It’s fun and easy to make your own lip balm!
I’ll walk you through one of my favorite recipes for chapped lips. When you make your own lip balm, the basic idea is to first melt your coconut oil and beeswax, then add in the shea butter, and lastly add the essential oil. Let the blend stand and harden for a few hours before use. These make great gifts!
Lip Balm Recipe:
- 1 oz of beeswax
- 1.5 oz of coconut oil
- 0.5 oz of shea butter
- 1 oz of jojoba oil
- 20 drops of Orange essential oil (Citrus sinensis)
This makes about 24 lip balms if the tube is 5 mL (1/6 oz).
Measure the jojoba, butters and beeswax by weight. I use a small kitchen scale.
Melt the coconut oil and beeswax in a double boiler.* When everything is melted, add in the jojoba and stir with a glass stirring rod, then take off the stove. Add the shea butter and stir again until the shea is melted, then add the Orange oil and pour immediately into the lip balm tubes. It helps a lot to have a lip balm tray to hold the tubes in place while you pour the hot liquid! It also helps to have some plastic pipettes (like you used in chemistry class!), which can reduce the chance of spills.
Remember to let them solidify before you use them. I let mine cool for several hours. I hope you love them!
At Aromahead Institute, we offer a free online class to learn about essential oils: Introduction to Essential Oils. We also offer a more in-depth class about blending body butters and lip balms (called “Body Butters and Lip Balms“–imagine that!).
*For a home-made double boiler, try using a Pyrex measuring cup rested in a soup pot. Add the ingredients to the Pyrex cup. Then fill the soup pot partly up with water, place the measuring cup in the water, and bring to a gentle boil. The boiling water provides the heat for melting the beeswax, coconut oil and jojoba oil.
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Thanks. Where could I get the containers (pot or tube)?
I like the recipe. I will remember it and will be sure to use it.
Thanks for this! They will be great for my kids.
I want to try this with my daughter, she loves “lips” so she would love to have a part in making some.
this would be interesting to make! thanks for the recipe.
Hmmm, which post to comment on? There are so many good ones! Love to make lip balms and have found that making lip balms with teens is a great class project.
Sounds like a good recipe to make with my girly girl daughters.
Can’t wait to try this. My lil’ one loves her lip balm!
I have terribly dry lips and have a really hard time finding something that keeps them soft. Is there anything as another additive I could add to your recipe that would help that even more?
I will make for my clientes. Thanks. I looooove your site and tips. i live in Brazil.
This will be an easy, fun project to do with my kids! These would be great for gift baskets
Really love this. I love the idea of working with fresh raw ingredients to create things that we buy at the store but with the benefit of being self cultivating with new skills and simple ingredients
I’m looking forward making our own lip balms. I’d like to incorporate hemp oil into the recipe.
Nice recipe! This a good for cold winter days. Thanks! Hug.
Thank you for this simple recipe. A bit of honey would be nice to add for sweetness!
I love your recipes! I will try this. So much better than what you buy in the store
Wowie! this looks so wonderful. I am definitely going to try it. You are the best!
I’ve made lip balm before, but this recipe looks even better. I look forward to making this one! Thanks for posting!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. Lip balm is always something I wanted to try but always put off. this recipe is so simple,
Thanks for this post…I’m definitely going to give it a try.
I wonder if I could add something to this recipe that would give a tint to my lips?
Thank you for the recipe…
great ideas!!:)
This lip balm is the best i have ever made it work awesome!!:)
I have used several of these individually on my lips, so I’m really excited to make this!
Thanks for this great recipe! I can’t wait to try it. Why the glass stirring rod? Thanks!
So excited to be following on Pinterest now!
Sounds like a good beginners formula. I am going to substitute candelilla wax at 50% and see how that works.
Thanks! It seems easy to create…looking forward to it!
I would probably replace the orange essential oil with peppermint or any other oil that is not photo sensitive to sun light!
This sounds fun and easy to do, hope to try it out soon!
Thank you Andrea!
I make these as presents and they are always well received. I’ll change the Essential Oils to vary the recipe.
When using orange essential oil in a lip balm, wouldn’t you worry about the photosensitivity of the citrus oils? Is there a chance that you could get a sunburn on your lips? Have you ever tried orange extract like when baking? Would the outcome be different? Thanks
This is similar to my lip balm recipe I used to make before I got turned on to coconut oil. Can’t wait to try it
I am totally excited about this new lip balm recipe; the children will enjoy making this. Thank you!
I can’t wait to make my own. Thank you for this awesome recipe!
Thanks for the recipe, great lip balm recipe !
Andrea, I tried making a lip balm this weekend (not yours, which is probably the problem) but after it had cooled down it was not easy to get out of the little container I was using because of the beeswax. I made sure I followed the recipe correctly, so it is too much beeswax? How much beeswax is necessary to make lip balm for any recipe? Thank you.
I like this recipe. I can’t wait to try it.
Thanks for the recipe. I can’t wait to make my own lip balm!
Question: how long can it last (shelf life)?
Love this recipe! I have a slightly different one but will try yours just to compare! Again, it is a great project to do with a child. Thank you!
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Love this recipe. I’m going to make them with my kids. I want them to grow up with a deep gratitude for Mother Nature and all she has to offer, so this recipe will be perfect.
this one looks sooo easy to make. I can’t wait to get started making them. I have friends and family that loves my bath salts and bath fizzies. so I can just add this to my collection.
I’m so excited to come across your blog — and especially excited to find your lip balm recipe. I am new to essential oils and have thought that this would be an easy — and useful — place to start. Thank you for sharing!
Hi,
I’ve been making that lip balm for years, and often offer it as a gift to my friends or costumers. It’s a really delightfull one.
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Andrea, I could have used this recipe last week. My lips were so chapped they hurt