DIY Lip Balm Recipe (Bubble Gum)

This DIY lip balm recipe is a bubble gum lip balm recipe. It is one of my favorite DIY lip skincare products. Being a bubble gum collector as a child, I remember scouting the candy aisle for the latest greatest bubble gum invention. So this nostalgic smelling bubble gum flavored lip balm is for all the bubble gum enthusiast – young and old alike.

Ingredients

Besides having the fun smell of bubble gum, this DIY lip balm recipe is a nourishing skincare blend designed to prevent and to treat dry lips. It can be used alone or in combination with the DIY Bubble Gum Lip Scrub. This yummy smelling bubble gum DIY lip balm recipe is also prepared with cocoa butter, almond oil, beeswax, flavor oil, and colorant.

1. Cocoa Butter

An unscented cocoa butter is used to prepare this DIY lip balm recipe. So, the lip balm does not have a cocoa butter scent. Cocoa butter is a thick non-greasy butter that coats and moisturizes the outer layer of the lips well. It creates a type of barrier from the harsh winter elements. The cocoa butter also contains antioxidants to combat free radicals. Therefore, it can help keep your lips looking young and healthy.

2. Almond Oil

Almond oil is also filled with skin nourishing benefits. This oil allows the DIY lip balm recipe to glide across your lips easily and smoothly. It penetrates the skin surface more easily, providing an additional layer of moisture and protection.

3. Beeswax

Beeswax is an all-natural ingredient that comes from bees. This wax is an humectant that can attract moisture from the air to hydrate your lips. It also plays a role in keeping the ingredients used to prepare this bubble gum DIY lip balm recipe together.

4. Flavor Oil

A bubble gum flavor oil is needed to prepare this recipe. Since lip balm goes onto the lips, it needs to be one of the lip safe flavor oils.

5. Colorant

The colorant is completely optional. However, a bubble gum pink colored DIY lip balm recipe is a lot more entertaining than no color at all. Especially when it is a bubble gum flavored DIY lip balm recipe

Bubble Gum Lip Balm Recipe:

• 1 tbsp. Unscented Cocoa Butter
• 1/2 tsp. Almond Oil
• 1/2 tsp. White Beeswax
• 9 drop Bubble Gum Flavor Oil for Lips
• 1/16 tsp. Pink Mica Powder for Lips
• 3 Lip Balm Tubes

How To Prepare

1. Place the cocoa butter, almond oil, and beeswax in a small glass measuring cup with a handle and a pourable spout.
2. Then microwave the butter, oil, and wax in 30 -40 second intervals.
3. Stop the microwave to stir the butter, oil, and wax at each interval.
4. When the ingredients are liquid, add the bubble gum flavor oil and pink colorant.
5. Stir the mixture well and then pour the mixture into your lip balm tubes.
6. Let the bubble gum DIY lip balm recipe sit in a cool room to harden.
7. Then, the lip balm is ready to use.

Applying The Lip Balm

1. When ready to use, apply the bubble gum DIY lip balm recipe on clean dry lips. Follow up with the bubble gum DIY lip scrub as needed to remove rough patches of skin.

Conclusion

Although this is not a therapeutic essential oil, the smell of a bubble gum lip balm can brighten your day in a nostalgic kind of way. You can find more DIY lip balm recipes or DIY lip scrub recipes that you may like. In the meantime, enjoy making and using the bubble gum DIY lip balm recipe!

DIY Lip Balm Recipe (Banana)

This DIY lip balm recipe is a lip balm recipe prepared without using any essential oils. As much as I like and encourage the use of essential oils to capture some of their aromatherapy benefits and skin nourishing benefits, sometimes adding a yummy lip flavor oil is just what you need. So, when making a DIY lip balm recipe without essential oil, this banana flavored lip balm is at the top of my list. It smells just like a banana, which is one of my favorite aromas.

As a child, I thought that eating chewy banana flavored candy was the best thing ever. Then, as I got older, the banana muffins and banana breads became a favorite. Now, as a mature adult on a low carb diet, I get to enjoy this banana flavored DIY lip balm recipe without feeling any guilt. So, let’s talk about the ingredients.

Ingredients

This banana DIY lip balm recipe is prepared with cocoa butter, almond oil, beeswax, flavor oil, and colorant.

1. Cocoa Butter

The cocoa butter is a firm moisturizing oil that is commonly used to moisturize the skin. In its raw form, cocoa butter smells a lot like chocolate because it comes from the seed of a chocolate (cacao) fruit. When used in DIY lip balm recipes and other skin care products, the refined unscented cocoa butter is used.

2. Almond Oil

The almond oil helps the lip balm glide across your lips smoothly. It then penetrates the skin of your lips delivering its skin nourishing properties. In this way, your lips get a deep moisturizing treatment when you apply this DIY lip balm recipe. In addition to adding moisture to your lips, almond oil contains antioxidants and vitamins that can help keep your lips looking and feeling healthy.

3. Beeswax

The beeswax is used to help hold the lip balm together and to help hold the moisturizing butters and oils in your lips. So, it is a multi-purpose all-natural ingredient used in this lip balm recipe. You can use a white beeswax or a yellow beeswax. I favor the white beeswax because it is much more versatile when you decide to add color. In this case, the yellow beeswax may be a complimentary color for the banana DIY lip balm recipe.

4. Flavor Oil

A lip safe banana oil is added to this DIY lip balm recipe to give it the yummy banana smell and flavor. There are a lot of banana oils available. However, most are not lip safe oils. Therefore, I have included a direct link to some lip fragrance oils that can be used in your DIY lip balm recipes.

5. Colorant

Adding yellow lip safe powder is completely optional. You can leave the lip balm the off-white color or use a yellow beeswax to give it a yellow color.

Banana Lip Balm Recipe:

• 1 tbsp. Unscented Cocoa Butter
• 1/2 tsp. Almond Oil
• 1/2 tsp. White Beeswax
• 6 drop (Lip Safe) Banana Oil
• Lip Safe (Yellow Colorant)
• 3 Lip Balm Tubes

How To Prepare

1. Place the cocoa butter, almond oil, and beeswax in a glass measuring cup with a pourable spout.
2. Then microwave the butter, oil, and wax in 30 second intervals.
3. Stir the butter, oil, and wax at each interval until the ingredients are all liquid.
4. Lastly, the banana flavor and colorant.
5. Stir well and then pour the mixture into your lip balm tubes.
6. Let the banana DIY lip balm recipe cool completely.
7. Then, it is ready to use.

Applying The Lip Balm

1. Apply the banana DIY lip balm recipe on clean smooth dry lips. As needed, follow up with the banana DIY lip scrub.

Conclusion

Although not a therapeutic essential oil, the smell of a good banana lip balm can brighten your day. You may find another DIY lip balm recipe or DIY lip scrub recipe that you like. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy making and using this yummy smelling banana DIY lip balm recipe!

DIY Peppermint Lip Balm

The refreshing DIY peppermint lip balm recipe is a very popular lip balm choice. It is a popular choice for a variety of reason that may actually have nothing to do with moisturizing your dry chapped lips. While the oils and butters used to make this DIY peppermint lip balm recipe can moisturize and hydrate your lips very well, the peppermint oil plays a different role.

The peppermint essential oil provides an uplifting aroma that alleviates stress while giving a mental boost. This uplifting minty smelling DIY peppermint lip balm recipe can not only give you a little mental boost throughout the day, but it also can give you a little physical boost. Not to mention the invigorating cool sensation that a good DIY peppermint lip balm recipe provides.

Ingredients

The ingredients used to prepare this DIY peppermint lip balm recipe includes cocoa butter, almond oil, beeswax, and peppermint essential oil.

1. Cocoa Butter

Cocoa butter is a deeply penetrating moisturizing oil with anti-inflammatory properties. Therefore, this butter can soothe your dry chapped lips leaving them feeling healthy and hydrated. This butter is also high in antioxidants and known to help reduce the appearance of scars. So, as a natural antioxidant, the vitamin E oil can be omitted. This recipe uses an unscented cocoa butter which is ironically also called a deodorized cocoa butter.

2. Almond Oil

This oil is lightweight and non-greasy, so it is easily absorbed into your lips. In this way, it can prevent chapped lips. It also contains properties that can shield your lips from the harmful effects of the sun. The almond oil is also rich in vitamin E. With this antioxidant, the DIY peppermint lip balm recipe is again naturally well preserved. And last, but not least, it contains antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties to keep your lips looking good and feeling good.

3. Beeswax

Beeswax is the wax from the honeycomb of bees. It is used to both (1) hold moisture in the lips and (2) attract more moisture in the lips. Therefore, it is the perfect emulsifier for the cocoa butter, almond oil, and peppermint essential oil. A white beeswax is used to prepare this minty DIY peppermint lip balm recipe.

4. Peppermint Essential Oil

With a cool minty peppermint essential oil, this DIY peppermint lip balm recipe has a very uplifting aroma. In addition to its uplifting aroma, stress reducing ability, and mental enhancing ability, the smell of peppermint essential oil can help ease cough and congestion.

DIY Peppermint Lip Balm Recipe

• 1 tbsp. Unscented Cocoa Butter
• 1/2 tsp. Almond Oil
• 1/2 tsp. White Beeswax
• 10 drops Peppermint Essential Oil (Food Grade)
• 3 Lip Balm Tubes

Instructions

1. Add cocoa butter, almond oil, and beeswax to a small glass Pyrex measuring cup.
2. Microwave the cocoa butter, almond oil and beeswax in 45 second intervals until everything melts.
3. Then, add the peppermint essential oil and stir well.
4. Next, pour the DIY peppermint oil recipe into your lip balm tubes or a lip balm container.
5. Let the DIY lip balm cool. Then, it will be ready for you to use!
6. The peppermint DIY lip scrub recipe is designed to be used with this DIY lip balm.

Conclusion

This peppermint lip balm is all for now! You may also like the DIY chocolate lip balm, DIY lip balm without coconut oil or the DIY lip balm without beeswax. I hope you enjoy making and using this DIY peppermint lip balm recipe.

DIY Chocolate Lip Balm

The DIY chocolate lip balm recipe is a comforting, cozy smelling winter lip balm. However, chocolate provides so many health benefits that it leaves us wanting more chocolate. Just the smell of chocolate can enhance your mood. So, why not rub it right under your nose with a wonderful DIY chocolate lip balm recipe.

With all that said, this DIY chocolate lip balm recipe is a popular lip balm choice all year long. Chocolate comes from the seed of a cacao fruit. In fact, chocolate is the seed in powder form. Therefore, raw chocolate tastes nothing like the chocolate candy bars that you might grab from the store. Those candy bars have been dressed up with all kinds of yummy things to make them taste and smell wonderful! Well, the same is somewhat true for this DIY chocolate lip balm recipe and the DIY chocolate lip scrub! So, let’s talk about the ingredients.

Ingredients

The ingredient used to prepare this DIY chocolate lip balm recipe includes cocoa butter, almond oil, beeswax, chocolate, and essential oil.

1. Cocoa Butter

Cocoa butter is the fat that surrounds the seed of the cacao fruit. So, all by itself, raw cocoa butter smells a lot like chocolate. This may be wonderful when you are making things like this DIY chocolate lip balm recipe or the DIY cocoa butter lotion bar recipe. However, a refined unscented cocoa butter can be scented in a variety of ways and used in a variety of ways. Therefore, this recipe is prepared with an unscented cocoa butter.

2. Almond Oil

Almond oil is such a smooth finishing oil. Therefore, if feels wonderful as it glides on your lips. For this reason, almond oil is a very popular choice for professional lip balm makers as well as DIY lip balm recipes.

3. Beeswax

As the name suggest, this all-natural wax comes from bees! It has a couple of roles including (1) help hold the moisture in your lips, and (2) help the DIY chocolate lip balm maintain a useful consistency. Yellow beeswax and white beeswax are both sold. However, this recipe needs a white beeswax.

4. Chocolate

A Hershey’s 100% Cacao Powder is used to prepare this DIY chocolate lip balm recipe. All by itself, it smells like and earthy dark chocolate. But, if you were to taste it, it tastes more like a coffee bean than chocolate at this point. So, this is why the sweet-smelling essential oil is required. Cacao powder also creates a pretty natural brown tint. Therefore, this could be an excellent DIY lip balm for dark lips.

5. Essential Oil

When you make homemade chocolate candy recipes or other edible chocolate-inspired recipes, vanilla is always one of the ingredients added. It is one of the main things that make chocolate taste and smell like delicious chocolate. For this reason, this DIY chocolate lip balm recipe is prepared with a wonderful yummy smelling vanilla essential oil.

DIY Chocolate Lip Balm Recipe:

• 1 tbsp. Unscented Cocoa Butter
• 1/2 tsp. Almond Oil
• 1/2 tsp. White Beeswax
• 1/4 tsp. Hershey’s Cacao Powder
• 12 drop Vanilla Essential Oil (Food Grade)
• 3 Lip Balm Tubes

Instructions

1. Place the cocoa butter, almond oil, and beeswax in a small glass Pyrex measuring cup.
2. Microwave in 45 second intervals until the butter, oil and wax melts.
3. Stir well. Then, add the vanilla essential oil and Hershey’s cacao powder to the melted mixture.
4. Stir well and then pour into your lip balm tubes or lip balm containers.
5. Let the lip balm cool and then it is ready to use!

Conclusion

That is all for now! You may also like the DIY lip balm without coconut oil or the DIY lip balm without beeswax. I hope you enjoy making and using this DIY chocolate lip balm recipe soon.

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DIY Lip Balm Without Coconut Oil

As much l enjoy using coconut oil in everything, this is a DIY lip balm without coconut oil. While coconut oil comes with numerous health benefits for the skin, it can definitely be a little temperamental to work with. This is especially true when it comes to making things like a DIY lip balm recipe. In really cool temperatures, coconut oil becomes a really hard oil. Then, when it gets above 70^oF it is completely liquid. Nevertheless, a DIY lip balm with coconut oil is totally doable. But for now, I will share this DIY lip balm without coconut oil.

Ingredients:

The wonderful thing is that there are all kinds of wonder oils and butters that we have been provided with! You can experiment with several of them to see which combination of oils and butters work best for you. This DIY lip balm without coconut oil is prepared with cocoa butter, almond oil, beeswax, and essential oil.

1. Cocoa Butter

Cocoa butter is a firm moisturizing oil. It has an all-natural chocolatey aroma. Being the oil that surrounds the seed of a cacao (chocolate) fruit, the wonderful aroma is no longer a surprise. However, in many cases, you may want to add your own flavor to your DIY lip balm without coconut oil. Therefore, a refined unscented cocoa butter can be used for its great properties and texture without the distinct cocoa butter aroma.

2. Almond Oil

Almond oil is another popular moisturizing oil that is used in many professional lip balm recipes and in this DIY lip balm without coconut oil recipe. It is a thin oil that helps the lip balm glide on easily and smoothly as it delivers its skin nourishing benefits.

3. Beeswax

Beeswax helps hold the DIY lip balm without coconut oil together. After applying the DIY lip balm without coconut oil, the beeswax also helps hold the moisture in your lips. You can used white beeswax or yellow beeswax. Either one will work, but the lip balm color will be different.

4. Vanilla Essential Oil

When using an unscented cocoa butter, you can add any lip safe flavor oil or essential oil that you want. Vanilla essential oil is a uplifting fragrance that gives you a little pick me up each time to put a layer of this DIY lip balm without coconut oil on your lips. However, there are several essential oils that I enjoy using in the DIY lip balm recipes for their different properties. Some of my favorite essential oils for lips are orange, peppermint, vanilla, rosemary, lavender and spearmint.

DIY Lip Balm Without Coconut Oil

• 1 tbsp. Unscented Cocoa Butter
• 1/2 tsp. Almond Oil
• 1/2 tsp. White Beeswax
• 6 drop Vanilla Essential Oil
• 3 Lip Balm Tubes

How To Prepare

1. Place the cocoa butter, almond oil and beeswax in a glass Pyrex cup to microwave in 30 second intervals.
2. Stir the butter, oil, and wax at each interval until melted completely.
3. Lastly, stir in the essential oil
4. Pour the mixture into your lip balm tubes.
5. Let it cool.

Applying The Lip Balm

1. Apply the DIY lip balm without coconut oil on clean smooth dry lips.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoy making and using this DIY lip balm recipe! It is a wonderful combination that can be used any time of year. You may also like the DIY lip balm recipe without beeswax because it too is a DIY lip balm without coconut oil.

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DIY Lip Balm Recipe Without Beeswax

This DIY lip balm recipe without beeswax is a vegan lip balm recipe that goes on incredibly smooth. Even without the beeswax this DIY lip balm recipe formula provides an excellent protective barrier for keeping the moisture in your lips during the cold winter months. It leaves your lips feeling moist and supple while helping to prevent dry cracked lips.

Ingredients:

There are only 2-ingredients used to make this vegan lip balm. The ingredients used to make this DIY lip balm recipe without beeswax includes a rich blend of: (1) mango butter and (2) essential oil.

1. Mango Butter

Mango butter is a very nourishing butter that is extracted from the seed of the mango fruit. It is very comparable to cocoa butter with regards to its texture and firmness. But mango is a little bit creamier and smoother than cocoa butter. It too is a solid at normal room temperatures, but melts easily when applied to warm skin. This butter contains beneficial antioxidants including vitamin A, C, and E. Therefore, this DIY lip balm recipe without beeswax can not only help keep your lips feeling good, but also help keep them looking good! A refined unscented mango butter is used to make this recipe.

2. Essential Oil

There are many types of lip safe essential oils that can be used in this DIY lip balm recipe without beeswax. You can use a 2-3 small drops of almond oil or fractionated coconut oil with the refined mango butter recipe to keep the flavor neutral and vegan. However, you can also add a few drops of essential oil to this DIY lip balm recipe to keep it all natural and vegan with some flavor and addition lip nourishing benefits. Some lip safe essential oils that can be used are: orange, vanilla, clary sage, peppermint, geranium, lavender, rose, spearmint, and tangerine essential oil.

This DIY lip balm recipe without beeswax is prepared with a wonderful combination of orange essential oil and vanilla essential oil. So it has a lovely subtle, vanilla orange aroma. Mango butter makes an incredibly creamy and smooth DIY lip balm recipe without beeswax. While it is the perfect consistency by itself in cooler weather, it may need a wax to firm things up in warmer months. So, you can make the lip balm recipe with a vegan soy wax or a vegan candelilla wax instead of a beeswax. Another option is to pour the lip balm into squeezable lip balm tubes. In this way, the lip balm stays contained and usable in the event that it periodically melts when exposed to warmer climates.

DIY Lip Balm Recipe:

• 1 tbsp. Refined Mango Butter
• 3 drops Orange Essential Oil
• 1 drop Vanilla Essential Oil
• 2 Lip Balm Tubes
• 1/4 tsp. Vegan Soy Wax or Vegan Candelilla Wax (Optional)

Instructions:

1. Place the needed amount of mango butter in the microwave for 30 seconds.
2. Use a utensil to stir the mango butter. Heat again in 20-30 second intervals until the mango butter melts completely.
3. Then add your drops of essential oil to the melted mango butter and stir well.
4. Now pour the mixture into a lip balm container.
5. Leave the container in a cool room to reharden.

To Use:

1. Apply the lip balm to clean dry lips.

Conclusion

This is a simple lovely smelling DIY lip balm recipe for winter, spring, summer, or fall! The orange essential oil can also be used to make the DIY orange soap and the DIY face wash for acne prone skin. The vanilla essential oil can be used to make the vanilla lotion bar recipe. That is all for now! I hope you enjoy making and using this DIY lip balm recipe without beeswax.

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