Hydrate And Nourish Lips With Shea Butter

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The herbal ingredients are naturally moisturizing, antibacterial and anti-fungal.  Some people have success with using it to speed healing cold sores.  It doesn't contain petroleum or chemicals like most commercial lip products so you can feel safe using it on yourself or your kids.

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Lip Balm Ingredients

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1 cup of olive oil or almond oil

1 teaspoon comfrey leaf

1 teaspoon plantain leaf

1 teaspoon calendula flowers

1 teaspoon yarrow flowers

1 teaspoon rosemary leaf

1/4 cup beeswax pastilles

grapefruit seed extract or vitamin E oil

peppermint essential oil

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Lip Balm Instructions

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• Infuse the  herbs into olive oil.  Combine the herbs and the olive oil in a jar with an airtight lid and leave 3-4 weeks, shaking daily.

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• Strain the herbs out of the oil by pouring through a cheesecloth.  Let all oil drip out and then squeeze the herbs to get the remaining oil out.

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• Descard the herbs.

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• Hear 1/4 cup of the infused oil in a double boiler with the beeswax until melted and mixed.

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• Pour into small tins, glass jars or lip chap tubes and use on dry chapped lips.