Crafting Your Own Simple Natural Lip Balm & Gloss: A Recipe for Nourished Lips

Embark on a journey of self-care and sustainability with our guide to creating your very own simple natural lip balm. In a world filled with synthetic ingredients and mass-produced cosmetics, there's something truly empowering about crafting your own nourishing lip balm using natural, wholesome ingredients. Join us as we explore the art of lip care and share a recipe that's easy, effective, and eco-friendly. Get ready to pamper your lips with a luxurious balm made with love and natural goodness.

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Have you ever wondered the essence of those ingredients you find in your lip balms. I honestly can't pronounce some of their names. But you find a long list of ingredients you can pronounce, don't know what they do, and if you are like me you'll tend to wonder if their good effect outweighs their bad effects. Gosh, it could be a lot simple. To get a basic natural and fine lip balm, all you need is two ingredients - Oil and Beeswax or soy wax (i prefer to use beeswax though).

Basic Recipe

Oil - 1/2 cup (Like sweet almond oil, 

castor oil, 

coconut oil, olive oil or combination of them)
Beeswax -  1/4 cup (or soy wax if you making vegan lip balm. but this tends to be a little lighter than                      beeswax. In that case you nee to add a little more to get the consistency you like.)

Adding Butter

There are various Commonly used natural cosmetic butters you can add to your natural lip balm. Adding butter to lip balm make the lip balm more silky on the lip and moisturizing which make the lip feel tender and soft. The butters include and not limited to :

Shea butter - you can use refined or unrefined ( i use unrefined)

Cocoa butter-  i like the natural scent of the unrefined cocoa butter in lip balm especially when making my "chocomint" lip balm

Mango butter- This butter is more silkier and lighter that the above mentioned butter. More common in refined.

When you add butter to your oil, you might not need to as as much beeswax as you do when there is no butter. This is because these butters are harder than just oil. 

Other Optional Ingredients

Coloring- can be oily or powder form like Mica mineral pigment

Flavors-  Usually in oily form. there are also some in powder form. oil is easier to use.

Vitamin  E - capsule or the beauty vitamin e oil.

Lanolin - Absolutely optional. this oils is very stretch and thick  Best used in lip gloss making

Tools You Need

-Bow- to melt your ingredients in

-Measuring Cups or kitchen scale if you are going by ounces, grams etc

-Cloves- To keep your process very sanitary especially if you intend to give them out as gifts or sell them

-Containers - This could be lip balm plastic tubes, lip balm tins or little lip balm jars

Tip

How hard or soft it is depends on your recipe measurement. The texture of the lip balm depends on your oil choice. I personally like to use castor oil as my major oil. I like to add a little coconut oil for  more shine too.

It's best to allow the oil to cool off a little before pouring into container especially if pouring into plastic tubes as this will prevent leakage, also limit the depth of the hole you get on top when it hardens.

this will also limit the plastic particles that may melt into your lip balm.

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