How to make lip balm with safe natural ingredients

With this lip balm recipe, you are free to create your favorite color and scent for your tinted lip balm box. With all natural ingredients, even children can apply a little lip balm. This will be a very cute gift for friends and family.

To do this you need the following ingredients:

– 2 large spoons of coconut oil

– 1 tablespoon olive oil (or jojoba oil, almond oil, argan oil, …)

– 2 tablespoons shea butter (or cocoa butter)

– 2 large spoons of beeswax

– 1 teaspoon of vitamin E

– 8-20 drops of essential oil (orange essential oil, grapefruit essential oil, coriander, flowers, … as you like)

– 1-2 teaspoons beetroot powder or hibiscus flower powder, or mica powder (If it is mica powder, it can be mixed directly into lipstick without extracting). If you don’t like tinted lip balm, you don’t need to prepare this ingredient.

– If you like, you can add 2 large spoons of petals (fresh or dried) chopped to make the lipstick more beautiful.

How to make lip balm as follows:

Step 1: Extract colors

*If you don’t like tinted lip balm, you can skip this step.

– Heat a glass of oil in a water bath (You can use almond oil or sunflower seed oil).

– Add a beetroot or coloring ingredients and stir until the oil color is satisfactory.

– Filter out the powder, put this oil in a clean glass.

Step 2: Make lipstick

– Store the mixture of beeswax, coconut oil, olive oil, shea butter in a dry glass bowl, remember to be dry.

– Cook this mixture in a water bath and be careful not to drop any water into the mixture or you can also put the mixture in the microwave.

– Reduce the heat to low and stir well to combine.

– Turn off the heat, quickly mix in vitamin E, essential oils, and coloring oils prepared earlier.

– Pour liquid lipstick into the container and let it cool down before you can use it.

Step 3: Preserve

– Close the lid of the lipstick box and store it in a cool, dry place, away from sunlight or high temperature.

– Homemade lip balm can be used for about 3 to 6 months.

Some information about materials used

1. Natural color

Beetroot powder, rose petal powder, gac powder: It is difficult to mix this powder directly into lipstick, you need to extract the color from this powder into the oil and then mix this oil into the lipstick. Suitable oils for color extraction are: almond oil, sunflower seed oil, macadamia nut oil.

Mica Powder: Mica is a mineral found in nature then purified and ground into a fine powder. It can form colorful, bright and sparkling powder. Used to create glitter and glitter for homemade cosmetics.

2. Base material for lip balm

The basic ingredients of lip balms are usually made from: Beeswax, pure vegetable oil (the fluidity or consistency of the oil affects the softness of the lipstick, so choose whichever oil you prefer), vitamin E, shea butter, …

Beeswax: This is a very good moisturizing and lip protection ingredient, has antibacterial ability, so it helps the lipstick to last longer with a gentle sweet scent that will make girls love it.

Coconut oil: Has good antiseptic ability, and is rich in nutrients and fatty acids to help nourish lips to become soft and shiny. This ingredient is quite easy to combine with the rest of the ingredients.

Olive Oil: Olive oil’s silky smoothness is enhanced by its ability to condition lips with oleic acid.

Shea butter or cocoa butter: It is responsible for helping lipstick to thicken, smooth and enhance maximum moisturizing.

Vitamin E: Both to nourish lips more rosy, anti-aging, and to act as a natural preservative for lipstick.

So Vuivui.com has introduced to you how to make lip balm with natural ingredients that are extremely safe for you. With this homemade lipstick will be a very meaningful gift for your friends and relatives.

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