Make Your Own Organic Lipbalm

Yes you can make your own lip balm from scratch, and i mean from plants to Jar step by step.
(instructions to obtain ingredients are in my other instructables, so these is making it form ingredients.
What you need
All Natural and it works better then anything you can buy lasts longer, and very minty

1 Ounce Beeswax
(obtained from bee, wax extraction bee keeping in other instructable)

1 Ounce Sunflower Seed OIl
(Grow your own cooking oil explains how to obtain sunflower seed oil from growing harvesting sunflowers)

1 Teaspoon of Mint OIl
(Mint Propagation and essential Oil Distillation explained in a upcoming instructable)

Small Glass Jars

Two Pots or Metal bowls
One Bigger then the other or a double boiler

Cooking Thermometer

Whisk

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Step 1: Step One: Double Boiler

Ok if you know what a double boiler is, Great rig one up.
Now if you don't its two pots placed on top of each other, The bottom or the bigger pot is filled with water
The top is set into the water and let float there.
These are used to cook thing thing with out the risk of burning them with direct heat.
Your Lip balm will be cooked in the top pot