How to keep lip balms from melting

[Shoegal]

Hello lip balm makers!

 

i made lip balms with my little cousins last weekend and they melted like crazy because it's a little warm out. Do you all have any suggestions as to what we can do to keep them from melting? We used a basic recipe of shea butter, beeswax, almond oil, jojoba oil and avocado oil. I was thinking of adding more beeswax to the recipe but is there anything else that you all could recommend?

 

Thanks!

Edited June 9, 2015 by Shoegal

[Pam W]

Adding a little more BW during the hot summer months is what I do - never figured out any other way.

[SuzyK]

Adding more beeswax will help. Also a harder butter like cocoa or kokum would help as well.

[Shoegal]

Ok, thanks to you both. We will give it another try when they are back over next weekend.

 

ETA: Suzy, I have some cocoa butter but I was wondering if you could recommend a supplier for the Kokum butter. I've never used it before.

Edited June 9, 2015 by Shoegal

[TallTayl]

I sub out some beeswax for candelila. Carnauba, or other higher melt point lip safe waxes will do the same, you'll need to tinker with proportions. While more beeswax may make your stick less melt prone, it may also make the lip balm go on draggy, especially when temps begin to cool.

Cocoa butter, kokum, shea, and other butters high in stearic acid (what makes them seem harder) will have a tendency to go grainy when exposed to heat and cooling (like in purses that are in hot cars, then cool houses). Plus, harder feeling butters may not necessarily have higher melting points.

[Scented]

And I mix the waxes lol.