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From my research so far, it looks like the majority of people prefer their flavored lip balms to be sweetened.

I know of a couple of vendors (Brambleberry being one of them) who sell lip balm sweeteners, and BB's is actually described as "sweetening oil".

Since lip balms seem to be all waxes/oils/butters, would I be correct in thinking the sweetening oil would be the way to go?

I don't know what the composition of liquid Stevia is - is it water or oil based? And if it's water-based, how would you incorporate that into a lip balm???

(I told you I'd be asking lots of questions! )

Anita

I have tried liquid stevia, does not work, just sank to the bottom and didn't incorporate b/c it is soluble in water but I guess not oil.
I tried a lip balm sweetner but it didn't work well either, similar effect, where it seemed to ball up in little droplets. I am not sure why that one didn't work, I used alot, mixed until the little droplets were so small they looked "dissolved" but no taste in lip balm.
There is a stevia infused into coconut oil that I have heard of, but then I gave up sweetening balms for now. Eventually would like to make a vanilla frosting flavored balm with taste. Yum.

If you find something that works well let me know =)

Stevia is water based. Lip balms are not. I would go with BrambleBerry's oil base sweetener.

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Irena
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Really? They want them sweetened? Were you polling people who make lip balms (like those here on the forum) or were these "joe average" consumer?

I never sweeten mine, and lip balm is my biggest seller by a mile... My customers never seem to notice that they don't "taste" sweet.

My customers prefer them sweetened. I sweeten mine lightly to enhance the flavor.

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Irena
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Most of my customers prefer them unsweetened, too. I wonder if it's a regional thing?

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I also found that Elements carries the Stevia in coconut oil, so I may get some of both to see which I like better.

Anita