Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Chapstick anyone?


Our mom Bonnie Jill (left) and my aunt Jackie (right)
These are the women who inspired Betty Jewels.
My sisters and I think this picture is pretty special....even the
damage gives it character.


Have you even been left stranded with chapped lips and no lip balm? You pat down all your pockets and rip through your bag...but still no lip balm. Well here in the icy tundras of Hanover, NH every extremity gets dry...so this happens to me ALL the time. But not anymore! My genius sister Ascher did a little research and found recipes for lip balm. Seriously....we made our own chap stick...little tube and all. (I will post a picture of it as soon as I get one.) We took beeswax, grapeseed oil, honey and flavoring and viola! lip balm. And it's good too. It has none of those addictive ingredients that just dry out your lips. Plus the 30$ you spend on materials will make 15+ tubes. That is much better than spending 3$ per tube only to lose them again and again....and again.
We call it Jack and Jill's (we made labels). My mom and aunt were both hippies so it seemed only natural to call our all natural lip balm after them.


a fuzzy picture of our chapsticks.

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