Bleu Chamomile Vanilla Lip Balm

Ingredients

• ALL Ingredients are sustainably wild harvested, cultivated certified organic, biodynamic, or grown without chemicals
• cocoa butter (Theobroma cacao)
• beeswax (Cera alba)
• coconut oil (Cocos nucifera)
• Vanilla bean infused jojoba
• castor oil (Ricinus communis)
• Vitamin E oil
• Essential oils of German Chamomile (Matracaria recutita), Blue Tansy (Tanacetum annuum), and Lavender (Lavendula angustifolia)

Instructions

Hand poured in small batches, each tin is approx. .413 oz by weight.

$8.00 / tin
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Calming and cooling, blue chamomile oil (aka German Chamomile) and blue tansy are among the most supportive for a healthy inflammatory response in Nature’s medicine chest.  They are highly anti-inflammatory in general making them great for muscular aches and pains, skin inflammation, and helpful to reduce inflammation from allergies — the blue oils also have anti-histamine properties.

This is a moisturizing and healing lip balm for your lips with a light vanilla chamomile flavor.  It is a kid safe recipe and great to use year round

Why does my lip balm have white dots on it? It’s called blooming.

Do not worry – the lip balm is good to use and still makes your lips feel good and moisturized.

Since our lip balms are made with natural unrefined cocoa, shea, and mango butters, sometimes you can see that your lip balm has white spots on it. This is called “blooming”. It is not uncommon for products that are made with high percentage of natural butters to appears grainy. This is not a reflection on the quality of the butter, but rather a reaction to changing temperature the lip balm is exposed to.

There are various fatty acids within body butters. These fatty acids melt and cool at different rates and temperature leading to graininess, in finished goods or fresh butter, this process is also known as crystallization. Crystallization may take place right away, or it may only show up several months after the product has been manufactured – particularly if the product was exposed to temperature changes while being used, stored or transported. If the the process of cooling down is too slow, the fatty acids may crystallize into clumps or look grainy. 

When I make lip balms I temper them quickly (cool them in the freezer) so the fatty acids cool down fast which will prevent grains from forming and the lip balms will be smooth. However during shipping or the temperature of the where they are stored between your uses the butters will melt and slowly re-solidify.

I only utilize clean ingredients that are beneficial to you, and avoid using ingredients that are unnecessary or problematic. Due to the absence of any chemicals, emulsifiers, or stabilizers in our lip balms, it is rather sensitive to the effects of heat. When lip balms are left in handbags or anywhere that are warm, it may melt and re-solidify into a gritty consistency after it has cooled. This is the outcome of melting cocoa, shea, or mango butter at a low temperature and letting it cool at a slow rate, which causes it to crystallize. Since the butter has larger molecules than coconut oil, it melts and solidifies at a different rate than coconut oil does. This is one reason why many lip balms products on the market typically contain additional synthetic chemicals to stabilize the products —and ours do NOT.

Grainy lip balms are super moisturizing and pose no health risk, and they dissolve when coming into touch with the skin. Don’t worry if this happens to your lip balm; it’s still good to use! Lip balm with a grainy texture is still effective.