This candy cane lip balm is a quick project that is perfect for last minute gifts, including in wellness baskets, or using as a stocking stuffer or hostess present. It’s also just as enjoyable to use, as it is to gift. Lip balm make great last minute gift projects, as they only take a few hours to make and you can make several tubes of balm at a time.
With Christmas just around the corner, make this sweet candy cane lip balm to add to stockings or gift baskets. It tastes just like candy canes but it’s sugar free, made with natural beeswax, cocoa butter, and extra virgin olive oil, to combat winter dryness, chapped lips, and seasonal discomfort.
Create a double boiler using a glass measuring cup and a saucepan.
Add the cocoa butter, extra virgin olive oil, and beeswax to the glass measuring cup.
Simmer gently over medium heat until the beeswax melts. Remove from the heat. And remove the glass measuring cup from the saucepan.
Directions:
Create a double boiler using a glass measuring cup and a saucepan.
Add the cocoa butter, EVO, and beeswax to the glass measuring cup. Simmer gently over medium heat until the beeswax melts. Remove from the heat. And remove the glass measuring cup from the saucepan.
Stir briefly to combine the beeswax and the oils. Add in the essential oils by the drop, stirring to incorporate fully.
Stir while the mixture is cooling just until the mixture becomes opaque. Spoon or pour into lip balm tubes.
Label.
If you don’t have the Candy Cane essential oil blend, you can substitute peppermint, or a combination of peppermint, lavender, and sweet orange. But the Candy Cane blend really smells and tastes like candy canes and increases the gift-appeal of these lip balms.
For a printable candy cane lip balm recipe try this one:
These essential oils are fabulous for skin care essential oils, but they also work really well in my essential oil diffuser, filling my kitchen with Christmas memories. (Someone should make a sugar cookie diffuser blend, all the feels and none of the calories, don’t you think?)
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