How to Make Lip Balm
A perfect, completely natural lip balm to make at home. This is exactly the lip balm you would make from one of our famous kits! Tried and true.
Perhaps you have the kit, but you don’t like to read paper things. Or perhaps you once had a kit, and it was the best lip balm you ever had, and you want to make it a million times more. Or perhaps you never had a kit because you think kits are for posers, and you’re no poser. You don’t have to tell me which you are, I’m just going to give you this much sought-after recipe for free, like cookies at an open house, because I am exceedingly generous.
Your welcome!
Ingredients:
0.5 oz (14g) beeswax
0.8 oz (23g) shea butter
0.5 oz (14g) extra virgin coconut oil
20 drops of essential oils, give or take
Fills 10 standard lip balm tubes, or whatever else you want to put it in, totaling a capacity of 1.8 fl oz.
Heat a small saucepan half filled with water on the stove until simmering. Place a spouted cup inside the saucepan of simmering water to create a double-boiler setup.
Alternately, if you have a small, spouted pan that can be heated directly on a stovetop, you can use that over the lowest heat setting. But you definitely want something with a good spout, unless you are decanting with a bulb dropper or pipette.
Put beeswax in the spouted cup to melt.
When beeswax is nearly melted, add shea butter.
When shea butter is nearly melted, add coconut oil.
Once oils are completely liquid, remove pan from heat. Do not overheat!
(Optional) Add essential oils. Visit our essential oil guide here for more info.
Wanna add color? Stop here and jump over to our article about tinting lip balm.
Pour into tubes, tins, tiny pots or whatever else you gots. If you want help with this step, we’ve got a whole article about it.
Refrigerate immediately, until hardened (quick cooling ensures your balm stays silky smooooooth).
Don’t mind my dirty fingernails… I mean, if you’re gonna be a maker, you’re gonna get some dirt under your nails. Get over it!
Go forth and moisturize, young grasshopper.