chapstick

Hey Look!

I made chapstick!

Took me like, 8 seconds.

I'd been thinking about making chapstick for awhile,

so when Sandy mentioned looking for amazing chapstick not long ago,

it was the final push.

I knew her favorite (so far) was Chicken Poop,

so I looked up the ingredients.

Then I asked her what it was about it that she liked so much.

Her answer wasn't overly helpful,

so I decided I would just do the best I could

to recreate it exactly.

Without ever having tried it.

(and zero experience making chapstick...)

(there's that overconfidence thing ;-)

I have also found a favorite chapstick,

and I wanted to recreate mine, too.

Hers has avocado oil as the main ingredient,

mine has sunflower oil.

So I ordered both.

Yes. I ordered $20 worth of oil

so I could save money making my own chapstick.

(I have problems.)

Since this is the testing phase

I only made tiny batches.
(I used this formula. mostly.)

I'm not sure yet how I did on Sandy's
(I actually don't think I came very close - according to the ingredient list,
it has more essential oils than beeswax. And I just don't see how that's possible!)

but I think I did pretty good replicating mine.
 (besides the flavor, which I didn't even try to reproduce,
but is so yummy, I need to...) 

Tyler actually thinks

my version

is better than the one I was attempting to copy :-)
so - yay!