SoapGrove
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How much essential oil (not flavor oils) can I put in 1lb of melt and pour lip balm? Thank you in advance!
How much essential oil per lb of melt and pour lip balm?
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Well, I've not used pre-made lip balm base, but when I make my own from scratch, I use about 1% essential oil (EO) based on the weight of the other ingredients
If your balm base = 100 grams, that would be a total of 1 gram of EOs.
If you have a scale that only weighs in ounces, that would be 0.16 oz by wt for 1 pound of base.
If you have a gram scale (and mixing units), you'd add about 4.5 g for 1 pound of base.
That said, I would back off to maybe 0.5% or so, if I were using a mint EO or other strongly scented EO. Peppermint at 1% might be too much of a good thing for me. But YMMV.
Hope this helps!
If your balm base = 100 grams, that would be a total of 1 gram of EOs.
If you have a scale that only weighs in ounces, that would be 0.16 oz by wt for 1 pound of base.
If you have a gram scale (and mixing units), you'd add about 4.5 g for 1 pound of base.
That said, I would back off to maybe 0.5% or so, if I were using a mint EO or other strongly scented EO. Peppermint at 1% might be too much of a good thing for me. But YMMV.
Hope this helps!
SoapGrove
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I understand your point, Victojenni, about using eucalyptus for respiratory issues -- but I don't know that I personally would use it in a lip balm. YMMV, though, so do you add eucalyptus to lip balm? If so, what % would you recommend?
DeeAnna,
lsg deleted that person's post because he was a spammer. It doesn't matter what he wrote since he only wanted someone to click on his spammy link.
lsg deleted that person's post because he was a spammer. It doesn't matter what he wrote since he only wanted someone to click on his spammy link.
Thanks, Hazel. I wondered about it at the time. But you never know -- some legit posters sometimes share some interesting opinions. :roll:
You're right. If this person had been legit, I would have been interested in hearing more about it. I really need to use up the Eucalyptus I have on hand. It was an excellent sale so I had bought a pound of it. 
Just as a note on Eucalyptus Oil in lip balm or any other product you might ingest - in a word don't. Eucalyptus is as toxic as wintergreen, if not more so. The reason it's not worried about in aromatherapy is that it doesn't smell good enough to eat....
Thanks Lindy! That's good to know. I'll stick with using it in soap and air fresheners.
Yeah that's the safe place for it.... LOL
It's amazing how toxic most EO's are and how some are actually deadly, like Wintergreen and Eucalyptus...
It's amazing how toxic most EO's are and how some are actually deadly, like Wintergreen and Eucalyptus...
