Today I bring you a bit of our homemade gifting projects. Between baby snuggling and cuddling, feeding and changing, or better yet, while holding and snuggling.....we are working part-time as santa's elves.
The other night, my 13 year old daughter and I had a blast making homemade lip balm and bar lotions. They were incredibly easy to make....so we made quite a lot in the time we did it. We had fun with different essential oils as well. We used clove, eucalyptus, lavender, and left some plain which smell like honey from the beeswax.
The recipe for the lip balm and can be found here. For the lotion bars, we just poured the leftovers in the pan, (or made more using the lip balm recipe), and poured them into whatever mold we pleased. We ordered the shea butter from mountainroseherbs.com The coconut oil we had ordered a while back from Tropical Traditions (watch for sales and shipping codes on their site), and the beeswax we found locally. We used mini muffin trays and ice cube trays to mold the lotion. We were trying to find our mini gingerbread man cookie trays, but alas, we couldn't. We had freezer paper on hand, so used those to wrap up the lotions. At Wal-mart that day we had purchased plain white circular stickers, and then in the Christmas area we found these cheap little $2 kids stamps...which fit perfectly in the little stickers. How fun!
Tip: For the dropper to fill the lip balm tubes, we used one we had on hand. You might have to let the end of it sit into the hot wax mix for a bit squeezing and releasing the wax to melt it inside of it, if it were to get clogged. Ours did, but this released it again so we could continue to use it.
In the making of the lip balm, Miss Lady K found that her precious little red table had wobbly legs, so dressed to the nines as usual.....she set out to fix them. Of course, she needed those safety goggles, cuz you never know what might get in your hair, not your eyes!
{Stay tuned for more homemade crafting for Christmas gifts all week...and of course, we couldn't do without a picture of our new wee little babe, now could we? Here mom, this is for you!}
That's what works for us!
Warmly,
Joy
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