Making Tinted Lip Balm is Easy! Read on for 8 Simple Tips

Now, down to the fun stuff! Are you a DIY-person and love making beauty products for yourself or for your favorite person? If so, today you’ll learn to make lip balm and find out why it’s an essential for anyone – year-round – and why it should be in everyone’s pocket and/or purse (I keep mine everywhere).

We will turn the plain lip balm into all natural tinted lip balm by experimenting with different types of natural ingredients.

The balm that you will make, will effectively take care of your lips, both protecting them from dryness and flaking; as well as enhancing their color and skin tone.

1. What is A Lip Balm

Lip balm is a substance that you put onto your lips to moisturize them and prevent them from drying out and cracking.

Lib balms can come in solid or semi-solid forms. Most often they come in a lipstick-looking tube container.

2. Benefits of Lip Balm

Remember from our previous posts about lip care, that our lips do not contain oil glands. In addition skin of the lips is very delicate and thin. That makes our lips to dry out and chop quickly.

Lip balm has many benefits for your lips:

a) as I already mentioned, it moisturizes and protects your lips

b) it nourishes and regenerates your lips

c) it can prevent your lips from flaking, chopping and even getting cold sores

3. What A Natural Lip Balm Is Made Of?

So, I think we agree that we prefer our lip care products to be non-harmful and healthy. Such lip balms usually contain the following:

• Beeswax – as a healthy hardening ingredients

• Natural butters – shea, coconut, mango, cocoa and so on. There are many amazing butters with unique properties. You can read the full article about them HERE.

• Carrier oils – jojoba, coconut oil, grapeseed oil, sesame seed oil and others.

• Essential oils – this is an optional step, you would add 1 or 2 drops of your favorite essential oil to obtain nice smell and enjoy benefits of essential oil itself.

4. What Natural Ingredients Give Pigment to You Lip Balms

Let’s be honest: the color pigment in DIY products won’t be as rich as in the commercial ones. Simply because we are using natural ingredients. We won’t use any artificial colorings or color enhancers.

However, it is possible to have an obvious tint to your homemade tinted balms. And it will be noticeable once you apply them on your lips.

So, the most common natural coloring additives for tinted balms are:

• beet root powder – derived from regular beets.
• alkanet root powder – derived from a root of alkanet plant.
• cocoa powder – derived from cocoa tree.

Note: I saw some recipes that suggested using red clay. I tried it and to be honest, did not like that. Clay has very high absorbing and drying properties. When I tried using a lip balm with clay, it did feel drying. Clays are super for lip exfoliation, but not for a prolonged use when we are trying to keep our lips moisturized.

Making Different Colors and Shades with Natural Ingredients

PINK COLOR – add beet root powder

DEEP RED COLOR – add alkanet root powder and beet root powder in 1:1 proportion.

RED/PURPLE COLOR – alkanet root

BROWN RED COLOR – add alkanet root powder and cocoa powder in 2:1 proportion

5. Supplies You Need to Make A Lip Balm

You will need the following:

• Butter/s of your choice
• Wax Pallets
• Oil/s of your choice
• Natural coloring as above (if you are planning to make a tinted balm)
• Essential oil (optional)
• Balm tubes

Glass (or plastic) oil dropper (optional but highly recommended. You can reuse the dropper from an old bottle – just clean it thoroughly. You can also purchase droppers on Amazon.

6. Directions To Make Lip Balm

Ingredients:

• 1 part beeswax,
• 1 part hard butter
• 2 parts oil by volume (or 1:1:4 by weight).
• Few drops of essential oil/s of your choice
• Powder for desirable tint

Method:

1. Gather the ingredients and the tools
2. Melt the wax (either in microwave or using a double boiler method)
3. When was is half way melted, add hard butter and continue melting
4. Once hard ingredients turned to liquid, add the oil, mix well
5. Add in the essential oils
6. Mix in the colors
7. Pour the mixture into containers

7. Can A Lip Balm Damage Your Lips?

It sounds almost unbelievable, but yes, some lip balms can damage your lips.

You lips can become the opposite of what you want: even more dry and flaky.

It happens if you use cheap commercial products that contain harmful ingredients: menthol, phenol, paraffin, petrolatum and different dyes.

You can also be allergic to some of the ingredients. Although you would not get the most common instant allergic reaction such as rash, hives, itchiness and so on; you might get allergies after extensive use of such lip balms.

However, we’ve just learned that you can easily create a homemade lip balm, and even better – tinted lip balm.

8. How Long Can You Store a Homemade Lip Balm?

I have a great news: you can store this balm for a very long time – at least a year.

Yeah!!!!! (unlike many other homemade products like masks, toners and face washes)

And I am being conservative saying a year. I honestly have few lip balms that I made more than 3 years ago – nothing is wrong with them. I do not know if I would easily recommend anybody to store any product for that long, but hey – thought I would mention that.

So you can easily make make the whole bunch of them and keep them in every pocket (this is what I do). Give them as presents, give them to your kids, friends etc.

Enjoy.

Stay beautiful!!!!!