A good lip balm can be pretty pricey in the store, and while you can read the ingredients on the package, you never know what quality those ingredients are. Making your own DIY lip balm recipe with essential oils not only saves you a lot of money, it ensures you know what’s in your lip balm!
A homemade lip balm recipe makes great gifts and stocking stuffers. We make a batch of 50 or more at a time from our DIY lip balm recipe and keep it on hand to give to people. When I tuck a few extras of my homemade lip balm recipe into my purse, I put my name on mine so I know which I’ve used, then I always have the extras to giveaway when someone needs one.
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Toxic Chemicals in Lip Balm
With lip balm products you not only absorb the chemicals through your skin but you actually ingest the lip product directly. Most people who use lip balm on a regular basis actually ingest pounds of it over their lifetime. So don’t you want to make sure that what you are using has only healthy ingredients?
Unfortunately, most of the lip balm products out there do not have safe ingredients:
- Petrolatum – Ew! The unfortunate truth is that most chap stick products include petroleum based ingredients which have links to breast cancer, are known to clog pores and creates a barrier that prevents moisturizing ingredients from being absorbed.
- Parabens – These compounds are known endocrine disruptors that mimic estrogen and create havoc with your hormones.
- Fragrance or Flavor – We’ve warned about the dangers of fragrances before, but there’s never a need to include them in lip balm when you can easily make your own.
Take control of your health by switching dangerous chemicals for clean, non-toxic ingredients. This homemade lip balm is an easy recipe to make that uses essential oils to personalize it.
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This recipe is super quick and easy to make, and you can modify it using your own favorite oils. Sometimes we leave out the peppermint and use grapefruit instead!
- 1 tablespoon beeswax*
- 3 tablespoons Mama Z’s Oil Base or your favorite carrier oil**
- 2½ teaspoons shea butter
- 5 drops vitamin E oil
- 2 drops rosemary essential oil
- 3 drops peppermint essential oil
- Saucepan
- Glass jar
- 15-16 lip balm tubes or tins
- Fill a saucepan with 1-2 inches of water and place over medium heat. Set a glass measuring cup or jar into the saucepan to create a double boiler.
- Place the beeswax, oil base, and shea butter in the jar, and stir until melted.
- Once the ingredients are melted, remove from heat and quickly mix in the vitamin E oil and essential oils.
- Carefully pour into tubes or small tins.
- Let cool.
**No matter what allergies you may have, there’s a carrier oil that’s right for you. You can use any or a combination of these: Avocado, Fractionated Coconut, Grapeseed, Jojoba, Sweet Almond.
Other essential oil combinations I love to try include:
- rosemary and lemongrass
- lemongrass and peppermint
- orange and peppermint
Mama Z Pro-Tip – In my experience, the small tins are the easiest and least messy way to store and use homemade lip balms.
