Making lip balm

The wax crafting iron became useful for another craft, making chocolate lip balm.   It was a happy thing to do after a day at fitness, and before my body reacted to all the heavy lifting.
These first two pictures show what I made last week, and it came out as hard as a candle!

Melting down a tablespoon of beeswax, a teaspoon of coconut oil and four Ghirardelli chocolate chips.
I'm being brand specific because these chips are huge compared to others. I put the contents of a geltab of vitamin E oil in it, as per The Formula Book.

The chocolate "candle"!  Stick a wick in it!

So, I put my chemist's hat on, and reformulated.  I dug out the cake of too hard wax, and remelted it in the only tiny can I had left, as the remake was obviously going to be too much for the original tiny tin.

I  had enough of the new formula to fill the original tin, plus another very small recycled metal container.  My final formula was the original mix with an iced teaspoonful of Grape seed oil, a little bit more than a teaspoon of the coco butter, remelted. 

The new formula smells really nice, is very yummy and smooth on the lips, with just the right amount of pick up (out of the tin) with a fingertip.

So, readers, you can put that old iron to use other than as a doorstop.