Burt's Bees Chapstick DIY

I love Burt's Bees. Who doesn't, right? It's akin to kittens and chocolate. You love it or you love it. Normally I'm DIYing things because I can do it cheaper and better, but I'm recreating Burt's Bees for a whole other reason: They discontinued my favorite flavor. 

Anyone else ever had the clove oil Burt's Bees chapstick? It's phenomenal. It tingles, smells nice, and is super ultra healing like all of their chapsticks are. 

So, to get to the root of this, I emailed corporate Burt's Bees. Here's their response:

Very disappointing. I took to Ebay to find some clove oil chapstick.

This was really disappointing, too. If I want this chapstick, it'd be a million dollars, but I guess on the bright side, it's free shipping...

DIY TIME
Since I'm never getting my paws on real Burt's Bees, I'm making it myself!

RECIPE:

• 3 tbsp beeswax pellets
• 2 tbsp coconut oil (or cocoa butter)
• 1/4 cup sunflower oil
• 8 drops of Vitamin E oil
• 9 drops of peppermint essential oil
• 12 drops of clove essential oil

You also need some chapstick tubes! I went on Amazon to buy an entire bag of these bad boys. 100 for $20! 

DIRECTIONS:

This was super easy to do. First, you want to set up a double boiler in your kitchen. Here's mine: 

Simple method. All you do is place a glass Pyrex bowl in a pot of boiling water and let the steam melt everything! This is very important to do because the direct heat of melting all the oils in a pot will make a huge mess and burn all of your fancy oils. 

In the photo above, I've already added all of my ingredients except the essential oils. Heating essential oils will lead to a degradation of the scents which totally defies the point of doing this at all. 

After it's all melted, add your essential oils! I then used a chopstick to dip in the lovely mixture and test it out. Once it's the texture you like, try rubbing some of it on your lips and see if there are enough essential oils in it for your taste! For example, my chapstick tingles a little bit because of the peppermint, so test it out and see if there's enough tingle for your life!

Here's where I destroyed our kitchen and made a huge mess doing this.

Pouring the oils into the tubes was the most difficult part of this entire endeavor. We tried pouring them into the tubes with a funnel, but then if we poured too quickly, it spilled everywhere. It was a hassle. Invest in an eye dropper if you're going to do this. Seriously. This was an issue. 

FINAL RESULT 

My chapstick finally dried, and it turned out really well! It feels almost exactly how the Burt's Bees clove oil chapstick felt, and I'm so proud that I was able to make it myself! Now I don't have to pay $99 for some tubes of chapstick.