Chocolate- Coconut vegan lip balm notes

I made some and it was awesome, but I don't seem to have kept the recipe - arch!

The other lip balm that worked is:
1 part beeswax
1/2 part shea butter
2 parts grapeseed oil (some of it is the calendula oil)
1 tsp sweet almond oil

Last time I replaced the beeswax with cocoa butter which is really hard like beeswax, but less waxy. And I replaced at least some of the other oils with coconut oil. But did I then add grape seed oil or sweet almond oil? I dunno! It had this amazing smell of chocolate coconut, without having any fragrance, so it's not irritating or overly sweet. And I just used up my last one. Sad face.

On the upside I don't have enough coconut oil to try it today, so I'll have to make body butter instead! And I've been really looking forward to trying a body butter! But I thought I'd write down what I can remember so that the next time I try this (probably later this week) I might have a shot at replicating the one that I love!

Found it! Chocolate Coconut lip balm

It's not vegan, it has beeswax in it. But here:

1/3 c Cocoa butter - mix of refined and unrefined because that's what I have. But unrefined is fine and it smells like chocolate
2/3 cup bees wax
1/3 c grapeseed oil, sweet almond oil
1/2t vitamin E oil
1/3c coconut oil

I remember now that it's the unrefined cocoa butter that smells so good. And of course those last oils could be nearly any liquid oils.

So basically the recipe could be:

1c solid stuff (cocoa butter, beeswax, etc)
1/3c liquid oils
1/3c coconut oil

I think I want to play with this so that it has more coconut oil and a little less liquid oil and see what happens.

Anyway, on to body butter!

Body butter and other recipes

recipe one: 2 parts coconut per 1 part mango and 1 part shea.

Here's one that uses emusifing wax, which I haven't used and don't have, but I like the look of it: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-body-butter

How to make an easy lavender oil: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-lavender-oil (for tomorrow!!)

Goat's milk soap: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-goats-milk-soap
(I'm not a fan of bar soap myself, but I love make it and that recipe should have a nice lather to it.)

Honey face mask: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-use-honey-for-skin
Maybe I'll do this one this afternoon

I love salt scrubs and this is a really reasonable recipe: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-salt-scrub

So I think my new shopping list includes jojoba oil, glycerin, unrefined cocoa butter and the rose and cucumber oils for my favorite bath salts. And of course I need a lot more coconut oil.