Body balm
Find out this must-have balm recipe for daily skin care
Ingredients for 75 ml
- 60 ml of a vegetable oil of your choice
- 15 g yellow or white beeswax
- Vitamin E (max 0.2% of the total volume of the mixture)
- (optional) Essential oil (max 3% of the total volume of the mixture) if you wish to add a fragrance to your balm
Material
- 1 bowl
- 1 water bath
- 1 beaker of 50 ml
- 1 scale
- (Optional) A thermometer to account for the melting point of beeswax: between 61°C and 66°C
- 1 spatula
- a pot
Preparation
- Clean and disinfect equipment, utensils, work surfaces and hands.
- Heat the vegetable oil and beeswax in a double boiler (in a container held over a pan of boiling water).
- Mix well and remove from heat source.
- (Optional) Add the essential oils according to the desired dosage and action.
- Unless you keep it in a cool place and in well sterilised jars, you can stabilise this preparation with anti-oxidant vitamin E.
- Transfer to a jar.
