3 Homemade Lip Balm Recipes

Lip balms protect your lips from the drying effect of the cold, wind and heating. They also heal chapped and dry lips. And they can easily be made at home too! Here’s a few recipes you can try:

1. Jojoba Oil Lip Balm

Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoons of beeswax
- 2 ¼ tsp of jojoba oil
- grapefruit essential oil
- a small container

Melt the ingredients together and stir.
Remove it from heat and add six drops of grapefruit essential oil.
Pour the mixture into the container and let it cool for about 20 minutes.

2. Lemon Oil Lip Balm:

- ½ teaspoon of beeswax
- a teaspoon of petrolatum jelly
- 3 drops of lemon oil
- a small container

Melt the beeswax, add the petrolatum jelly and then the lemon drops.
Pour it into a container and let it cool for about 20 minutes.

3. Honey Lip Balm

Ingredients:
- 1 Tablespoon of petroleum jelly
- 1/3 Teaspoon of honey
- a small container

Melt the petrolatum jelly and honey together. Mix well and pour the mixture in the container. Let it cool.

Tips:

• To melt the ingredients together, you can either use a double boiler, or put them in the microwave.
• Let the wax mixture cool a bit before adding the essential oils, as they break apart when added to a hot mixture.
• You can either put your homemade lipbalm in a small pot or a tube. To put it in the tube, use a plastic pipette, but you need to be fast or the balm will harden in it.
• There are several types of beeswax available on the market. To make your own lipbalm I recommend pure and filtered beeswax. Pure means that it’s 100% beeswax, while filtered means the wax has been processed to get rid of any impurities such as dirt or pollen. If you want, you can use beeswax pellets, but they tend to be a bit more expensive.

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