Believe it or not, making your own lip balm is a skill that you can easily master and even incorporate into your own recipe. This way, not only will you always have a nice and useful gift for your friends on hand, but you can even turn your creative passion into a product.
Benefits of home lip care
- Homemade lip balm is inexpensive and can be prepared in a short time using the ingredients you have at home. These ingredients are free of harmful additives.
- If you make your own lip balm, you can use the ingredients according to your own taste. This way you can avoid ingredients that can irritate or burn your lips. You can also easily determine the color, scent and consistency yourself.
- Homemade lip balm protects the lips better, gives them more shine and makes them softer than the marketed products.
Disadvantage:Since no preservatives are used, homemade lip balm does not last long.
Types of Homemade Lip Balm
Chapped lips are a universal problem - many of us use a balm or stick every day to keep our lips soft and supple. Making lip balm naturally is fun and easy. It requires only a few ingredients and gives you maximum control over what goes on your skin. While there are numerous types of natural lip balms, here are some of the most popular and commonly used ones.
Natural lip balm with beeswax:When it comes to choosing natural ingredients for the base of your lip balm, beeswax is one of the most suitable substances you can use. It's easy to order, mixes well with other ingredients, and is relatively inexpensive.
Colored lip balm:Although natural lip balm is typically used to treat or prevent chapped lips, many of us also want to use it to add color to our faces. That's why there are a variety of tinted lip balms in a variety of colors. From pink to orange to purple to red to everything in between, you can create custom shades with just a small amount of lipstick.
Healing lip balm:To soothe chapped or dry lips, many natural lip balm varieties contain ingredients that soothe the pain of chapped skin. The most common ingredients include menthol or camphor, which relieve the pain of dry lips. If you make your own lip balm, you can also include various essential oils in your recipe. These add additional healing properties to your product such as: B. Lavender for stress relief.
Make your own lip balm – How do you do it?
While there are many different types of homemade lip balm, here we offer you a basic recipe that you can build on. Change the basic beeswax base, use your favorite essential oils, and/or add a tint to customize the following recipe for your own purposes.
You can find out the difference between a lip oil, lip gloss and lip balmread here!
Collecting and combining all the ingredients
What you need:
- Beeswax:You can buy beeswax in the form of beads or lozenges
- Sheabutter:Sourcing creamy, raw shea butter as the base for the balm
- Coconut beer:Purchase this common ingredient at your local grocery store
- Essential oils:Whatever scent you prefer for your homemade lip balm, you can find a variety of essential oils at most health and wellness stores
- Glimmerpulver:To give your homemade lip balm a rosy hue, purchase mica powder
- Tubes or cans:Get containers for your homemade lip balm
Combine the ingredients:Take the beeswax, shea butter, and coconut oil and add them to the top container of the double boiler. Add tap water to the bottom pot of the double boiler. Place the double boiler on the stove and turn the heat to medium-high. Once all the ingredients in the pot begin to melt, stir and combine with a spatula or wooden spoon.
Make your own lip balm – add flavor and color
Add Flavor:When all the main ingredients are melted and well mixed, remove the double boiler from direct heat. Hold the top pot over the bottom pot of water to maintain the temperature of the ingredients (and to prevent the melted balm base from hardening). Start by adding a few drops of your favorite essential oil into the mixture. First mix five to ten drops and then test the scent. Add more essential oil depending on your preference.
Add color to the lip balm:It's time to bring color into play too. A pinch of mica powder or lipstick on the balm base is enough. Stir to combine the color with the mixture. Gradually add more powder or lipstick to darken the mixture to your liking. Then spoon the balm into a pipette or dropper.
Completion:Once the mixture is in the pipette or dropper, pour the balm into the jars or tubes. Let them cool at room temperature for a few hours. Once cooled to room temperature, you can enjoy your newly created tinted lip balm!
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