natural lip balm

My five-year-old licks her lips. Compulsively. Not so much a problem in the grand scheme of things. But when you’re five and your lips are chronically chapped, well … you run to Mommy to make things better.

Mommy (that’s me!), however, refuses to reach for the nearest lip balm as I’m entirely too aware of the nasty stuff that’s in most lip balms.

My daughter claims she is a lip balm addict. Addiction to lip balm is a myth, I’ve read, but one that is widely discussed. Either way, lip balm is often a stressful topic in our family when my daughter can’t find her stash, so for a holiday gift I’m going to make her a big batch of honey-scented lip balm using beeswax and healing oils.