I am lip balm crazy. I have so many different flavors, and when I see the cute lip balms sitting there at the cash register, I have to restrain myself from buying one of every flavor. If I had known it was so easy to make, I would have been making it for years!
This is what I did...
Materials:
1 ounce beeswax (I used beeswax pellets because they melt faster)1 ounce of coconut oil
1 ounce of shea butter
essential oil of your choice (or a combination of oils)
containers for your lip balm (I used 0.15oz containers - same size and Chapstick. This recipe )
glass pyrex bowl
saucepan
dropper
I weighed the ingredients on a kitchen scale. The ingredients don't have to be exact though, so if you don't have a scale, you can put in about the same amount of each ingredient. Play around with the ingredients. There are a ton of different recipes. I'll post some at the bottom of the page.
Where to get this stuff? I got my coconut oil, shea butter and essential oils at Vitamin Cottage (a local health food store). It bought the beeswax pellets and containers on Etsy.
Procedure:
Before starting, I cleaned all of my lip balm containers and let them dry.
Melting
Instead of using a double boiler, I used a pyrex glass bowl that I set over a saucepan. I used the glass bowl because clean up was easier than using a double boiler.
I boiled some water in the sauce pan, then placed the glass bowl on top.
I left the stove on high and let the water continue to boil. Then I took 1 ounce of beeswax and placed it in the bowl. I melted the beeswax first because it takes longer to melt.
After the beeswax is liquid, I added 1 ounce of coconut oil and 1 ounce of shea butter. Then I stirred and melted all of the ingredients together.
Adding Essential Oil
After the ingredients were completely melted, I lowered the stove to medium.Then I added the essential oil. I used about 30 drops. Then I stirred it.
I made a few different kinds, orange, grapefruit, and lemon-lime.
Put it all together
Now that it is all melted and you've added the essential oil, it is ready to put in the containers. I used a dropper. I tried a syringe, but that didn't work very well. The dropper works really well.
Keep your lip balm mixture on the heat (I put mine on medium). That way it won't cool while you're filling the containers. Just suck some liquid into the dropper and squeeze it out into the container.
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| I used these containers, and it look about 4-5 squeezes to fill each one up. |
You're Finished
That is it. When the lip balm is cooled it is ready to go. Also I noticed that the fragrance gets stronger the next day. If you are disappointed with the strength of the fragrance, I'd recommend waiting until the next day. If it is still not what you wanted, the good things is you can just remelt it and add more essential oil.You can also have fun with labels. I used address labels. The transparent labels stuck to the containers really well.
Clean Up Tips
Clean up wasn't too bad with the glass bowl. I wiped out the glass bowl with a paper towel while the bowl was still hot. This cleaned it pretty well. Then I cleaned it with some dawn. Done!Also if any lip balm mixture gets on your hands you can just rub it into your skin. Nice and moisturizing.
Have fun making lip balm!
Other Recipes
There are a ton of lip balm recipes out there. Here are some interesting ones that I found.Burts Bees Copycat Recipe
http://happymoneysaver.com/burts-bees-lip-balm-recipe/
Mountain Rose Recipes
Lip Stain
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