It is only takes a few ingredients to simply make your own lip balm. Below are homemade lip balm recipes that use honey or avocados, both having different nutritious properties and benefits.

A basic lip balm recipe will contain 1 carrier oil, beeswax, flavoring and vitamin E. A carrier oil helps dilute the other oils in the recipe.

Carrier Oils:

• Sunflower oil
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• Coconut Oil
• Almond Oil
• Castor Oil

Beeswax gives the mixture that waxy feeling needed to apply it on the lips. Vitamin E is added to help preserve the homemade beeswax lip balm.

Basic Natural Lip Balm Recipe

• 3 tablespoon of a carrier oil of your choice
• 1 tablespoon beeswax
• 1 teaspoon of flavoring: peppermint, vanilla, etc. extract oil.
• 1 Vitamin E capsule

To melt the ingredients you are going to need to make a hot water bath. Place the beeswax, the carrier oil and the flavoring oil in a bowl. Grab a saucepan and fill it with hot water. Place the bowl in the hot water to melt the contents, mix well. Afterwards take the bowl out of the water and break open the Vitamin E capsule and add the oil to the mixture, stir well.

Homemade Honey Lip Balm Recipe

Honey is a great ingredient to use to make an all natural lip balm. This is because honey helps retain moisture, which is why it is used a lot in our post:  Create a Natural Face Moisturizer At Home With Honey, Avocados, or Aloe Vera.

Here is how to make homemade lip balm using honey:

• 3 tablespoons of a carrier oil (almond oil works best, followed by olive oil)
• 1 tablespoon of beeswax
• 1 tablespoon of honey
• 1 Vitamin E capsule

Heat the carrier oil and beeswax in a hot water bath (put the ingredients in a bowl and palce the bowl in a saucepan of hot water). Stir well while the beeswax is melting. After it has melted and mixed, take the mixture off of the heat then add in and mix together the honey and break open the Vitamin E capsule to add in the oil.

Homemade Avocado Lip Balm

Avocados are great to use in homemade skin products because of their high levels of Vitamin E.

• 3 tablespoons of a carrier oil
• 1 tablespoon of beeswax
• 1 tablespoon of avocado oil
• ½ tablespoon of mango butter

Create the water bath just like in the recipes above. Melt the beeswax and mix in the carrier oil and the avocado oil.

There is a lot of room to experiment. For example, you can use more than one carrier oil – just have a ratio of 3 units of carrier oil to 1 unit beeswax. If your homemade lip balm is too soft for your liking, you can always place it into another water bath to melt it down and add in more beeswax to make it harder, while adding in more carrier oil will make it softer.

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