Say Goodbye To Dry Chapped Lips! This Homemade Lip Balm Nourishes and Heals Dry Lips with Coconut Oil, Honey and Essential Oils.
Have you ever made lip balm before?
I was a little intimidated when I first started making my own beauty products. I never thought of myself as a DYIer but once I started I realized how easy it was to make my own products. And it’s a ton of fun!!
Homemade lip balm is one of the easiest beauty products you can make. It took me less than 5 minutes to make this recipe and I made enough to last a year!
My 6-year-old daughter loves makeup and is always getting into my lip balms and mineral makeup. Most over the counter beauty products contain ingredients that are toxic and linked to reproductive abnormalities. I don’t worry about how my beauty products effect her because I make them all myself with natural ingredients.
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Homemade Lip Balm with Coconut Oil, Lavender & Honey
Ingredients:
- 3 Tbsp Coconut Oil
- 1/2 tsp Raw Honey
- 1 Tbsp Sweet Almond Oil
- 2 Tbsp Beeswax Pastilles
- 20 Drops Lavender Essential Oil
- Empty Lip Balm Containers
Instructions:
- Remove the lids from the lip balm tubes and secure upright with a large rubber band.
- Melt the coconut oil and beeswax together in a double boiler.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir in raw honey, sweet almond oil and essential oils.
- Pour the mixture into the upright tubes.
- Allow the lip balm to set and then cap the containers.
Homemade Lip Balm with Coconut Oil, Lavender & Honey
- Yield: 12 bottles 1x
Ingredients
- 3 Tbsp Coconut Oil
- 1/2 tsp Raw Honey
- 1 Tbsp Sweet Almond Oil
- 2 Tbsp Beeswax Pastilles
- 20 Drops Lavender Essential Oil
- Empty Lip Balm Containers
Instructions
- Remove the lids from the lip balm tubes and secure upright with a large rubber band.
- Melt the coconut oil and beeswax together in a double boiler.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir in raw honey, sweet almond oil and essential oils.
- Pour the mixture into the upright tubes.
- Allow the lip balm to set and then cap the containers.
I will definitely make these lip balms again. They turned out perfect 🙂
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Should the coconut oil be a liquid or solid version? Thanks!
You can use Shea butter but it’s a solid like coconut oil. Instead use olive or avacodo oil.
Is it ok to make the lip balm without the sweet almond oil?
I have the same question
I’ve created my own recipes for lip gloss/balms before and I’ve found you can swap out oil ingredients for others of similar consistency. For example, you could with this example swap out the sweet almond oil for say, olive oil, avocado oil, pumpkin seed oil etc.
Hi Tiffany,
My daughter & I plan to make your recipe, lip balm as party favors for her birthday. Need to know, how long the balm can last i.e. it’s expiry from time of manufacture? Or do I have to look at each ingredients’ expiry & tabulate the date?
Amazing! I made these for Christmas, thank you
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How many tubes did it make ?
Thanks for sharing your great ideas with us.
Kevin.
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I made this and absolutely love it. Gonna make with either cinnamon or mint for the winter season. Thanks a bunch for the easy recipe ????
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Can you give this resipy by weight in oz pleas?
So I followed your recipe and I think you should have more information about how to actually make it. So you want to wait until the coconut oil is heated and warm before adding breesewax because it takes FOREVER to melt beeswax and coconut oil when they are both solid. Also, if beeswax gets into your pot, your pot is ruined. When you mix the beeswax with the heated oil you need to costantly stir it. If not, it won’t be mixed right.
When i mix ingredients like this together, i use what is called a double boiler. Which means you take a small pot, fill it up about a quarter of the way with water, put the measured butters and oils into a glass measuring cup with a handle, bring water to a boil, stir until ingredients melt, apply your scent of choice essential oils if you choose, poor into the containers, and allow to cool. They cool faster either in the fridge or freezer. When they are solid then they are ready to use. It shouldn’t matter if you apply the caps before or after they turn solid.
Hi,
I tried this one, it turned out good except for one issue. The honey got separated once the balm cooled.
Where did I go wrong?
Regards,
Divya
Honey is water soluble. The other ingredients are all oil based. Oil and water do not mix. Leave out the honey and use honey fragrance oil or honey flavoring oil, both available at various herb/essential oil suppliers.
Did you mix together and stir in the ingredients while they were melting? Do a double boiler. Put your ingredients in the glass measuring cup, and stir until completely melted. Apply your essential oils in you choose to use them. Put into containers and allow to turn solid. You can use the fridge or freezer if you choose to help turn solid faster.
Sounds wonderful. Will it melt in warmer temps? Thanks!
Yes at about 90*F Coconut Oil will start to liquify – To offset this add a higher ratio (percentage) of beeswax. I plan to make a cold, med and hot weather versions. The hot version uses beeswax and paraffin wax. the cold version uses beeswax and petroleum jelly (small amount). To test melt/freeze points. put the mix in a container and test for the temps you want, then remelt that batch (if cold) or no longer pourable. I just got a laser temp. gauge so I could log my formulas – based on melt points. (having lived years in both MN. and AZ. and now WA.).
Myself – I never use scented anything – as I like the smell of the natural ingredients. And some are sensitive to scented things.
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In my experience, coconut oil melts at approx. 76 degrees and higher. It solidifies below 76 degrees.
I don’t have sweet almond oil, can I use Shea butter instead? I see that must recipes call for sweet almond oil but that’s the only ingredient I don’t have. Should I wait until I have it off just give the Shea butter a try to see how it works? Of would coco butter work?
TIA,
Quita H.
I have Cocozia coconut oil and all ingridients exept beeswax. Where mayI buy it? Or Can I change it?
I just saw some at Hobby Lobby today.
Castor oil..in place of honey and adds a nice glossy look.😊
How many tubes will this make?
It makes 12. 🙂
Hi Tiffany,
Is it possible to make lip balm with only coconut oil and bees wax, and maybe a little cocoa butter?
Sure! You can experiment with different ratios and ingredients.