Natural Lip Balm Recipes

There are a lot of people looking for lip balm recipes. I can see why being that most commercial lip balms contain petroleum products, which actually dehydrate your lips.

Before I give you a quick and easy lip balm recipe, I want to FIRST tell you how I make lip balm at home.

Honestly, I make lip balm the EXACT same way as I make my herbal salve, except I double the amount of beeswax. This makes it simple!

I make it this way so I can get the medicine from herbs in my lip balm. This makes for a far more healing, effective home made lip balm than the recipe that follows.

How do you make my herbal healing salve? I teach you that in the Herbal Remedy Kit.

For those folks who learned how to make salve in the Herbal Remedy Kit, try adding some other types of essential oil in the place of the essential oil you used in the kit, such as orange or lemon.

Natural Lip Balm Recipe

• 1 ounce beeswax
• 1 ounce cocoa butter or deodorized cocoa butter
• 1 ounce sweet almond oil
• essential oil (approximately 10 drops or to suit)
• 1 ounce shea butter or mango butter
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Melt beeswax, cocoa butter and sweet almond oil in microwave on Defrost Power, using intervals of one minute to stir. You can also use a saucepan on really low heat (using a double boiler is even better).

When completely melted, add essential oil of your choice (try peppermint, spearmint or any citrus flavors) and shea butter or mango butter. Combine thoroughly.

Carefully pour into tubes, jars or tins.

Allow to cool completely.

Makes 12-14 tubes.

Written by John Gallagher

John Gallagher, L.Ac., CCH is co-founder and co-CEO of LearningHerbs. He created and designed HerbMentor and has produced all of the products and learning experiences that we offer. Besides being a dad to two grown kids, John is a five-element acupuncturist and a musician. He also co-founded a wilderness skills school and a theater company.