How to make a chocolate and Mint lip balm

Make a lip balm at home is as easy as fun. And if we make it with chocolate and Mint? The combination is as attractive as beneficial to the health of our lips. Softens, tones, moisturizes and treats any type of inflammation. You have this kind of balm lipstick every day in your bag will provide you such as indispensable and attractive protection that already don't you can do without. Do you dare to do it at home?

1-What do I need to make my chocolate and Peppermint lip balm?

Cocoa Butter:

You can find it in many stores of natural beauty or health food shops. It's a butter made from the seeds of the cacao tree. Thanks to its properties, we will get more elastic, soft and supple lips. In addition to cocoa butter, for our lip balm we will need a bit of grated dark chocolate, the equivalent of a tablespoon.

Beeswax:

You can also find it in natural beauty stores, it is not expensive and you can have multiple uses in your day to day. What gives us in our lip balm? Hydration and nutrition, as well as antiseptic and antibacterial properties. Nor do we ignore that has vitamin A, great for getting healthy and attractive lips.

Essential oil of Peppermint:

We can find the essential oil of peppermint in many places: beauty shops, natural stores or health food stores... It is very suitable for our health in general and also for resources of beauty as this lip balm.
You know, moreover, that the Mint is a great antibacterial, rising up as an excellent antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and anti-microbial. What else can we losing? Simply wonderful, and in addition, this peppermint oil is nothing expensive, on the contrary.

Vitamin E Oil:

You can find it in capsules, both pharmacies and natural stores. Vitamin E protects, nourishes and is a great emollient for everything related to cosmetics for its antioxidant properties.
As we are going to use very little, you will notice that have vitamin E at home is very profitable. It is useful for our hair, our fingernails...

2-How to make my chocolate and Mint lip balm:

Quantities to obtain more or less 1.5 oz (40 g) lip balm
1 tablespoon of cocoa butter.
1 tablespoon of dark chocolate, grated (15 mg).
1 teaspoon (5 g) grated beeswax.
15 drops of peppermint essential oil.
2 drops of oil of vitamin E.

Manufacture:

You will need a small pot or a small pot to make this balm. There is who uses a small jug type for these purposes related to beauty. But don't worry, you will get well whatever it is that you use to take him to the fire. Once you've chosen the Pan, add the grated chocolate, cocoa butter and beeswax. Put it to fire until it is completely melted and you've earned a good homogeneous mixture.
Excellent. Removes this pan from the fire and add the peppermint oil and vitamin E, while little by little remove. Very easy!
Immediately pour this mixture in the little boat of glass you've chosen, until it cools. Find a container that look like that you see in the image above, since they are easier to use in every day. Take care that these jars are very clean.
Next? It allows it to cool in the refrigerator completely before plugging it. In a couple of hours you have it ready. You see what a good smell!
If you see that it has been somewhat fluid, you will have to heat it and add a little more of beeswax. On the other hand, if you see that it is very hard, we will add a little Mint essential oil.
This lip balm lasts for many weeks. You can carry in the bag all day and go to use it. It shall be you really well.
If you usually have lips very cracked and somewhat damaged, we recommend that you try the rosehip lip balm. It is very healing for these cases, since it provides very moisturizing properties that give very good results. To make it just to replace cocoa butter with white beeswax.
In this case you include chocolate or peppermint oil, instead add two drops of essential oil of roses. The result is fantastic. And you want to know one trick more? If you want to have something in color your lip balm, add during the cooking a piece of beet. It gives a very attractive result.
Try these easy and useful homemade tips.your comments will highly appreciated.