Today I'm gonna show you how to make your very own vegan chapstick!
It's quick, it's easy, and its completely cruelty-free.
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Now today, I am going to be assisted by...
Well, we will check in with her later. Let's look at the ingridients!
So here are our ingredients. There's really only three.
We've got candelilla wax, the reason that most chapsticks aren't vegan is that they're made with beeswax.
Shea butter. And coconut oil. And then we got a table spoon measure,
an eyedropper, and twelve containers for our chapstick.
Then we're gonna be using a pot and a bowl. I'm gonna be using this as a make-shift doubleboiler.
But if you have a dubbelboiler, then use that.
So I've got water in my pot. I'm gonna be starting at boiling.
Um, and this is how we're gonna melt the wax. I'm gonna be putting it in this bowl.
And just setting it over the boiling water, and it creates a double boiler.
So, your first step is gonna be to melt your wax. The amounts of each ingredient are the same.
We're gonna have 2 tbs of wax, 2 tbs of shea butter, and 2 tbs of coconut oil.
So, this recepie is to make 12 chapstick containers.
So you can kind of divide it if you want to make less, or multiply it if you want to make more.
So, step 1: I'm gonna be putting in my 2 tbs of wax. So the two tbs of wax are in there. You can see
it's starting to melt a bit. But you wanna get the wax to melt completely
before you put in the other ingredients.
Ok, so our wax has melted. So the next step will be to add the shea butter and coconut oil.
2 tbs of shea butter.
And then our 2 tbs of coconut oil.
There's our shea butter and our coconut oil. Just gonna kinda help stir it around, get it all to melt.
I enjoy the natural scent of this combination, but if you want you can add a couple drops of essential oils
for the perticular scent that you desire.
This recipe also works as a hard lotion bar, so you can pour the finished liquid into an ice cube tray,
or whatever shape you want. And use it to moisturize your whole body.
It's getting close to being melted here. Ok, now that it's nice and clear we're gonna start taking it up in the dropper
and put it in to the lipbalm cases. When you get towards the top, you can accually add a couple more drops
then you would think so you can have it kinda pop over on the top because as it hardens it's gonna shrink.
And I keep doing it over and over untill they're all full.
You don't need me to film that.
So, here they are - filled. And that amount accually allowed me to fill two of my old ones,
so that accually made 14. Then you wanna just leave them here to harden.
If you're being really impatient, you can put them in the fridge and they will harden a bit faster.
And then you're done! These make really great gifts for people.
If you wanna get really creative you can print out your own label and put it on the container.
Quick note on clean-up: In order to get the wax out of the bowl and the dropper that you used
you're gonna wanna use the rest of the hot water. And do not put it in the dishwasher.
Now that we're done, let's go see where our assitant is!
Ooby! You missed the show! What have you been doing?
You missed the WHOLE thing!
I forgive you.
You better look away.
Now you come to the kitchen, when everything is done!
Come here!
What do you think of what we made? It is doggy safe.
Let me do you're lips! You look beautiful.
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