Teach Soap

I posted a lip balm tutorial on my blog. http://gingersgardensoaps.blogspot.com/ ... d-and.html
That should get you started experimenting. You can sub any liquid oil for another liquid oil, any solid oil for another solid oil. Pure vanilla absolute is very hard to dissolve in oil. I would try infusing a liquid oil with a vanilla bean pod. Fruit extracts are normally only water soluble. I think part of the ingredients is creative advertising and listing.

Candelilla Wax is a very hard wax with a high melt point. Which leads me to believe any ingredients after the wax are used at a very small % at less then 1%.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Like Irena said, you can infuse vanilla bean pods in oil, I find that the scent & flavor of the vanilla comes through best if you do a heat infusion.

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Genny

Because of the INCI requirements, whenever an "extract" is listed, it is quite possible that it is just the herb/plant/flower/spice/shrub infused into an oil(s). I have a great herbal infusion lip balm where I infuse about 6 healing herbs into my oils. The ingredient panel won't even fit onto the lip balm label because of the way the infusions, aka extracts, are written. My guess would be that this is what their "Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract" is.

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Tammy

I only use a lip gloss, I buy it from a near by store.