Vanilla Lavender Lip Balm

This vanilla lavender lip balm is made with literal vanilla extract beans and dried lavender flower , which makes it smell astonishing ! Homemade herbal mathematical product are some of my favorite things to make . It ’s so substantial to make an all natural herbal lip balm , unction , or herbal remedy with veridical ingredients from slit . It ’s easy than you would think , too !

Vanilla Lavender Infused Oil

The first step in this recipe , just like in myherbal salve recipe , is to make aninfused herbal oil . This meter it will be made with dried vanilla extract noggin and lavender .

You ’ll take about 1/2 cupful of infused petroleum for the lip balm recipe , so keep that in mind when making the infuse oil . Put somedried lavender flowersand one or twowhole vanilla bean plant , carve up down the middle , into a jounce .

Then fill the jounce with acarrier crude , or blend of oils , of your choice . I like to utilise adequate parts of olive oil , coco palm fossil oil , and sweet almond oil .

Cover the jolt and let it ride in a coolheaded and obscure position to infuse for at least a workweek or two , if not longer .

When I make my infused oils , I will often put them in myExcalibur dehydratorfor several hours a few times at a modest temperature ( around 110 degree ) , which helps to extract the herbal goodness without make the oil too red-hot .

When it ’s done you will have an amazing smell infused oil , which will be the floor for this vanilla lavender lip balm .

Vanilla Lavender Lip Balm Recipe

When you are quick to make the lip balm , reach out the lavender and vanilla dome from the oil with a fine mesh sieve .

make a jury-rigged double boiler by put a small bowl or a glass Pyrex measuring cup over a pot with about an inch of simmer water .

Put the vanilla lavender vegetable oil into the small bowl or glass measuring cup , then add the beeswax . passion until the beeswax all dissolves into the fossil oil , arouse occasionally .