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After making my own lip balm I will never buy it again.
It's easy, cheap, 100% natural and good for your lips, especially this time of year. I tried to figure out the actual cost of this recipe but it wasn't worth counting up the pennies. Let's just say Burt's Bees makes a killing on lip balm!
Ingredients
- 1/2 oz. (approx. 3 tsp.) grated or roughly chopped beeswax
- 1 oz. (approx. 6 tsp.) coconut oil
- 1 1/2 tsp. lanolin
- 3/4 tsp. vitamin E
- 2 tsp. hard honey
- 3/4 tsp. peppermint essential oil
Directions
- In a small pot over medium low heat melt beeswax, coconut oil, lanolin and vitamin E. Use chopstick or other small, longish stick to stir (chopstick is perfect).
- Remove from heat and add honey and peppermint oil. Whisk well with chopstick and try to distribute oil throughout the mixture - this is tricky.
- Pour quickly into tins or jars. Let cool on counter till hard.
This recipe makes enough for 3 - 3/4 oz tins (see photo for size) and one 1 1/2 oz jar. I reuse cosmetic jars I've saved from years ago when I actually bought hand lotion and such.
Notes
I prefer to measure kitchen cosmetics with a scale but I included the approximate tsp. measurements for those without a scale.
All ingredients can be found at a natural food store or ordered from an online store such as Mountain Rose Herbs. The initial investment is large but these same ingredients can be used for making soap and skin care products.
Some people are allergic to lanolin. If you're making these for gifts you may want to label them.
I always use solid honey, that's just the kind of have. From my experience liquid honey will make the recipe too runny and will cause it to separate. If that's all you have try using less than 2 tsp.
This recipe makes enough to last our family of 5 several months, plus I usually give away a tin from each batch I make. After awhile if the honey in the lip balm starts to crystallize you can melt and re-pour it. Good as new. The photos in this post are actually from that process.
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Great recipe! I make my own
Great recipe! I make my own with a simpler recipe - just beeswax and peppermint-infused olive oil.
Did you know you can take empty chapstick tubes that you've used up, and just pour the balm in while it's liquid? It works perfectly!
Check out more DIY recipes at my blog if you like - patchworkradicals.weebly.com
I just made this lip balm and
I just made this lip balm and I am super excited that it turned out perfect! I cannot wait to try different scents and flavors!
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I'm planning to try this
I'm planning to try this recipe
BUT
I have coconut(oil.fruit,dried in every form im mentally allergic)
so
what are the substitute for coconut oil?
(A)
kindly
Junn, I would substitue 1/2
Junn, I would substitue 1/2 shea butter and 1/2 cocoa butter. And hate coconut? Oh, the things you miss out on (smile).
I meant I hate coconut not
I meant I hate coconut
not "have" sorry:*
I wonder if there is an easy
I wonder if there is an easy additive to add a SPF factor? This would be great for hiking if it had, say 15 SPF on it! I'm still going to try it though:)
My husband wants to know the
My husband wants to know the same thing. So we can use this for long trail hiking.
Sorry if this has been asked
Sorry if this has been asked already, but i did look! I am allergic to lanolin, can i leave it out? Thanks for great recipe.
If you follow this comment
If you follow this comment thread you'll find a link to another recipe without lanolin.
Used your lip balm recipe
Used your lip balm recipe today, didn't have some of the ingredients so I made some substitutions. Sweet almond oil instead of lanolin, Seabuckthorn seed oil instead of vitamin E oil, changed the essential oils to more of a citrus smell and I also really wanted to try out using Alkanet root powder to tint the colour (worked great). The honey didn't seam to mix with the other oils properly but it still turned out fantastic. The ratios of your recipe where are spot on. Thanks!
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I just wanted to say that
I just wanted to say that this balm is amazing! My recipe made 13 .15 oz tubes and is going to save me a lot of money!
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Where do you get hard honey?
Where do you get hard honey?
Is there a reason why you use
Is there a reason why you use honey instead of liquid white sugar?
Do you have the update for
Do you have the update for using liquid honey?
I just made some and it separated. Would remelting then cooling and mixing some help?
No update. My last batch of
No update. My last batch of lip balm, which I made one year ago is still going strong and I haven't made any with liquid honey in recent memory. You could try remelting and pouring. I've never had my lip balm separate.
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This looks like a great
This looks like a great recipe. I've never used lanolin before, though. Where does it come from and where can I find it? Thanks!
See here for a good
See here for a good description of lanolin. You can buy it at a health food store. You can omit it from the recipe if you wish. I like using it and like the results in the lip balm
Thank you for sharing your
Thank you for sharing your recipe!
Made lipbalm using 4
Made lipbalm using 4 different recipes in the last 2 months, planning for Christmas gifts. Everybody who got the other three recipes put in an order for this one when they tried it against the others. May have even converted a few Burts Bees addicts. Fabulous recipe. Now, how do I get it to contain sunscreen, I'm a hiker and my lips get murdered in the summer.
Magi, I'm thrilled to hear
Magi, I'm thrilled to hear that. I have been making this recipe for years now since we like it so much. I haven't tested any others to compare. Great question about the sunscreen. Damien and I have talked about this since we are big tip hikers and backpackers but we live in a cooler part of the north american continent and don't deal with the sun like western and southerners might experience. A zinc oxide powder is the best I can think of off the top of my head to add to the recipe to make it block the sun.
Expensive. Bees Wax, coconut
Expensive.
Bees Wax, coconut oil and everything else used to make this is expensive. You may not think but coconut oil is 5-15 dollars a jar. Bees wax, well, I don't know, but the rice of coconut oil is expensive. Spending 1-3 dollars on a good lip balm at the store is much better than spending the money for this.
That's an interesting way of
That's an interesting way of looking at it. The price of the ingredients will cost for the initial outlay but the actual cost of a tin of lipbalm is pennies, maybe 10's of pennies. Less than .50 for sure. Much cheaper than the cost of a similar store-bought product.
Consider this... If you don't
Consider this...
If you don't use coconut oil on a regular basis and set out to buy it just to make lip balm, yes it is expensive. But you can make about 100 tins of lip balm and invite friends to share in the cost and will you all have your own lip balm (and lip color by adding lip safe mica).
Coconut oil is good for soooooo many things beside cooking and baking, you can make a ton of beauty products with it.
As for bees wax, you can use if for various beauty products as well or if you have more than enough you can make candles with it.
I recently started making
I recently started making homemade lip balm. There are so many good recipes out there! This one sounds good. I just don't have any lanolin on hand. I will try it without. I have also created different adaptations using natural butters, like mango, shea and cocoa. They work great in lip balm as well as soaps and lotions.
Awesome recipe :) I don't
Awesome recipe :) I don't use lanolin at all and it's just fine. I ad a little more beeswax. For those allergic to beeswax, use soy wax. I am with ya, I was so tired of spending too much on lip balm, i set out to make it myself. If you add lip safe colorants (mica and oxides) you have a quick and beautiful lip color.
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