Luscious Lips

Look out girlfriends, there will be some lip balm coming your way soon! The girls and I had a fun afternoon of decorating tubes of homemade lip balm. We made 2 scents, vanilla and lemonade. There are a ton of recipes on the web for lip balm so pick one and give it a go. It was easy and fun. I think the best part of the whole process was making the labels. We made some special labels for some special people too.

In the background is my latest moisturizing bar. It is recipe #3. The first recipe was rather mushy even when fully cured. It is still a delightful bar but not as hard as I had hoped. I played with the soap calc a little further and developed recipe #2 which is below (in green). I added extra castor oil and some clay to make a shaving bar. It is delightful to shave with and smells divine. The recipe definitely made a firmer bar. While I have not sampled recipe #3, it smells heavenly. It is a combination of basil citrus and strong green tea fragrance oils. It is very firm and I cannot wait to try it out.

Here are the recipes for your soaping pleasure...
Moisture Bar #2 (shaving bar)
12 oz. coconut
4 oz. castor
10 oz. olive
12 oz. palm
5 oz. shea
5 oz. sunflower
18 oz. water
6.6 oz. lye
At trace add 2 tbsp. bentonite

Moisture Bar #3 (CPOP)
13 oz. coconut
4 oz. corn
.5 oz. castor (added at trace)
12 oz. palm
4 oz. soy
2.5 oz. cocoa butter
10 oz. olive
2 oz. shea
18 oz. water
192 g lye