Math challenged-Making Lip balm

[momof4kids]

I'm making a lip balm with these ingredients

13g cocoa butter

25g grams olive oil

12g beeswax

5 vitamin e capsules

Flavor Oil

Flavor oils says to use 2-4%. My question is how do I know what 2-4% is?

Also, can you add to much Flavor Oil?

[MochaMama]

I'm making a lip balm with these ingredients

13g cocoa butter

25g grams olive oil

12g beeswax

5 vitamin e capsules

Flavor Oil

Flavor oils says to use 2-4%. My question is how do I know what 2-4% is?

Also, can you add to much Flavor Oil?

Add 13 plus 25 plus 12, which gives you 50g, then multiply the 50g by .02 (for 2%). So you would add 1g of flavor oil to make it a 2% mix. I do believe you can add too much flavor oil - I've never done it, but I suppose it would make people's lips burn or turn bitter or something. hope this helps.

[momof4kids]

Thanks!! That does help. You explained it very well. Off to make some lip balm!!

[MochaMama]

Thanks!! That does help. You explained it very well. Off to make some lip balm!!

I used to be a math teacher!! Glad to help!

[RobinInOR]

And to make it a bit easier to measure flavors, you can use graduated pipettes and say that 1 gram is equal to 1 ml. It's close. Scales aren't usually too acurate when you're trying to measure 1 gram, even if they go down that far.

[momof4kids]

Thanks Robin that makes it even easier!!!