After being offered a little tub of Lion Balm this Summer and after using it with great success i´ve asked for the recipe and here follows my take on it.
Lion Balm
Ingredients
500ml of good water
250ml cold pressed pure olive oil
35grs of trimms and small buds
30grs of pure beewax
15 drops of Tea Tree oil
15 drops of Lavender oil
Process used
Mix water, oil and trim in a double boiler, cook slowly on very low heat for 2-4 hours, not letting water reach a boil.
Let cool and strain out trim, squeeze hard to get last bits of oil out.
Put oil/water mix into fridge/freezer, at some point 2-6 hours later, the oil will be frozen and you can drain out the water. Very important to get no water with oil that you collect.
Then in a pan add the hard oil, heat very slowly untill it fully melts, then add the beewax you previously chopped into fine pieces, stir until wax is fully melted.
Finally add the drops of essential oils based on the oil you have used. For 500 ml you would use 50-60 drops of the essential oils, so in my case i used about 15 of each.
Very carefully and while still warm place into whatever containers you´d like to use. Let them sit&cool for a few hours.
Then it´s ready to be applied.
Stores well in fridge for up to 6 months.
Just for topical use. Do not ingest or use on open wounds.
Pictures from the process
Slow cooking the trimmings
Sieving the result
After freezing it and draining it from the water it looked like this
Adding the beewax
Melting it
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Lion Balm
Ingredients
500ml of good water
250ml cold pressed pure olive oil
35grs of trimms and small buds
30grs of pure beewax
15 drops of Tea Tree oil
15 drops of Lavender oil
Process used
Mix water, oil and trim in a double boiler, cook slowly on very low heat for 2-4 hours, not letting water reach a boil.
Let cool and strain out trim, squeeze hard to get last bits of oil out.
Put oil/water mix into fridge/freezer, at some point 2-6 hours later, the oil will be frozen and you can drain out the water. Very important to get no water with oil that you collect.
Then in a pan add the hard oil, heat very slowly untill it fully melts, then add the beewax you previously chopped into fine pieces, stir until wax is fully melted.
Finally add the drops of essential oils based on the oil you have used. For 500 ml you would use 50-60 drops of the essential oils, so in my case i used about 15 of each.
Very carefully and while still warm place into whatever containers you´d like to use. Let them sit&cool for a few hours.
Then it´s ready to be applied.
Stores well in fridge for up to 6 months.
Just for topical use. Do not ingest or use on open wounds.
Pictures from the process
Slow cooking the trimmings
Sieving the result
After freezing it and draining it from the water it looked like this
Adding the beewax
Melting it
....
and i´m alreay chasing the cassia, cinnamon and a few other essential oils. I also got a good supply of Myrrh but it´s yet on the crystal form and i´m still chasing the best way of making essential oil with it.
