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Making Hot Tiger Balm at home is convenient and allows you to add the purest

ingredients that suit your desired level of heat intensity.

THINGS YOU’LL NEED

25g cocoa butter
25g beeswax

5g camphor essential oil
6g cajuput essential oil
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4g menthol essential oil
2g cassia essential oil

8g spearmint essential oil
1 tsp peppermint powder

1 tsp camphor powder
handful of white beans

Step One Step Two Step Three Step four

Melt the beeswax and cocoa While the beeswax and cocoa The trick with the essential Once the essential oils are
butter together in a small butter melts, weigh out the oils is to combine them with thoroughly incorporated you’ll
saucepan over low heat. essential oils in a small mason the heated wax and cocoa have a very fragrant pool of
Arrange a sparse, single layer jar. You’ll need a lot of essen- butter without getting them oils in your pan.
of white beans at the bottom tial oils, so DO NOT try and too hot, and definitely not
of two glass 125mL mason do this by drops! You will go for too long, or you’ll cook Blitz the camphor powder and
jars. You’ll want to use a glass mad trying to count them all, off their potency. So, once peppermint extract together
jar for the mould as the high and the large amounts mean the wax and cocoa butter are in a dedicated coffee grinder
amount of essential oils could your errors in counting or melted together, remove from until finely ground. Tip into a
corrode plastic or metal. calculations, and variations the heat and quickly stir in the small dish and add a spoon-
in drops sizes between the essential oils, trying to use the ful of the melted oils. Mash
different essential oils, can be residual heat from the melting everything together and then
much, much larger. to get everything incorporat- add the peppermint paste to
ed. If that doesn’t work, pop the rest of the oils. Stir to
the saucepan back over low

TIPS Step five

To release the bars from the jars you Melt the beeswax and cocoa
may need to dip them in a shallow butter together in a small
saucepan over low heat. Ar-
pan of boiling water before tapping
range a sparse, single layer of
them out. white beans at the bottom of
two glass 125mL mason jars.

fuse COUPLES HEALTH & FITNESS 4 | August 2014