How To Make Your Own Natural (Essential Oil) Lip Balm

February 28, 2011 in Aromatherapy, Beauty, Best Essential Oils, Buy / Purchase, Lavender, Make My Own, Natural, Quality / Pure, Recipes, Using Essential Oils, Young Living Distributor by Evelyn Vincent | No comments

Lavender, Grapefruit and Cinnamint Lip Balm One of the things I love most about my Young Living Essential Oils is that I can make so many different useful products with them. Though Young Living does sell three wonderful different lip balms (Cinnamint #5150, Lavender #5203, and Grapefruit #5178) sometimes it’s just fun to make your own.

The delights of making your own lip balm is that you can regulate the recipe below to obtain the shininess and flavor ‘you’ desire… not to mention, that you are getting the skin healing benefits of therapeutic-grade essential oils!

This recipe also makes nice gifts!

Natural Essential Oil Flavored Lip Balm Recipe

You will need:

1 TBSP Beeswax – purchased either in blocks that can be grated with a cheese grater to get smaller pieces that are easier to work with, or it can also be purchased as small pellets. For this recipe you will need one tablespoon.
1/2 TBSP Cocoa Butter
4 tsp Sweet almond oil
1 tsp Honey (optional): This gives your lip gloss a sweeter taste and smell.
3-4 drops Vitamin E (optional) Besides being an antioxidant, Vitamin E is also a natural preservative and will help your lip balm last longer.
5-8 drops Essential Oils: These not only give your lip balm its own unique scent and flavor, they also add the benefits of the essential oil you use to your lip balm creation. Some favorite essential oils to use are peppermint (with or without honey), wintergreen (with honey—add a drop of vanilla for a “root beer” flavor), Lavender, Helichrysum, Frankincense, Spearmint, or one of the citrus oils (such as orange, lime, lemon, or grapefruit) along with the honey (one caution about the citrus oils—they are photosensitizing and can increase the risk of sunburned lips if this lip balm is worn while out in the sun). Because lip balm is worn on the lips and might end up in the mouth, make sure the essential oils you use comes from a source that can be trusted to produce pure unadulterated essential oils without any chemical additives, such as Young Living Essential Oils.
Lip Balm Dispenser(s) (available here)

Instructions:

Pack grated beeswax or beeswax pellets into a Tablespoon size measuring spoon until it is packed level with the top, then dump the beeswax into a heat-proof measuring cup (such as a Pyrex™ brand measuring cup).
Pack cocoa butter into a one-half-tablespoon size measuring spoon until it is packed level with the top, then dump cocoa butter into the measuring cup with the beeswax.
Add 4 teaspoons of sweet almond oil to the beeswax and cocoa butter. If a sweeter lip gloss is desired, add up to 1 teaspoon of honey.
Place the measuring cup in a large frying pan that is filled with 1″ of hot water.
Place the frying pan and measuring cup on the stove and turn the burner on low.
Stir the mixture in the measuring cup with a popsicle stick or bamboo skewer every couple of minutes until the wax is completely melted (about 15-20 minutes).
Turn off stove and carefully remove the measuring cup from the frying pan and place the measuring cup on a towel on a counter-top or table.
If desired, stir in the contents of 1 capsule of vitamin E (or 3-4 drops liquid vitamin E).
Stir in 5-10 drops of your desired essential oil or blend.
Pour the mixture into lip balm dispensers, lip gloss containers, or any other small jar or container. This recipe will fill 4 or 5 containers. You may find it easier (and cleaner) to either use a small dropper to transfer the mixture into the small containers, or to use a small funnel to help pour the mixture into the small containers without spilling on the side.

For a Shiny Lip Balm: For a softer, shinier lip gloss, add a teaspoon more sweet almond oil, and a teaspoon less beeswax (or experiment with your own proportions to find something you like).