How to Make an Easy Homemade Lip Balm

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How do you make an easy homemade lip balm?

Making homemade lip balm is an easy recipe for beginner skincare creators. The process is only a few steps that mainly require weighing ingredients and heating them.

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Most of the ingredients in this easy homemade lip balm are oil. There is no water in this recipe, meaning that you do not need to add a preservative. 

The ingredients in this easy homemade lip balm recipe are clean and natural.

Ingredients to Make an Easy Homemade Lip Balm

Knowing how to make an easy homemade lip balm depends on the ingredients. Understanding the ingredients you are using is important.

The ingredients in the heat and cool-down phase are all clean and natural ingredients. Each one serves a specific purpose in adding more moisture to your skin or healing dry, chapped lips.

Some of the ingredients can be substituted out for other ingredients that contain similar properties. The substitutions are listed under each ingredient.

For example, this is a homemade lip balm without coconut oil. If you would like to use coconut oil as a substitution for jojoba or sunflower seed oil, you may.

Heat Phase

The heat phase consists of the ingredients you will be heating in a double boiler. You will be heating these ingredients so they melt and blend.

When looking for ingredients for a lip balm, you want to focus on hydration and healing. People use lip balms when lips are chapped or dry. 

When someone’s lips are chapped, they need ingredients that will aid in healing the skin.

Likewise, when a person’s lips are dry, they want ingredients that add hydration to the lips.

Shea Butter

Using shea butter in lip balm is a wonderful way to give your lips extra hydration. Shea butter is known for its moisturizing properties.

Shea butter in lip balm also helps heal chapped lips because it contains fatty acids and antioxidants. The fatty acids in shea butter help keep the skin hydrated, and they form a protective layer over the skin.

It also contains three vitamins: A, E, and F.

Vitamin F aids in soothing and healing chapped or dry skin.

White Beeswax

To make this easy homemade lip balm, you will need to add wax to help it stay hard when in the tube. In this recipe, we are using white beeswax. 

What kind of wax can you use in a lip balm? The main waxes in lip balm recipes are white or yellow beeswax and candelilla wax. 

Beeswax contains healing components that make it the perfect ingredient for lip balms. 

Sunflower Seed Oil

Sunflower seed oil will add hydration and healing effects to your lip balm. This oil acts as a protective emollient on the skin, helping stop moisture from leaving the skin.

It also contains oleic acid and vitamin E, which help wounds heal. Meaning this oil is perfect for healing chapped lips.

Jojoba Oil

Jojoba oil is different from other oils because it mimics the sebum in the skin. This oil is perfect for all skin types.

Rich in fatty acids, jojoba oil helps restore dry and chapped lips. The fatty acids in jojoba oil are oleic, lignoceric, and gondoic acid. All of these acids aid in hydrating dry lips.

Cool-Down Phase

After your oils are heated and combined, you can add in your cool-down phase. 

You do not want to let your oils cool down too much. If they start to cool, the oils and beeswax will begin to harden, and you will not be able to pour the homemade lip balm into the tubes. 

You will start to add in your cool-down phase at 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

If you want to add essential oils to your recipe, you may do that in the cool-down phase.

Vitamin E Oil

Vitamin E oil acts as an antioxidant in your easy homemade lip balm recipe.

The reason you are not able to add this ingredient to the heat phase is because vitamin E is sensitive to high temperatures.

You will add your vitamin E oil to the lip balm when it reaches 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

Vitamin E in homemade lip balm acts as an antioxidant. 

Tools You Will Need

The equipment you use makes a difference when creating an easy homemade lip balm. 

These tools will help you accurately weigh out your ingredients and keep them safe and pure.

For example, if you hope to let others use your homemade lip balm, you will want to use gloves.

Formulating the Recipe

When making a skincare recipe, you should write it out in percentages before converting it into grams. 

Creating your recipes in percentages helps others convert them into bigger or smaller batches. 

Always have your recipe add up to 100%.

Why should you weigh out your recipe in grams instead of ounces? Grams are a smaller measurement than ounces. Using grams will give you an exact and accurate recipe every time.