Do Not Lose Heart Now: Homemade Lip Balm!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Homemade Lip Balm!

Make your own Lip Balm.

All natural lip balm is easy to make. On the left, you can see what I generally use to make it ( forgot the beeswax in that picture, though). The picture on the right is basically all you NEED to make it.

Here is a simple recipe:

1 ounce beeswax (order it or refine it from honeycomb).
1/2 Cup oil (use one kind or a variety- olive, coconut,

sweet almond, jojoba, shea butter, grape seed, etc.)

The rest is optional:

1/4 teaspoon aloe vera

1/2 teaspoon vitamin E

1/2 teaspoon essential oil

Makes about 5 ounces.

Here is the How-To:

1. Melt the beeswax in a double boiler. I use a glass measuring cup on top of a canning ring inside a pan. Don't get the melted beeswax all over the place. It is a bear to clean off, but once we melt the oils with it, the wax loses its bonding ( superpower glue like) ability.

2. Once the wax is all melted, Add the 1/2 oil. The coolness of the oil will make the beeswax cool enough to harden in places. It won't take long for it to remelt.

3. Take the mixture off of the heat. This is when you add the optional 1/4t aloe vera gel and 1/2t vit E oil. Its also time to add 1/2t essential oil of your liking. Work quickly, the balm will harden as it cools.

4. This is not a very good picture because I am working quickly. I am piping the balm into tubes. You can pour it in. This is the first time I've used a piper thingy, it is less messy. The tops of the lip balm will sink as they cool in the tubes, that's just the way it is. Add a few more drops to the tube than you'll think necessary and it may not do that.

You certainly don't have to use tubes. Whatever you have in hand is fine.

This is the end result. I would have had a few more tubes or tins if I wanted to remelt the balm that cooled before I could pour it. I just put it in a jar for our family to use.