Chapstick baby.

Oh you guys are going to love this.  LOVE THIS.  Lovie lovie lovie.

So easy.  So inexpensive.  So free of nasties.  I love this.

Don't read this if you are my sisters or my Mom, because this is a stocking stuffer I made for you.  So please ignore.

I recently paid $4 for a tube of all natural organic chapstick.  Ridiculous, I know.  I'm a fool.  Then, like a sign from above, Lindsay at Passionate Homemaking posted a recipe for a homemade variety.  Just my style.  Whoop whoop! 

Homemade Chapstick

2 Tablespoons Coconut Oil
2 Tablespoons Shea Butter
2 Tablespoons Beeswax
A dozen chapstick containers or a container of some variety

Note: I ordered all of these supplies from Mountain Rose Herbs.  They have a ton of products for a very decent price, go play around.  It's wonderful.  Oh lawdy, could I spend some serious moolaw there.

The instructions couldn't be simpler.  Melt the beeswax, then add in the shea butter and coconut oil until melted. 

Once melted, use a medicine dropper (I used a turkey baister!) to put the melted oil into the containers.  I got sloppy, fumbled over the dog, shut my fingers in the stove door, slipped in a puddle of water and then squirted a turkey baister of hot melted oil mixture on my hand.  Be careful.  Because it buuuurrrrrnnnnnns.

The mixture will solidify as it cools.
We topped these off after they started to cool, as the liquid shrinks down a wee bit.



This is wonderful.  Even Stuart loves it.  It's manley chap and girlie chap.  It's a real moisturizer - nothing fancy.  Plus, get this - it cost roughly $2.50 for 12 chapsticks....and there ain't an artificial ingredient to be found.  Can't beat that can ya?

Give it a try and let me know what you think.  Unless you are my Mom or sisters, then don't try it because I am giving you one for Christmas in your stocking...and forget you ever read this. Act surprised or I will cry.

Cheers!