even prevents or heals the dusty sore computer virus . While I ’m not capable to quantify these claims , I can say that it ready a darn good lip balm and that ’s good enough for me .
in the raw manuka love is rated using “ Unique Manuka Factor ” ( UMF ) that rates the antibacterial component . I generally use UMF 16 + as that is the highest that is trade in these part .
Now the al-Qur’an clearly states that this recipe makes a softer brim balm , suitable little pots not tubes , but since I only had subway system I added more beeswax and some carnauba wax . It is still a piece soft but hold up up OK in the tubes if you do n’t boom it on your lip like my dear husband did this morning . The sorry that ’ll find if you are a bit rocky is you ’ll get a bit too much apply but it will still take its shape .
Hemp & Honey Lip Balm
Ingredients :
Equipment
Instructions :
1 . unthaw the beeswax , carnauba wax , cocoa butter & shea butter in the double steam boiler along with the almond oil .
2 . Add hemp oil and honey and stir until liquid . The formula note that as honey is not soluble with crude oil , it wo n’t all dissolve with heating and needs to be mixed with the Milk River frother .
3 . Remove from heat , contribute essential oils , and coalesce with the frother while the salmagundi cool but still pourable .
4 . Pour into subway system and allow for untouched to set up .
Review 4.5/5
Almost complete ! This formula is really wonderful and made a very moisturizing lip unction that feels silky and go a really long metre , hours actually .
There were two small issues that added up to the half decimal point from perfect military rank . First , the hemp oil aroma is , well , hempy . Yick . So that ’s why I added the essential crude . I wish the dear had a strong aroma but … the second progeny was that they love really does n’t aggregate that well . I ’m somewhat used to this from make lots of honey lip balm . In my experience the dearest sinks to the bottom of your jug , even with mixing constantly , and by the time you fill the last tube it ’s just a mucilaginous dear mess ( exhibit below ) . There is definitely some dear in the rest of the tubes though , you could tell just by work out your lips .
There are also a few other interesting looking formula in the book : a bee - free version , hot chocolate butter lip balm peg , and chocolate orange lip pots ( um , yummy ) . Please drop me a short letter if you try out any of these , I ’d love to hear all about it .
former recipe prove from this book were theApricot Face Scrub ( 2/5 ) and Mango Lime Body Butter ( 5/5 ) .
Please check out theGarden Therapy Book Club pagefor more info on our next book , Weekend Handmade .
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