Teach Soap

hi all,

after reading everyones posts for a few months now I finally decided to make my first lip balm (please bear in mind this is only for my friends and me, not for sale) and although I enjoyed making it I have a question This is my recipe:

Butter 54% (I used cocoa)
Light oils 26% (sunflower)
Wax 19% (candelila)
Preservative 1%
Flavour – dont know for sure how much I put in but it was only a few drops on a 30gr recipe
Liquid colour
And because I hated the taste I added a small amount of honey

So I melted my oil, butter, wax and honey in a make shift double boiler, stirred, struggled a little dissolving colour, added fo and preservative and poured. It now looks wonderful, ever so slightly red tinted, very hard and melts nicely in touch with skin. The one thing that bothers are the first couple of minutes after application when I feel a slight tingling on my lips. Is this normal? Have any of you experienced it? If this is unusual, any ideas as to what might have caused it?

thanks a lot!

anais

The tingling is likely from using a preservative that is not needed in anhydrous products. Not all preservatives are lip safe either. I would not use honey in a lip balm unless you use an emulsifier.

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

oh I see about honey, hadnt thought about that also I used Phenonip for my preservative, I know some people are against it but that was all I could find... lip safe? forgot to mention that colour I got said "food safe" I presume that means lip afe too, wrong?

btw off topic but thank you so much for helping with my soap recipe the other day will post a pic in another thread!


thanks
anais

Recommended use levels: for Phenonip is 0.5%-1.0%. I usually go with the lower range unless the product has proteins in it like milk. I would get rid of the honey, the preservative and use lip safe colors.

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

will do thanks soapbuddy!

You're welcome & good luck!

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