Teach Soap

Been working on my lip gloss, and formulating from scratch has had it's ups and downs. I am now using all natural ingredients: beeswax, sweet almond, jojoba, coconut, meadowfoam, green tea, vitamin e. Just added lanolin oil and castor jelly. Love to hear some thoughts on these two.
I took out the candelilla wax and shea butter because everything went grainy on me. Thought it might be one of those. Does anyone have a basic formula recipe for using these types of ingredients?
Main problem will be going bigger. I'm just working in teaspoons at the moment. How the heck do you figure into parts and/or percentages?
Also, any thoughts on pharmaceutical grade anyhydrous lanolin? I'm trying to get the consistency of the formula to be a bit heavier or stickier. It's coming out quite light and sometimes too greasy. Upping the beeswax helped, but thought the lanolin would give it a better boost.
Thanks for allowing a newbie on board!

My lip gloss has quite a bit of castor. I noticed you use green tea. How do you incorporate it since tea is only water soluble? I tried lanolin, but it makes the balm too sticky for my taste.

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

Here's a recipe that has a lot of the ingredients that you are using
http://www.fromnaturewithlove.com/recip ... ipe_id=273

1/4 tsp meadowfoam oil
1/2 tsp jojoba oil
1/2 tsp coconut oil
1/2 tsp cocoa butter
1 tsp beeswax
1 tsp castor oil

If you absolutely wanted to use all the ingredients that you had listed, you could do something like this:
1/4 tsp meadowfoam
1/4 tsp jojoba
1/4 tsp sweet almond
1/2 tsp coconut oil
1/2 tsp cocoa butter
1 tsp beeswax
3/4 tsp castor oil
1/4 tsp lanolin (since it can get quite sticky when you use too much)

Adding the cocoa butter (or mango or some other butter) may help on not making it so light and greasy.

_________________
Please visit my blog

Once you get the formula that you like, convert it to grams. Take a measuring cup and tare your scale. Add 1 teaspoon's worth of one of your ingredients. Write down the number, then tare your scale. Take the next ingredient and weight it. Tare the scale. Then just go down the ingredient list and weigh everything. Don't forget to tare your scale after each ingredient is added. That will give you a better idea on what the weight of each is, so you can ramp up your production and get the same results each and every time.

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