Make Lip Balm Without Beeswax or Vaseline

Creating your own lip balm means that you can customize its moisturizing effects, keep it cost effective, and only use the ingredients you want to use. Many people choose to avoid Vaseline, as it is petroleum jelly, a by-product of the oil industry, and many vegans choose to avoid bee products like beeswax. Luckily, you can create great lip balms with a variety of ingredients.

Steps

Making Peppermint Lip Balm

1. Gather your materials. Homemade lip balm is highly customizable, and many different ingredients can serve the same purposes in a recipe.
   • You’ll need Candelilla wax to make your lip balm solid. Candelilla wax is a plant-based wax, from the stems of the Candelilla shrub, that is an alternative to beeswax in cosmetic recipes. You can order it online.
   • In addition to Candelilla, you’ll need a solid butter (shea, mango, or cocoa) and a type of liquid oil (olive, sunflower, avocado, sweet almond, apricot kernel).
   • For scent, you’ll need peppermint essential oil, which you can find online or at most natural foods stores. Feel free to substitute another essential oil or leave out the essential oil for an unscented balm.
   • For your balm, you’ll need containers. For this recipe, you can uses lip balm tubes, which you can order inexpensively online, or tins, based on your preference. The base recipe makes about 8 tubes worth of lip balm.
2. Melt your oils. Heat up about an inch of water on your stove in the bottom pan of a double boiler. Place 3 tablespoons of your liquid oil, 1/2 a tablespoon of Candelilla wax, and 1 tablespoon of your solid butter in the top part of the double boiler.
   • Melt your ingredients on low heat, and stir occasionally.
   • For a shinier lip balm, add in ½ tablespoon of castor oil as a part of your 3 tablespoons of liquid oil.
   • Make sure the mixture is completely liquified, and then take this pan off the heat. Let it cool for just a few minutes.
3. Stir in 5 to 10 drops of peppermint essential oil. Essential oils should always be added in after the main heating process, as heat can speed up the oxidation process in essential oils and cause them to go rancid more quickly.
   • Add in more or less essential oil to your taste. This will depend on how strongly scented you want your balm to be.
4. Pour the balm into your containers. If you plan to use lip balm tubes, it can be helpful to get a lip balm filling tray that will hold your tubes upright as you pour your balm into them.
   • If you are using tins, simply fill them almost to the top.
   • Use a funnel to make your lip balm easier to pour.
5. Allow your balm to cool. You want to leave your balm in place as it cools and hardens, so that it doesn’t harden in a lopsided shape.
   • To speed up the cooling process, you can put your lip balm in the refrigerator, once it has cooled somewhat.
   • Label your lip balm, and write the date on it.

Making a Simple Lip Balm with Coconut Oil

1. Invest in a quality coconut oil. Coconut oil is a great product to use on its own as a balm because it is moisturizing, completely non-toxic and natural, and has antibacterial and antifungal properties.
   • When choosing your coconut oil, you want oil that is unrefined. It should state this on the jar, and should have a slight odor of coconut.
   • You can find quality coconut oil in the natural foods section of grocery stores, in vitamin shops, and online.
2. Find a tin. Because coconut oil is semi-solid oil, you want to pour it into tin or jar, rather than a lip balm tube. At a normal indoor room temperature, coconut oil is solid, but it melts at 78 degrees Fahrenheit.
   • You can find small cosmetic jars at most natural foods stores.
   • You can also repurpose a tin for your lip balm. For example, Altoid tins make great containers for lip balm.
   • If you’re going to take your balm out in the heat, make sure to keep it in a container that seals tightly so the oil doesn’t leak out.
3. Melt a few tablespoons of coconut oil. You can melt coconut oil over a double boiler or in the microwave.
   • If you use the microwave to melt your oil, heat it in increments of 20 seconds, stirring between each heating.
   • The oil should be a clear liquid with no solid pieces left.
4. Add scent or tint to your balm. If you prefer a plain balm, you can leave your oil as is. However, if you want something a little more luxurious, you can make your lip balm scented or give it a slight color.
   • For scent, use the essential oil of your choice. Use 1 to 2 drops of essential oil for each tablespoon of coconut oil. You can also use vanilla extract to make a vanilla lip balm, using a few drops per tablespoon of oil.
   • For color, melt a small piece of an old lipstick into your coconut oil, and stir it thoroughly.
   • For a natural alternative, use a pigmented vegetable like beets. To make a pink tint, simmer a cubed beet with three tablespoons of vegetable glycerin on low heat for thirty minutes. You can find vegetable glycerin at natural foods stores like Whole Foods.
   • After the mixture simmers, strain out the beet, and add some of the now-colored glycerin to your melted coconut oil.
5. Pour the coconut oil into your tin, and allow it to cool. If your tin or jar is small, you can use a funnel to make the pouring process less messy.
   • Put your finished balm in the refrigerator to make it cool more quickly.
   • You can even permanently store your coconut oil balm in the fridge. This will keep it solid even during hot days, and it will give you something refreshingly cold to put on your lips.

Making a Green Tea Sun-Protectant Lip Balm

1. Gather your ingredients. You can use either balm tubes or tins for this lip balm with natural SPF, but tins work best. Made in larger quantities, it can also serve as a sunscreen balm for your whole body.
   • You’ll need green tea, unrefined coconut oil, Candelilla wax, honey, and avocado oil.
   • Zinc oxide, which you can order online, powder provides the primary sun protection.
   • If you don’t want to use honey, you can substitute an equal amount of natural aloe vera gel, either scraped straight from the leaf or store-bought. You can substitute another liquid oil, such as sweet almond or olive oil, in place of the avocado oil.
2. Infuse your coconut oil with green tea. Green tea has healing and soothing properties that make it a great addition to a sun-protectant balm.
   • To infuse, melt a cup of unrefined coconut oil in a double boiler, and then stir in 2 tablespoons of loose green tea into the oil.
   • Cover the mixture, and let it simmer on low for 1 hour. After an hour, strain the tea out of the oil with a fine mesh strainer or cheesecloth.
3. Combine oil and wax. You’ll need two tablespoons of your green tea-infused oil (you can store the rest in the fridge) and ½ teaspoon of Candelilla wax. Heat these together in a double boiler over medium-low heat.
   • When the wax is completely melted, take them off of the stove.
4. Stir in the honey, avocado oil, and zinc. Once you take your oil off the stove, you need to add in the rest of the ingredients in your sun balm.
   • Add 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 teaspoon of avocado oil, and 2 teaspoons of zinc oxide powder.
   • Stir until ingredients are completely combined.
5. Blend your balm with a hand mixer. This step will make your sun-protectant lip balm creamy and airy. If you want to pour your balm into lip balm tubes, skip this step, and pour the liquid directly into the tubes.
   • Wait until the balm has begun to solidify and then blend.
   • Once your balm becomes fluffy, scoop it into the container of your choice, and label.

Tips

• You can substitute Candelilla wax for beeswax in any lip balm recipe. Simply use half the amount of Candelilla wax as you would beeswax, and leave the rest of the ingredients at the same ratio.

Things You'll Need

Peppermint lip balm:

• Lip balm tubes or tins
• Candelilla wax
• Solid butter (cocoa, mango or shea)
• Liquid oil (avocado, olive, sweet almond, or sunflower)
• Peppermint essential oil

Coconut oil lip balm:

• Unrefined coconut oil
• Tin
• Essential oils for scent (optional)
• Old lipstick or beets and glycerin for tint (optional)

Green tea sun-protectant lip balm:

• Tins or lip balm tubes
• Loose-leaf green tea
• Unrefined coconut oil
• Candelilla wax
• Zinc oxide powder
• Honey or aloe vera gel
• Avocado oil

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• Make Tinted Lip Balm
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