Everything is better with glitter! Lip balm with attitude

My daughter always asks for those flavored lip balms. You know the ones, marketed for kids. The ingredients list always makes me cringe. So over the years I've made her some lip balms and she accepted them-reluctantly. However she still wanted those "cool" ones. So recently we made tinted balm with sparkle and she is head over heels!!

Here is the recipe we created:

You will need:
6-7 lip balm tubes
1/2 tablespoon beeswax
1 tablespoon Shea butter
1 tablespoon coconut oil
2 capsules or 1/2 tsp vitamin E oil
1 teaspoon mica powder- approximately
10-15 drops essential oils of your choice (like lavender, or lavender and peppermint)

First melt your beeswax, coconut oil and butter in a double boiler.

Once melted remove from heat and add vitamin E, mica powder and essential oils. Stir the mica powder in really well! It does sink to the bottom. 

Gather your lip balm tubes with a rubber band for ease of filling. Slowly pour the balm into your tubes. Let it cool completely before capping.

Add cute labels or use decorative tape.

This is seriously so much fun. There are so many natural color combinations and essential oils you can choose from. If you try it out, let me know what you make. I hope you have fun with it!

Blessings!

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November to Remember

It was early November and I had been battling a bad unexplained rash on the back of my son's thighs for over 11 months. I had been to a two different doctors and had an appointment for a specialist in December. I was feeling discouraged.

The first doctor said it was a diaper rash. She said to treat it with a diaper rash cream. I had a hard time believing it was a diaper rash since it was just outside the diaper area, more on his thigh. I tried to avoid the use of steroid creams and tried every non-steroid cream I could find. I tried calendula, oatmeal, zinc oxide, etc. 

Finally after about 6 months I took him to a second doctor who said it was a contact dermatitis most likely from the diaper. He said to try different diaper brands. I tired 5 different diaper brands, the most expensive cloth like organic ones. Some seem to make it even worse. I finally resorted to trying hydrocortizone and anti-fungal creams. All the time it continued to grow and spread. Nothing seemed to help. I had made an appointment for a dermatologist fearing that this was going to lead to lifelong scarring.

One day a friend asked me what essential oils were used on eczema. At that moment I realized even though I did not have a diagnosis, I could try oils! I could not believe I had not tried them previously. I felt really foolish for failing to realize this earlier but I immediately started (while doing all the self bashing inside my head).

I knew going into it I should not expect immediate results, after all the rash had been there for over 11 months. Well, I am very happy to say (and show) that in less than 2 weeks it is pretty much gone. I can still see some little lines (they do not show in the picture) so I continue to use the roll on but I am very happy with the results so far.

I thank God every day for bringing these into my life. I was skeptical on the use of essential oils for medical treatments when I first started. However, so many times I have been amazed at what they have done and continue to do in our lives.

How about you? Have you had something unexpected happen when you tried a "new" way to heal?

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