I have been wanting to attempt to make lipbalm, but I was slightly intimidated by the possibility of failure so I had put it off.  Well, today was my big day, and it worked well.

Now don't get confused... I know how to make the lip balm, I just wanted to put it in a tube and have it work, and it actually did....

Making lip balm is pretty much like making salves, just with more bees' wax...  I was wanting to mimic the Burt's Bees peppermint lip balm and think that I came close...

To make my balm I infused some olive oil with peppermint.  To infuse oil I put olive oil with dried peppermint in the top of a double boiler for 3 hours; then strain the spent herb from the oil.... you now have an infused oil.

I added at bit of jojoba oil to the mixture for added moisture, and then added an almost equal amount of bees' wax.  I didn't measure closely, but what I have is 2 oz olive oil, 1/2 oz jojoba oil, and 2 oz bees' wax.  I then added essential oils.  I turned the double burner off at this point since the essential oils are more affected by heat.  I added in about 10 drops of rosemary essential oil and about 20 drops or so of peppermint essential oil.  I put in 3 drops of grapefruit seed extract also as a preservative.

I then gently poured with a spoon the liquid into the tubes I had been saving.  I wish I had more tubes, but can always melt the larger containers down later on for this purpose.  I ended up with 2 lip balm tubes, 1 small pot that is 1/4 oz in size, a full 2 oz container, and half of another 2 oz container with this amount of oil.

I let is cool on the counter and in about 20 minutes I had real lip balm in a tube...  It is just the right consistency and smells great, too....