Forget about the lipstick theory, this balm is what everybody needs during ...

Have you ever heard about the lipstick theory?

According to Leonard Lauder, the former chairman of Estée Laudere, the sales of lipstick skyrockets during social and economical depression. A lipstick is apparently a small affordable luxury that uplifts the mood.

Now and during this period of pandemic and lockdown and mandatory wearing of masks, nobody needs a lipstick, what everybody (independent of the gender) needs is a pampering product that is:

• microbiome friendly
• repairs and reestablishes the barrier despite excessive hand washing and disinfecting
• not boring.

This pretty and luxurious whipped cranberry balm is the quintessence of all necessities the five senses need. It looks like strawberry cream on top of a summer dessert and its as pleasing as it but with less calories and more benefits. The formulation is almost KISS and quite easy to make.

Ingredients

Procedure:

1- Blend phase A in a heat proof beaker and melt it in a water bath between 65-75 ^oC.

2- Blend phase B in another beaker. Add the powders to phase B. To avoid lumping use a sieve and add the powders gradually and little by little with complete blending after each addition.

3- When the butter phase is melted stop heating and start cooling down.

4- At a temperature lower than 50 ^oC add the oil-powder phase and continue cooling while stirring. You can put your beaker in the fridge and stir the content in intervals.

5- When the blend reaches a low trace add the essential oils and continue cooling and stirring till you reach a heavy trace.

6- At this point you can fill the balm in your containers or you can whip it.

7- Whip several cycles with cooling at intervals till you reach the desired consistency.

8- Fill in the containers and don't forget to take your stability and archive samples.

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