Homemade Lavender Mint Lip Balm
This homemade lavender mint lip balm recipe is amazing! Rather than putting toxic chemicals onto your skin and mouth, try this recipe! It provides nourishment and hydration for dry, cracked lips without the negative side effects! Try it today!
Homemade Lavender Mint Lip Balm
Total Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 7-9 lip balms or chapsticks (approximately)
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon beeswax
- 2 tablespoons shea butter
- 7 drops peppermint essential oil
- 7 drops lavender essential oil
- Lip balm containers or chapstick tubes
Directions:
- In a small pot over medium low heat melt beeswax, coconut oil, and shea butter.
- Remove from heat and add lavender and peppermint oils. Whisk well to distribute oil throughout the mixture.
- Pour quickly into lip balm containers or chapstick tubes. Let cool on counter till hard.
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How long does shea butter last and what else can I use it for??? Will it last longer if stored in the freezer??? The 16 oz jar is pretty expensive and it seems like it would take forever to use up making lip balm …
Check out our other DIY recipes for other ways to use shea butter. Many of the recipes call for it, especially the body butters and lotions!
Where do I buy Shea butter and bees wax?
If you click on the shea butter words and the bees wax words in the ingredients list, the link should take you to the exact products that I personally use in my DIY products. Otherwise here are the links again:
shea butter: http://amzn.to/1rV8pEx
beeswax: http://amzn.to/1kG5BTW
Where can I buy the lip balm tin containers
In the ingredients list, you should be able to click on the “lip balm tins” and that link will take you to tins that you can purchase. It is this one:http://amzn.to/1ozzxCy
where is a good source for good quality essential oils at a fair price?
Please email me at [email protected] for the info.
Where can I find quality oils for a decent price?
If you click on the ingredient name in the ingredient list it will take to you where I got mine
This turned out so nice! So smooth and feels great. My question is, what is the best way to clean out the pan I used to melt everything in?
I used hot water and soap but I did have to scrub!
Thank you! I got it clean by heating soapy water and giving it a good scrub. :)
If using tins for this recipe ( let’s say the 1/2 oz tins), how many tins would this recipe yield? Thanks!
I have developed an intolerance to coconut products (resulting in an extremely itchy contact dermititus rash) and am so bummed b/c I make a lot of natural products using it, not to mention I can’t continue with my daily oil pulling. Is there a good substitute to use in place of coco oil?
For oil pulling, you can also use olive oil
Does the essential oil have to be edible or can one us the aromatherapy oils for lip balms?
I think it is very important to use the highest quality of oils because they will be absorbed into the body and ingested through the mouth in small amounts
Can I use avocado oil instead of the Shea butter or will it leave the lip balm too runny?
It will probably be a little to runny but you could play around with the ratios and probably still use it
Why do you use chopsticks?
It’s easier to clean (or just throw away!)
can I use cocoa butter instead of Shea? I have a lot of cocoa butter on hand that I need to use up. I suppose it might alter the smell a little bit though.
It should work but I haven’t tried it personally. Let us know how it turns out!
brambleberry.com and bulkapthecary.com are excellent sources for all the products in this recipe. I love making my own lip balms & I always use their supplies. Just a tip to keep your pans clean….I prefer to use a double boiler method when melting my ingredients. I use mason jars because they’re designed to withstand high temperatures and I sit it inside a small saucepan with water. A pyrex container also works well. The spout is handy for pouring into tubes and I like to sit the handle outside the edge of my saucepan when I melting the ingredients.
To clean the jar, I wipe out as much as I can with a paper towel, then wash with dawn. It works pretty well for me.
Protein powder isolate vs.non-isolate.which is best?
I think whey concentrate is the best. Check this out:
https://draxe.com/7bestwhey-protein-benefits/
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Herro
Do you have any tips on how to make shaving or cutting up the beeswax any easier? I found myself looking like a madwoman trying to stab the block of beeswax to break off small enough pieces to measure. Shaving or grating it was near impossible, not to mention the huge mess it created! Thanks.
I melted mine first
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I’m confused about something: peppermint has menthol in it. Isn’t menthol an alcohol that will dry skin out? If so, why is it always used in lip balm?
When mixed with the other ingredients, it shouldn’t be an issue