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Lip Balm Flavors
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Posted by elle110 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 8, 04 at 15:18
| Quick question. Do any of you guys make lip balm? I am very perplexed by the flavoring process. I have flavor oils but they don' really have a flavor just smell. I add 2t Flavor oil per 8oz of balm but hardly any fragrance after they are done.
I did try adding more one time but that was to much and it burned your lips.
How can I get my Balms to have a stronger Fragrance and is there any way to get an actual flavor? (I am using very high quality FO)
Thanks
Michelle |
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RE: Lip Balm Flavors
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I was wondering the same thing. I want to make some lip balms, and I ordered two flavor oils. They are horrible. Smell great, but I tasted them (to see what they would taste like) and I nearly choked. They were awful. I wrote and asked and they said the smell "fools" you into thinking it has a flavor. I am not sure if I buy that. At any rate, I am not going to use them in my lip balms (if I ever get around to making them). I just can't bring myself to now that I know how awful and bitter they taste. I have purchased good tasting lip balm, and I am sure that my nose was not fooling me into thinking that it tasted good!
Susan |
RE: Lip Balm Flavors
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| I agree, I have had good tasting lip balm as well. Mine doesn't taste bitter in the balm, it has no taste and I am ok with it not tasting but once it is balm it hardly has a smell either. I am using the amount recommended per batch. It's a pain because people love lip balm but they have to at least smell something Michelle |
RE: Lip Balm Flavors
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I had gotten some flavor oils from a company in Canada called Cranberry Lane. They do have a web site, I think it's cranberrylane.com.
I never did end up making anything with them, but I tried them & they smelled wonderful & tasted sort of sweet (although I didn't taste much, just a tiny bit).
With the exchange rate the prices were pretty good, specially on small stuff.
I used to get my bath bomb supplies from them before I could find them elsewhere. Hazel |
RE: Lip Balm Flavors
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| : ) I've had some luck with just using food-grade flavorings in small batches, and was thinking about trying a batch with some kind of cordial blended in (the booze would cook off quickly, I'm more concerned about the extra sugar encourging creepy stuff to grow on it) but most of my balms just taste from the drop of clove oil I use. |
RE: Lip Balm Flavors
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Absolutely fab lip balm flavours can be had from Soap Basics, - Wild Berry, Strawberry, Creamy Chocolate Fudge & Cherry etc, unfortunatley for you this company
is in England, but they ship abroad, their address is: The Cottage, Station Hill, Chudleigh, Devon TQ130EE, Tel no +44 (0)1626 854520, e-mail info@soapbasics.co.uk
They're worth the trouble honest, they're fab! |
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