A simple DIY lip balm recipe for silky soft smooth lips using only natural ingredients, including beeswax, sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, cocoa butter, vitamin E oil, and essential oil.

For me, any change of the season – whether it be summer or winter – brings out the dry, chapped lips. But, on top of that, I’m a compulsive lip biter. Whenever I’m unsure, anxious, or bored, I bite and pick at my lips.

I used to use a lip balm brand called Blistex, but I wanted something more natural as their products contain some toxic ingredients like phenol, saccharin, parabens, fragrance, oxybenzone, mineral oil, paraffin, and petrolatum.

Once you start making your own natural products, like lip balm, it eventually becomes second nature, and the DIYs are actually a lot of fun to customise and experiment with, using different natural ingredients to create something completely your own! Before you know it, you’ll be making your own natural deodorant and mud shampoo!

Homemade Creamy Lip Balm

To make a thicker, harder lip balm, use one to two extra teaspoons of wax or, for a smoother, softer lip balm, use slightly less wax, more cocoa butter, and more oil.

As there are no water-based ingredients in this recipe, you can re-melt and add more of each ingredient during the melting process until you get the exact consistency/texture you want.

Now, I don’t recommend use soy wax as it’s very challenging to find a completely clean soy wax that is made from 100% organic soy (they often add chemicals like paraffin to the wax, or it comes from GMO soy). I’ve found candelilla wax to be a great vegan alternative to beeswax, and find it works just as well.

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp beeswax
• 2 tbsp cocoa butter
• 2 tbsp sweet almond oil
• 1 tbsp jojoba oil
• 5 drops vitamin E oil
• 10 drops peppermint essential
• Lip balm tubes or small lip balm tins

To make:

1. Make a double boiler by placing a small saucepan filled with a couple of inches of water over medium heat, and bring to the boil. Then place a heat-safe bowl (that fits on top of the saucepan) on top. The bottom of the bowl should not be touching the water below.
2. Melt the beeswax, cocoa butter, sweet almond oil, and jojoba oil in the bowl, stirring regularly throughout until melted.
3. Remove from heat but keep the bowl over the still-hot water to keep the mixture melted, then add in the vitamin E oil and stir through.
4. Add the essential oil and stir through.
5. Immediately begin transferring the hot mixture into your empty lip balm containers using a teaspoon. This must be done quickly as the mixture will start to harden as soon as it’s removed from heat.
6. Once filled, let the containers sit at room temperature for several hours until completely cool, then place the lids on and store in the balm in places where it’ll be on-hand to use when needed (I keep one in my backpack, one in my handbag, one in my purse, and one in my bathroom). Glass or tin containers are a preferred option to store this lip balm in, as plastic leaches chemicals into whatever’s stored inside, particularly if stored for long periods of time, or if the contents are fatty or hot.

As always, this is not personal medical advice and we recommend that you talk with your doctor before trying or using any new products. I am not a doctor. All opinions expressed are my own personal thoughts and feelings of the products mentioned. Check with your doctor or health practitioner if you are uncertain about trying out any of the products, recipes or tips mentioned in this post.

Have you made lip balm or other natural beauty products before? What were they like? Share in the comments below.

Lots of love,

Vanessa