In this short section, I’ve included a few recipes to get you started on lip basics with polishes or buffs to remove dead skin cells and moisturize the skin underneath, followed by a variety of wonderful lip balms.
The lip polishes and buffs are super simple, highly effective, and you can eat them. Really. Skin food. To use any lip polish, simply lick your lips and rub a bit of lip buff on them. Then rub lips together, lick sugar off, and follow with lip balm. The key to perfection with crafting these is to avoid using too much oil or they will separate, but if you have too little oil, the blend will be hard and not creamy. We’re aiming for a perfect creamy and easily applicable blend for the buffs and polishes.
The lip balms are recipes for perfectly kissable lips! The Chocolate Mint Lip Balm on page 100 is a super simple lip balm recipe that uses just five ingredients. It’s effective for soft, kissable lips and a wonderful daily protector from dry, chapped lips. Prompts for these recipes add a pretty little twist to the basic formula that you’ll enjoy!
Chocolate Lip Buff
Chocolate is super nourishing for the skin and packed with antioxidants, which makes this lip buff a great addition to your lip care routine.
0.4 ounce cocoa butter
1⅕ ounces jojoba oil
4 grams castor sugar*
⅓ ounce cocoa powder (less or more depending upon how chocolatey you like it)
Makes 5½ ounces.
Weigh out cocoa butter and jojoba oil in heatproof container, and melt over double boiler. Remove from heat, add in powdered ingredients, and mix well. Pour into container, cap, and label.
To use, lick lips, rub in a bit of polish with your finger, rub your lips together, lick off, follow with lip balm.
cocoa powder, jojoba oil, cocoa butter, castor sugar
To make your own castor sugar, take regular sugar and put in blender until super fine but not yet powdered sugar, or purchase castor sugar from the store.
Vanilla Lip Buff
Simple, sweet, and effective, vanilla makes this recipe smell and taste like cake frosting.
1½ ounces jojoba oil
4 ounces castor sugar
1 pinch ground vanilla
Makes 5½ ounces.
Weigh out jojoba oil, add in powdered ingredients, and mix well. Pour into container, cap, and label.
To use, lick lips, rub in a bit of polish with your finger, rub your lips together, lick off, and follow with lip balm.
jojoba oil, vanilla bean powder, castor sugar
Learn how to make your own castor sugar at home on page 98. But feel free to use store-bought if you’d like.
This is my personal favorite lip balm of all time. It also makes your lips smell very fresh!
7 grams beeswax
20 grams sunflower oil
12 grams cocoa butter
1 tiny pinch organic stevia, if you want a touch of sweet
7 drops peppermint essential oil
This recipe creates enough to fill 7 lip balm tubes.
Weigh all ingredients, except peppermint, in a heatproof glass measuring cup.
Place your cooking pan on the burner and fill with enough water to be equal with the materials in your glass heatproof cup.
Turn burner to medium heat, place heatproof cup into water bath, stir ingredients until melted, then remove from heat and wipe water off bottom of glass cup. Add peppermint if desired, and mix.
Pour into lip balm tubes. The stevia will have settled in the bottom of your heatproof cup, so simply stop pouring into lip balm tubes once you notice the liquid gets grainy and toss what’s left. Your lip balm will still be sweet, don’t worry!
Let cool until solidified. Cap the tubes and label your balm. Use for yourself or make gifts!
cocoa butter, beeswax pastilles, sunflower oil
LIP BALM PROMPTS
Check out these substitutions!
Jasmine Twist
Substitute the peppermint for 3 drops jasmine.
Orange Cream
Substitute the peppermint essential oil for orange essential oil.
Now prompt yourself to come up with something that goes well with vanilla or cocoa for a delightful lip balm recipe all your own!
This sweet and basic coconut lip balm is an easy recipe to add different essential oils to create a wide variety of flavored lip balms.
12 grams beeswax
12 grams organic shea butter
25 grams coconut oil
1 pinch stevia, if you want it sweet
This recipe will fill about 12 lip balm tubes.
Weigh all ingredients in a heatproof glass measuring cup.
Place your cooking pan on the burner and fill with enough water to be equal with the materials in your glass heatproof cup.
Turn burner to medium heat, place heatproof cup into water bath, and stir ingredients until melted. Remove from heat, wipe water off bottom of glass cup, and mix.
Pour into lip balm tubes. The stevia will have settled in the bottom of your heatproof cup, so simply stop pouring into lip balm tubes once you see that it is grainy and toss the rest. Your lip balm will still be sweet, don’t worry!
Let cool until solidified. Cap the tubes and label your balm. Use for yourself or give as gifts!
LIP BALM PROMPT
Try this tropical twist!
Virgin Coconut and Lime
Simply add about 6 drops of lime essential oil for a tropical twist.
This special recipe is really packed with lip nourishing oils, it is very soothing and healing.
5 grams coconut oil
12 grams mango butter
5 grams almond oil
14 grams jojoba oil
⅛ teaspoon sea buckthorn berry oil (too much will dye your skin)
12 grams beeswax
3 drops lavender essential oil
3 drops sandalwood essential oil
This recipe will fill about 12 lip balm tubes.
Weigh all ingredients in a heatproof glass measuring cup.
Place your cooking pan on the burner and fill with enough water to be equal with the materials in your glass heatproof cup.
Turn burner to medium heat, place heatproof cup into water bath, and stir ingredients until melted. Remove from heat, wipe water off bottom of glass cup, and mix.
Pour into lip balm tubes.
Let cool until solidified. Cap the tubes and label your balm. Use for yourself or give as gifts!
Castor oil creates a glossy look on lips, while the cinnamon draws and stimulates the blood flow, enhancing soft, warm, plump, beautiful lips.
18 grams castor oil
12 grams mango butter
12 grams beeswax
1 pinch super finely powdered dragon’s blood resin, if desired
1 tiny pinch stevia, if you want it sweet
6 drops cinnamon bark essential oil
This recipe will fill about 12 lip balm tubes.
Weigh all ingredients, except cinnamon, in a heatproof glass measuring cup.
Place your cooking pan on the burner and fill with enough water to be equal with the materials in your glass heatproof cup.
Turn burner to medium heat, place heatproof cup into water bath, and stir ingredients until melted. Remove from heat, wipe water off bottom of glass cup, add cinnamon, and mix.
Pour into lip balm tubes. The stevia will have settled in the bottom of your heatproof cup, so simply stop pouring into lip balm tubes once the liquid gets grainy and toss what remains. Your lip balm will still be sweet, don’t worry!
Let cool until solidified. Cap the tubes and label your balm. Use for yourself or gift to someone you love!
