Petroleum is not good for us and Dr. Oz says that it can cause cancer...BUT there are so many wonderful uses for vaseline....so I decided to create my own version of petroleum free jelly.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of beeswax (I ordered my beeswax on Amazon)
1 cup of carrier oil (or combination of oils: ex...coconut, almond, jojoba, olive, avocado, apricot, vitamin E oil etc.)
essential oil - if you desire - I didnt use any on mine.
So here's how to do it....
First, gather all of your ingredients.
My beeswax was in a big block and was VERY HARD to cut, so I ended up using my potato/apple peeler to just shave what I needed.... If you can find the beeswax pellets, the extra cost is worth the trouble...believe me
I threw my beeswax and my carrier oils (almond, apricot and coconut oil, with a lil vitamin E oil) into a metal bowl that I would be placing over a pot of shallow boiling water (dont want the water to be high enough to boil out of the pot and into your oils). I turned the heat on low and let the oils melt into each other - approximately 1 minute...maybe less. Be VERY CAREFUL to ensure that your oils dont burn. I watched the oil the whole time, so that I pulled it off the heat just as it was finished melting.
Then you can either wait for the oil to harden up a bit....takes approximately 30 minutes, or you can throw it in the deep freezer for 4 minutes. Any longer than 5 minutes and your creation will be h.a.r.d!
There you have it. Your petroleum free vaseline jelly. I wanted to re-create the Carol's Daughter Body Jelly (because its too expensive), and I actually like my end creation, makes my hand so smooth.
I hate the smell of the Carol's daughter body jelly, so I always added an essential oil to it to make it smell a little better, perhaps if she recreated the Tui hair oil smell, then I would be a prisoner of carols daughter body jelly, but NOPE, this is wayyyyyyy cheaper and you can make bigger batches for all of your family members. I didnt add any essential oils to my petroleum-free jelly, but you can certainly add a few drops of your favorite. I believe that lavender, vanilla or some citrus combination would be good)
If you like your petroleum-free jelly to be harder, then add more beeswax.
This would also be awesome as a chapstick/lip balm type of thingy, if you have a smaller container that can fit in your purse.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of beeswax (I ordered my beeswax on Amazon)
1 cup of carrier oil (or combination of oils: ex...coconut, almond, jojoba, olive, avocado, apricot, vitamin E oil etc.)
essential oil - if you desire - I didnt use any on mine.
So here's how to do it....
First, gather all of your ingredients.
I threw my beeswax and my carrier oils (almond, apricot and coconut oil, with a lil vitamin E oil) into a metal bowl that I would be placing over a pot of shallow boiling water (dont want the water to be high enough to boil out of the pot and into your oils). I turned the heat on low and let the oils melt into each other - approximately 1 minute...maybe less. Be VERY CAREFUL to ensure that your oils dont burn. I watched the oil the whole time, so that I pulled it off the heat just as it was finished melting.
Then you can either wait for the oil to harden up a bit....takes approximately 30 minutes, or you can throw it in the deep freezer for 4 minutes. Any longer than 5 minutes and your creation will be h.a.r.d!
I hate the smell of the Carol's daughter body jelly, so I always added an essential oil to it to make it smell a little better, perhaps if she recreated the Tui hair oil smell, then I would be a prisoner of carols daughter body jelly, but NOPE, this is wayyyyyyy cheaper and you can make bigger batches for all of your family members. I didnt add any essential oils to my petroleum-free jelly, but you can certainly add a few drops of your favorite. I believe that lavender, vanilla or some citrus combination would be good)
If you like your petroleum-free jelly to be harder, then add more beeswax.
This would also be awesome as a chapstick/lip balm type of thingy, if you have a smaller container that can fit in your purse.
I'm going to try your recipe instructions. Thank you so much for posting. :)
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