Staff Answer You can add Vitamin E to this lip balm recipe if you wish. It will add more moisturizing properties to the balm along with giving the product a longer shelf life. You can add .5 ml Vitamin E to this recipe.

Staff Answer You can put this into a jar but if it seems too hard, you may need to add less beeswax.

The recipe listed is for 11 tubes while the kit makes 44 total. If you read through the recipe directions. number 7 states: TO MAKE KIT: Repeat above steps 3 more times to make 44 lip tubes. The kit contains enough ingredients to make 44 tubes, so using the recipe you can make 11 at a time, or 1 large batch of 44.

Staff Answer No, this recipe does not come with a filling tray to hold the tubes in place. You might try making holes in a piece of Styrofoam and placing the tubes in these holes once they are filled.

I hold my tubes up by securing a bunch with a rubber band. Holds then in place while you fill the tubes.

I have made lip balms using micas and flavor oil. Every time that they left a weird taste I always believed it had less to do with the flavor oil and more to do with the mica. So, I started adding less mica than the recipe called for and the weird taste went away. Try using less mica and see if it helps. (I made a test batch with a flavor oil and no mica and there was no weird taste, so that's how I figured out that I needed to decrease the mica.)

Staff Answer The product may leave a slight tint on the lips. If you would like more color, you can just add more crimson mica powder.