Master balm and salve making and make your own products just the way you like them. Save money at the same time. What’s more, making these kinds of products is a lot like candle making and soap making.

Candles, soap, salves and balms all go together too. If you get in the business of selling soap or candles, then the salve-type-products complement the others.

Get these tips about putting together salves and balms to use or sell.

Tip 1 – Salves, balms and body butters are all made about the same way. Containers are usually different. Other than that, the main difference in just in the proportions of the materials used to make up the products.

Tip 2 – Salves and balms are really just combinations of a wax and butters or oils. That simple combination is all it takes to produce a salve product. Using more waxes generally gets you a harder product. Using more oils and less wax results in something that is softer.

Tip 3 – Combining essential oils into the products is a way to get a certain fragrance to the mixture and a way to impart some herbal essence to the product as well. The practitioner of aromatherapy sees a salve as a carrier for the essential oil.

Tip 4 – If you make your own balms, tweak recipes to allow for changes in weather, temperature mainly. As the weather gets really hot, it’s nice to have a harder product, that’s less likely to melt and run. Conversely, in the cold part of the year or in cold locations, a softer product is more pleasant to use.

Tip 5 – People like to buy these kinds of natural products. That’s so partly because there is a lot of interest in avoiding synthetic chemicals on the skin.

That means folks are getting away from most lotions. These kinds of products are much the same as lotions, but without all the chemicals.

Of course an almost endless variety of variations on the salves theme are possible.Vary the ingredients in these mixtures and vary the proportions and get all kinds of results. This makes putting together these kinds of materials really an interesting hobby.

It also makes salve and balm making a possible profits generator as well.

I’m telling you: people really go for the salves and balms. Think about lip balms for example… Lip balms are big business! And so are many other related products, like body butter.

You can get in on this! Make your own lip balms, herbal salves, body butters and more for a fun hobby, and maybe a little money-maker too…