Lip balm, lemon balm and body scrubs
Yesterday, I made the spur of the moment decision to invite a friend over to make some herbal products. Wasn’t sure what we would or could make, but thought might as well give it a go. Both of us are low income/unemployed, and so budget was important.
We spent the morning leafing through various books, exchanging recipe ideas and figuring out different herbs and ingredients. I spent most of my time trying to get my head around shampoos and hair conditioners. Michele, was researching toners and skin care products.
After a bit, we decided that we wanted to get on with something that we could do at home, and then we would go off and source other stuff. So an easy one to get started with was lip balm. We went for ‘Grapefruit conditioning lip blam’ from the Neal’s Yard Recipes for Natural Beauty. It’s really straight forward.
1g cocoa butter
9g shea butter
10 drops grapefruit essential oil
We made a bain marie, with the butters in a 
citrus squeezer in a frying pan filled with boiling water. Then poured the liquified butters in our sterlised containers. Then when it was starting to solidify we added the essential oil. It is really conditioning, but doesn’t make your lips tacky some lipsyl or stuff like that.
The body scrub was equally straight forward.
4 tbs salt
8 tbs oil (sweet almond would be good, we only had olive oil)
10 drops essential oils.
No heating with this one, but mix. It is super effective, and cheap as chips. Well worth it.
The other thing we tried was a real experiment, and I’ll let you know how that went when I’ve tried it.