Homemade Peppermint Lip Balm Recipe
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How to make an easy peppermint lip balm recipe. This moisturizes your lips and helps protect them from future damage from cold air.
I love the cool tingle of peppermint lip balm, especially in the winter. Peppermint essential oil is said to help heal chapped lips, so this is really a great recipe for winter.
My kids constantly lip their lips, no matter how many times I tell them that this is what causes the red, chapped lips!
This peppermint lip balm recipe helps create a barrier while it heals and protects. I usually make a double batch of this so we can stash them all over the house for the kids.
Do your kids lose lip balm as often as mine do? I have no idea where it goes. It's there one day, gone the next, and back again the next day.
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Peppermint Lip Balm Recipe
Beeswax
Beeswax serves two purposes in a lip balm. First, it hardens the recipe. Even with the butters and solid coconut oil, this would be a very soft lip balm.
Secondly, it helps form a protective barrier on top of your lips. This prevents moisturize loss, and it traps the other ingredients next to your skin so they can work their magic.
Organic Coconut Oil
Coconut oil is amazing for your lips. In a pinch, I'll use plain coconut oil on my lips when they are really dry.
Coconut oil is very moisturizing. It's high in fats that offer deep moisturization for your lips.
Butters
I prefer to use shea butter, but you can also use cocoa butter. Shea butter is softer than cooca butter. If you use cocoa butter, use less beeswax.
Both butters are high in fats to moisturize your lips. They also have vitamins to nourish your lips.
Cocoa butter has a slight cocoa odor unless you get deodorized cocoa butter.
Sweet Almond Oil
Sweet almond oil is a great all purpose carrier oil. It's high in vitamins A and E to nourish your lips and fatty acids to moisturize.
It's a lighter oil, so it soaks in quickly. For very chapped lips, I really like chia seed oil. It's heavier, but it feels amazing on your lips.
Peppermint Essential Oil
I used peppermint essential oil because it smells and tastes great. It's also said to promote healing for dry or chapped lips.
The natural menthol in peppermint is soothing. If your lips tingle or hurt from being dry, peppermint essential oil can feel really good on your lips.
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Peppermint Lip Balm Recipe Ingredients
- 1.5 tablespoons beeswax
- 1 tablespoon organic coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon shea butter
or cocoa butter
(if you use cocoa butter, you'll want to decrease the beeswax to 1 tablespoon)
- 2 tablespoons sweet almond oil
- 20 drops peppermint essential oil
- Lip balm tubes
or lip balm pots
- Double boiler or Pyrex measuring cup
in a pot of water
Directions
Step #1
Step #2
Melt the beeswax, coconut oil, shea butter, and sweet almond oil over medium to low heat in the double boiler until melted.
Step #3
Remove from heat and stir well.
Step #4
Add peppermint essential oil and stir well.
Step #5
Pour in to lip balm tubes or lip balm pots. Let cool for 24 hours before capping.
This peppermint lip balm recipe will make 10-12 lip balm tubes or about 5 one inch lip balm pots worth of product.
I hope you enjoy my homemade peppermint lip balm recipe! Let me know if you try it.
Yield: 12
Estimated cost: $5
Peppermint Lip Balm Recipe
prep time: 15 Mperform time: 1 hourtotal time: 1 H & 15 M
How to make a soothing peppermint lip balm recipe
materials:
- 1.5 tablespoons beeswax
- 1 tablespoon organic coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon shea butter or cocoa butter (if you use cocoa butter, you'll want to decrease the beeswax to 1 tablespoon)
- 2 tablespoons sweet almond oil
- 20 drops peppermint essential oil
tools:
- Lip balm tubes or lip balm pots
- Double boiler or Pyrex measuring cup in a pot of water
steps:
- If you don't have a double boiler, you can easily make one by placing a Pyrex measuring cup in a sauce pan half full of water. You need to lift up the measuring cup so it's not sitting on the heat source. I use a canning jar ring.
- Melt the beeswax, coconut oil, shea butter, and sweet almond oil over medium to low heat in the double boiler until melted.
- Remove from heat and stir well.
- Add peppermint essential oil and stir well.
- Pour in to lip balm tubes or lip balm pots. Let cool for 24 hours before capping.
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