My lady friends and I made fancy hand balm bars the other night. They’re fairly firm and shaped like flowers, but when you rub them gently, a little bit softly melts away to coat your hands. How? Magic, basically.
Okay fine. The process is outlined below, but if you want to try it yourself, I recommend following the same recipe we did, from Presidio Acupuncture in San Francisco.
A friend sent me this book in the mail recently. Published in 1941, it speaks the truth. (Thank you, Jen Millner)
First step to making balm bars is to find a friend with the guns to grate raw beeswax. It ain’t for sissies.
When you first pour the concoction of beeswax, coconut oil, shea butter oil, essential oils and Vitamin E into the silicone molds, the bars are disconcertingly invisible.
Preach.
They start to firm up lickity split.
Yup.
Let ’em sit on a paper towel for a bit once you’ve popped them out of the molds.
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I didn’t make very many of these, but I do sell other things on my Etsy store:
