Homemade Lip Balm - to protect during the winter.

Diomedes Industries

Diomedes Industries

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Just made triple batch of lip balm as gifts for Christmas - thought I would share the recipe here.

Ingredients:
3 TSP of Beeswax (or .45 ounces)
4 TSP of Cocoa Butter (.40 ounces) you can use Cocoanut Butter as well
5 TSP of Sweet Almond Oil
2 TSP of Lanolin
1/2 TSP Honey
5 drops essential oils (I used Lemon Eucalyptus - but have used peppermint as well)

Melt Beeswax, Cocoa Butter, Almont Oil and Lanolin in a double boiler - stirring often. Once it is melted - add Honey and Essential oils. Keep Stirring while you add it to the container of your choice.

Between the Cocoa Butter, the Lanolin, and the Honey - you have protection and vitamins to repair chapped lips. I find this stuff is awesome just to have about the house.

Get the Lanolin, Essential Oils, Cocoa Butter, and empty tubes from this source (no I am not affiliated with them - just where I ordered from): http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/

Got the Bees Wax and Honey locally (5 pounds of bees wax!). You can make about a billion ounces of Burts Bee's like stuff for dirt cheap - with this batch I made about 5 ounces of lip balm. Considering a Burt's bee's contains about .15 ounces at 6 dollars a tube - I am about 70 dollars ahead just on this batch - and I barely scratched the surface of my store of stuff.

TF
 
Wife's current favorite recipe: (she's allergic to lanolin)
.6 oz almond oil
.6 oz sunflower oil
.3 oz coconut oil
.4 oz mango butter
.5 oz beeswax
.6 oz cocoa butter

she based it off of a basic recipe that called for:
40% liquid oil
25% solid oil (oil solid at room temp, such as "crisco", coconut oil, mango butter, shea buttter)
20% beeswax
15% brittle oil (cocoa butter or palm kernel oil)

personally, I don't mind the taste of tea tree oil and then I can also use the stuff for dried, cracked cuticles in the winter when my hands dry out.
 
I don't believe Burts Bees is the Bees knees. They're OK if you live in an area where your only options for hygiene products are at Walmart. But where I live (or just by going online) I can find better products often for less. But, good for you for making your own. That's always fun and I'm sure it's a great lip balm. Now, if you could post up a good recipe for shampoo or conditioner... Maybe the next survival challenge? :D
 
I honestly have been using Dr. Bronner's for everything in the shower for years. 1/2 diluted. I don't read the bottle. ;)

TF
 
I have used it. I still have some. I'm not crazy about their products. I feel the peppermint hemp soap is more of a detergent than a soap. It kind of burns my skin. It burns if I accidentally get some in my eyes, so I won't use it as a face wash. I can see why you dilute it. You say you use it for everything in the shower? I tried to use it as a shampoo once and it completely dried out my hair. I was not happy. I haven't really found any hygiene product that I've liked for years. It seems to change now and again. In some cases the products themselves have changed. I actually do like reading the bottle when I'm using that product in a bubble bath. I mean, what else am I going to read?
 
Good tip to mention the ingredients to anyone you gift to- I am seriously allergic to almond products...weird as I eat all other nuts but there it is. Homespun is often much better quality wise than store bought.

Bill
 
Lmalterna,

I thought about this last night - as my wife is allergic to certain nuts (My stepfather is ONLY allergic to Sunflower Seeds - but man is it bad!). I am making up a small label to list the ingredients and I will past it on the bottom.

No one's health is worth it. Thanks for the reminder!

TF
 
Allergies are sneaky- I once got almond paste in a chopped steak frozen food dinner! It was being used to boost the protein count of the soy/meat- at least that is my guess.

My kids have allergies to peanuts. That is one reason I like your idea of home made goods- you KNOW what is in it, no reading the fine print for a hidden ingredient. No questionable preservation and stabilization chemicals.

Bill
 
Talfuchre said:
I honestly have been using Dr. Bronner's for everything in the shower for years. 1/2 diluted. I don't read the bottle. ;)

TF
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I use the DR Bronner's bar soap for shower/shampoo -- I like it better than the liquid soaps.
 
Bill,

If it was not for Almonds - my family (which is gluten free, casein free, no artificial colors) would have a hard time baking. Almonds certainly boost your protein - it is why we bake with it.

1066,

Thanks for your posts lately - on other boards they have been great to read and supportive.

TF
 
I've been meaning to research what a gluten is. I never even heard of a casein. We should have more cool recipes on here.
 
thanks for the complement!

gluten is a type of protein - generally associated with wheat and barley.
casein is a milk protein
 
I had a science teacher in high school that had a container of Vaseline for his lips. He'd smear a thin coat on now and then in the winter. Cost a few bucks and said that it lasted him for years.
 
Vaseline does seal moisture in to prevent cracking. It is also a petroleum product and I try to keep thiose away from my mouth. At one time "they" told us asbestos was perfectly safe...

I like beeswax and natural oils for anything that might end up being ingested, even in small quantities. a few dollars can easily last a year.

Bill
 
I dont post on this forum very often.

However, I do lurk very frequently.

I like making things so i went ahead and made a trial run of this lip balm to see if it would be worthwhile to give it out for X-mas presents.

This stuff is AWESOME!!!!!!

Ive ordered up a bunch of lip balm tubes and will be giving this out to my buddies and family for x mas.

Thanks for posting this up!
 
Thanks for the tip Tal. Going to have to try that.

And just for info ; I bought 4 cans of Burts Bees hand salve and when I made it through 2 cans and opened the 3rd , I realized the last 2 went Rancid ! They where in storage about 2 years.
Lip balm may not do that , I'm not sure. I haven't had any issues with Carmex that was over 5 years old and such.
 
lmalterna said:
Vaseline does seal moisture in to prevent cracking. It is also a petroleum product and I try to keep those away from my mouth. At one time "they" told us asbestos was perfectly safe...

I like beeswax and natural oils for anything that might end up being ingested, even in small quantities. a few dollars can easily last a year.

Bill
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Although the higher level of refinement for pharmacy grade P. Jelly has been used for 100 years as a burn balm etc., the asbestos analogy is a good argument. :thumbup: Yes, it is a petroleum based product.
 
;) Call me paranoid and I'll come everytime. AT the same time I am still eating food with artificial flavorings, preservatives and stabilizers.... :eek:

Bill
 
lmalterna said:
;) Call me paranoid and I'll come every time. AT the same time I am still eating food with artificial flavorings, preservatives and stabilizers.... :eek:

Bill
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I know buddy, that flashed through also. There is a local river here that has residual mercury in it. The levels are going down and it's limited consumption. I still chow down a few times a year on the fresh Walleye. Wouldn't feed it to kids or pregnant women, but I figure that all the other residual carcinogens that we ingest can't really be stopped anyway. The world is far past that. On the other hand why knowingly add risk factors. I see both sides. But tend to use reasonable caution and not sweat the smaller stuff. I hear ya though. :thumbup:
 
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