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Want to Make Your Own Homemade Beeswax Lip Balm? It’s Easy!

Beeswax lip balm has been around for a loooooong time. That’s because beeswax is among the most important of lip balm ingredients. Even some of the most popular brands such as ChapStick and Blistex still use beeswax as one of their lip balm ingredients in at least some of their products.

Why is Beeswax Lip Balm the Best?

Why is lip balm made with beeswax so effective? It’s because beeswax is unmatched in its ability to help protect the lips by sealing in moisture.

And beeswax has the added advantage of being a natural ingredient with a delicate, sweet scent – a nice fringe benefit for a product that you apply directly under your nose!

Be Careful When You’re Shopping for Lip Balm…

Some lip balm manufacturers don’t bother to use beeswax. Instead, they substitute petroleum jelly (petrolatum) to hold in moisture. Why? Because petroleum jelly is cheaper than beeswax. But it’s not better. And some manufacturers also throw in a number of dyes and preservatives.

So when you’re shopping for lip balm, be sure to read that ingredient label!

You can buy lip balm made of only natural ingredients like beeswax. Burt’s Bees Lip Balm is one of the most popular all-natural lip balms. But another way to be sure you’re getting lip balm with beeswax and other natural ingredients is to make your own.

Did you know you can make your own with only 2 ingredients beeswax and ! Of course you can add in a few more to enhance the lip balm.

Step By Step Videos DIY Beeswax Lip Balm

This video is short and easy to follow to make 5 tubes of lip balm. Ingredients needed to copy the video is 1 quarter oz of beeswax and sweet almond oil (or another carrier oil) and 5 lip balm tubes.

If you are looking to make more this video shows how to make 14 lip balm sticks and 12 7oz containers.

Making Homemade Lip Balm the Easy Way

Want to try your hand at making your own lip balm?

Just buy a kit for making homemade lip balm. A kit makes the process of making your own homemade, safe and natural lip balm easy and fun.

Here is the kit that I recommend, with one purchase you’ll get all the ingredients you need, along with detailed instructions.

Making Homemade Lip Balm From Scratch

Do you prefer the challenge of making your lip balm from scratch instead of from a kit? Then here’s a simple recipe for you that requires only a few ingredients:

Step-by-step instructions:

1. Melt down one tablespoon of beeswax (you can use beeswax grated from chunks or from a block, but beeswax pastilles are easier to work with).

2. When the beeswax is about half melted, add in 1 tablespoon of coconut oil, and a few drops of raw honey.

3. Once the wax is completely melted, and the coconut oil and honey blended in, break open 2 capsules of vitamin E (or an equivalent amount from a bottle) and pour into the mix. Blend well.
(optional) Add a few drops of an essential oil of your choice and mix thoroughly.

4. Pour the mix into lip balm containers or tubes – whichever you prefer. Be careful!

Product Suggestions

If you don’t have all the ingredients you need on hand, here are some popular choices for some of the ingredients for the recipe above.

Coconut Oil:

  • Deriguer Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil

Essential Oils:

  • Carrot Seed Oil
  • Peppermint Oil
  • Orange Oil
  • Lemon Oil
  • Bergamot Oil
  • Jojoba Oil
  • Eucalyptus Oil
  • Blend (peppermint, rosemary, lemon and eucalyptus oils)

Containers:

  • Lip Balm Tubes – Translucent
  • Lip Balm Tubes – White
  • Lip Balm Tubes – Black
  • Lip Balm Jars – White Plastic
  • Lip Balm Tins – Round
  • Lip Balm Tins – Rectangular

A Tip…

Most beeswax lip balm recipes will require that you melt the beeswax in the process of making your homemade lip balm. Just be aware that beeswax is highly flammable, and you need to be cautious when melting it.

If you let the beeswax get too hot, in addition to risking a fire, there’s a chance that you’ll diminish the quality of the beeswax.

So never apply a source of heat directly to the beeswax.

Instead, use a double boiler to melt the wax.

The double boiler provides even heating and avoids isolated hot spots that could reach the point of flammability even if the overall temperature of the wax is safe.

Also, the double boiler method limits the maximum heat to the boiling temperature of water (You won’t need to get it that hot to melt your beeswax, though. Beeswax melts at about 150 degrees F).

It’d be a shame to end up with blistered lips in the attempt to avoid chapped lips, so be careful!

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