I have been experimenting with the original recipe. This time I wanted to use coconut oil to see if that would make the lip balm more creamy. Coconut oil smells really strong, so I wanted to play it up rather than try to hide it. One of my favorite things with coconut is German chocolate cake frosting. YUM. Therefore this lip balm recipe has coconut oil, vanilla, and walnut and almond flavorings in it. Roommate suggested putting organic raw cane sugar in it as well, but I didn't. Maybe I should have, though. This lip balm smells like German chocolate cake, but it doesn't taste like it!
One or more of the flavorings doesn't dissolve or disperse in the lip balm mixture. I suspect the vanilla and black walnut. Oh well. It makes some of these actually look like German chocolate cake. Almost. Here is a picture.
It gets a little messy. But it's so fun to have this at the end!
I made a few orange vanilla coconut tubes tonight as well. Yum.
