My brand new batch of lip balms!

I already had many new things to try, for this reason I decided to stick to the same basic recipe I've been using before (beeswax, shea butter, avocado oil and sweet almond oil).

I bought lip safe micas, fragrance oils, white chapstick tubes and shrink wraps for the tubes.

I've matched Hot Chocolate Mica Powder with Chocolate orange Truffles Flavor Oil, and Sangria Mica with Strawberry Flavor Oil (for materials please see my FB page).

I've also prepared couple of plain ones (no mica, no fragrance).

Being the first time that I used micas I didn't want to exaggerate and I ended up with pretty mild colours. Also the presence of avocado oil (which is greenish) affected the final result, but I liked it anyway.

I printed out labels and eventually sealed the lip balms with my wonderful shrink wraps (for a quick video on the wraps see my FB page)!!!

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