Today I am going to share my easy natural lip balm recipe. This DIY project will have you making your own all natural lip balm in just a few minutes. This recipe is a lip balm moisturizer that works wonders on my lips during our cold Montana winters. And the best part? It can be made with three simple ingredients in five easy steps.
A long time lip balm addict, it wasn’t until two years ago that I first ventured into figuring out how to make all natural lip balm. I was amazed at how easy it was! It also helps to save money because making your own natural lip balm at home costs a fraction of the price to buy it at the store. This cost is even lower if you reuse old lip balm tubes and don’t purchase new ones.
I’ve seen a lot of lip balm recipes online that call for ingredients that the average person does not have at home unless you regularly make homemade body products. While ingredients like jojoba oil, avocado oil and Vitamin E are probably quite lovely for your skin, I never have them on hand and don’t have the time or money to drive into town trying to find them or order them online.
I began experimenting and came up with this super easy, skin moisturizing recipe for all natural lip balm. I’ve been making it for the last two years and I LOVE it! We also sell our homemade lip balm in our Etsy shop and wholesale it to stores and have received a lot of positive feedback from folks who love our all natural lip balm.
Easy Natural Lip Balm Recipe:
This recipe makes approximately seven standard size lip balm tubes.
Ingredients:
2. Grate the beeswax if you did not purchase the pellets
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3. Place the beeswax and oils in a double boiler. Heat on medium until they are all melted and mixed together. You can also put all your ingredients in a glass measuring cup and heat them in the microwave.
4. Pour the wax into the lip balm tubes. I prefer to put the hot wax in a large glass measuring cup with a pour spout for easy tube filling. Fill the tubes to the very top, if a little runs out the top that is fine. Don’t try to wipe it off now, wait until it dries and it easily wipes off the tube.
5. Let the lip balm cool and harden. This takes about an hour. Wipe down the tubes with a dry cloth, place the caps on and they’re ready to use.
See, wasn’t that simple? Using this easy natural lip balm recipe is a great way to start saving money and making your own homemade lip balm!
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Wow… I was expecting it to be a lot more complicated than that… thank you!
I know Sherri, that’s how I felt when I first started making lip balm! I am so amazed at how easy it is and I love this recipe better than the stuff I used to buy in the store.
What do you infuse your oils with? Plantain and calendula are 2 of my go-to favorites!
My favorite flowers to infuse in oils for lip balm are lavender and calendula. I have a variety of other oils I’ve infused like arnica oil I use to make a salve.
Thank you! I’m pinning this. As much as I adore my Burt’s Bees lip balm it gets expensive on a tight budget.
The expense of the store bought lip balm is what actually inspired me to try making my own. I promise once you try making your own you’ll never go back to store bought!
After 18 mo. of seriously chapped lips - literally peeling like a sunburn every day - and many $$$ spent trying to find a lip balm that helped for more than an hour or two, I decided to make my own. After a few weeks my lips are almost healed.
I’m convinced that something in the commercial balms was actually causing the problems to continue.
I used to get seriously chapped lips all the time too when I used store bought lip balm. Until I read your comment, I hadn’t realized that I haven’t had that problem since I started making my own lip balm!
Is there a beeswax substitute???^_^
I’ve read that you can use Candelilla wax which is supposedly extracted from a plant. I’ve never tried it but have read of some other folks who use it.
Is it really as easy at that? I am absolutely going to attempt this! Thanks for sharing.
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I know, it is unbelievable how easy it is to make! The first time I made it I was just amazed at how quick and easy it was, which made me wish I had started making it years ago!
WhThank you for sharing with the Clever Chicks Blog Hop! I hope you’ll join us again next week!
Cheers,
Kathy Shea Mormino
The Chicken Chick
http://www.The-Chicken-Chick.comat a perfect blog at this time of year. The best part about making your own balm is knowing exactly what is in it.
thanks for the easy recipe. I like the idea of using an infused oil.
I heard that you can use coconut oil, Vaseline and Koolaid but you could sub an oil of whatever flavor you like for the Koolaid, couldn’t you? Beeswax isn’t easily available near here.
So easy! My toddler is obsessed with chap stick, so this would be nice to make and then I don’t have to worry about what’s in it!
Kristine says
This sounds wonderful, thank you. Do you have a recipe with sunscreen in it for lips? I understand beeswax only has a SPF 4 in it. Thank you.