Natural Tinted Lip Balm Recipe with Skin Protectants Lanolin & Beeswax!
Keep lips looking and feeling great with this natural tinted lip balm recipe that protects lips and soothes dry or chapped lips. Natural ingredients come together to to help keep lips moisturized to protect against chapping while a tiny hint of sheer color lends lips a healthy glow.
Natural Tinted Lip Balm Recipe
Ingredients:
.25 oz. grapeseed oil
.15 oz. sunflower oil
.1 oz. refined (76° melt point) coconut oil
.2 oz. beeswax
.05 oz. lanolin
1/4 teaspoon alkanet root powder
10 drops spearmint essential oil
6 drops peppermint essential oil
Instructions:
To create this natural tinted lip balm recipe, you’ll begin by using a digital scale to weigh out the beeswax. Place in double boiler or in a small one cup glass Pyrex measuring cup and heat at 50% power until the beeswax has melted fully.
Now weigh out the lanolin and coconut oil and mix into the melted beeswax. You may need to heat the mixture again so all of the ingredients are liquified.
Measure out the alkanet root powder with a measuring spoon and stir into the hot melted beeswax, lanolin and coconut oil. (This winter lip balm recipe, while it looks dark, actually goes on very sheer with just a tiny hint of red. For darker color use more alkanet root powder. Alternately you may omit it altogether if you want a completely clear product.)
Next, weigh the grape seed and sunflower oils and stir into the other ingredients.
Use a dropper or transfer pipette to add the essential oils. Give one final stir then pour into empty lip balm tubes. Allow to cool completely then decorate your tubes as desired. (I used this clip art from Citrus & Mint.)
This heal and protect winter lip balm recipe yields five lip balms. To use simply apply to lips as desired.
If you like this recipe you may also like my Winter Mint Moisturizing Hair Mask Recipe and my Neem Oil & Bee Pollen Skin Cream Recipe. Or try my new Anti Aging Night Cream Recipe for dry and mature skin.
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6 Comments
maddie
January 28, 2015 at 10:34 am
sounds like it would be great but who can mesure .5 oz or .1 ?
Rebecca D. Dillon
January 28, 2015 at 5:28 pm
Most digital scales will give you the weight in ounces for as little as .01 oz.
Dawnia
January 30, 2015 at 6:44 pm
hi,
This looks great, but I was wondering what I could sub for the lanolin. Need to make it now, and don’t have any.
Is it lanolin that is a thick liquid, or more of a paste? I’ve seen both forms.
Thanks!!
Rebecca D. Dillon
January 30, 2015 at 7:09 pm
Lanolin is closet to the consistency of petroleum jelly. That would be the closet substitution that I know of. It’s regular pure lanolin not liquid lanolin.
Lena
February 28, 2015 at 10:02 am
this looks great, but how do I do it with no scale?
Rebecca D. Dillon
February 28, 2015 at 5:54 pm
You have to have a scale.
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