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Easy Homemade Lip Balm and Lip Gloss Recipes
Posted by Jane Lake
Here's an assortment of easy recipes to make your own lip balm or lip gloss.
We also have lip balm recipes using a vaseline or petroleum jelly base and Beeswax Lip Balm Recipes.
Ideally, lip balm should protect your lips from chapping due to dry air or cold weather conditions. Some recipes include a hint of color while others add an attractive glossy sheen to your lips.
General Directions:
Melt recipes using beeswax or petroleum jelly as the base ingredients in a pyrex jug in the microwave or in a double boiler. Don't overheat: watch carefully, using small increments of microwave time, and heat only until just melted. Use individual recipe directions for instructions on heating paraffin wax.
Make sure the containers used for preparation and storage are clean and sterile. You can reuse old lip gloss pots or tubes, but thoroughly clean out the old product, then wash with soap and water, sterilize with rubbing alcohol, rinse with clean water and dry the container before reuse.
Use only cosmetic grade Beeswax
Methods of Melting Lip Balm
- Microwave: If melting the base ingredients in the microwave, use short increments of time and watch carefully, removing as soon as the ingredients have just melted.
- Over Hot Water: Some recipes recommend melting the base ingredients in a ziploc water placed in a pot of hot tap water. Once melting is complete, unzip the bag, add flavorings, rezip, then knead lightly to mix all the ingredients together. Snip off a small corner of the bag and pour lip balm into containers.
- Double Boiler: If using a double boiler to melt lip balm, use low heat and remove as soon as melting has occurred.
Shortening Lip Balm
Melt shortening in the microwave, or over hot water, then add sweetened or unsweetened Kool-Aid drink mix using enough drink mix to color the lip balm and add flavor. Some flavors to try: strawberry, raspberry, watermelon or blueberry.
Chocolate Lip Gloss
Melt equal parts shortening and petroleum jelly in the microwave, or over hot water, then stir in cocoa powder to taste.
Candy Melt Lip Gloss
Add 1/4 teaspoon of grated paraffin wax, 1 teaspoon Coconut Oil
Cranberry Lip Gloss
Microwave one tablespoon Sweet Almond Oil
Lipstick Lip Gloss
Grate one teaspoon of beeswax and half a teaspoon of red lipstick into a pyrex measuring jug. Add half a teaspoon of petroleum jelly. If desired, add 4-6 drops of peppermint essential oil and 2 drops from a Vitamin E capsule. Pour into pots and let set.
i tried the lipgloss now my lips will forvever pretty!
I think eye shadow is really cheap for lip gloss. i would use kool aid. because it doesn't stain your lips.
thnx im gonna use this lip gloss 4ever
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We did the general [instructions] for an experiment in science class *6th grade*. It was sooo fun! You all should try it but it's kinda messy and plus it takes a little bit of supplies! =)!
K I have no idea which lip gloss to make! Any favs that would be great for science fair??? Also they should be easy cause I suck at science! Lol
Petroleum is the WORST ingredient to use!! It offers only superficial relief and with prolonged use will cause more lip chapping - so you need to use more of it so don't is my advice.
Use Olive oil & melted beeswax and flavour slightly with cocoa powder
this seems like a good idea
instead of doing all that, i use vaseline (petroleum jelly) and mix in my favorite eye shadows. use a plastic spoon to scoop out the petroleum jelly and use the back handle to scrape out some pigments from the eyeshadow. have fun mixing in a variety of different shadows to come out with a nice color. i use this trick all the time instead of buying lip gloss. you can get some nice eye shadow palettes from a local drug store that are not pricey at all. scrape it all into an empty contact lens case once its all mixed.
btw i learned this from a michelle phan video. her idea not mine.
i really enjoy theese crafts, i do them with my children. there awesome..


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