Natural Tinted (or un-tinted) Lip Balm is a great alternative for those (like me) who don’t regularly wear lipstick. If you are a lipstick girl, check out this recipe for homemade lipstick.
Tinted Lip Balm is a smoother and and glossier recipe that lipstick, and more like a traditional lip gloss. It is made with completely natural ingredients and a little goes a really long way. I colored the one above with a tiny drop of natural red food coloring and added lemon and vanilla for scent, though you could leave it unscented or add an essential oil you like.
I re-used an old tin for this recipe, but you can also find cute 1/2 ounce and 1 ounce tins online that I use when I make these for gifts. By adding slightly more beeswax, this also makes a great lip balm in a chap stick container as well. My daughter also loves this lip balm because it is a natural recipe so I’ll let her use a tiny amount and she feels special because she is wearing “make-up.”
Tinted Lip Balm Recipe
This recipe also has many of the same ingredients as Homemade Lotion Bars, Homemade Lotion, DIY Deodorant and more, so if you keep these ingredients on hand, you can make endless variations of natural beauty products.
Lip Balm Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon beeswax
- 1 tablespoon shea butter
- 1/2 teaspoon red or rose mica powder
- optional: 2-4 drops of peppermint essential oil
Lip Balm Instructions
- Melt the coconut oil, beeswax and shea/cocoa butter in a glass jar sitting in a small pot of simmering water (not boiling) and stir gently until melted (be careful not to get any water into the mixture).
- When melted, carefully stir in any colors or essential oils, if using. My favorite is lemon and vanilla for scent and a little red coloring or cocoa powder for color. A couple drops of peppermint will make it similar to Burt’s Bees Lip Chap.
- Once colors/scents are mixed in, use a dropper to transfer to tins or lip chap containers. Let cool.
- Apply the versions in the tins with your finger or use the version in plastic container as you would regular lip chap.
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My daughter and I made this lip gloss and gave it away during covid to our community. We also saved some for ourselves and I really like how smooth it is and how the colors pop! Really easy to make.
Just made this. Even put extra mica powder. It’s beautiful but it hardly has any shimmer or color to it on your lips. Not even a hint. Any suggestions?
It does seem that the Mica powder does not really make a color on the lips. I think you just need to look online for other types of materials that blend better with oils to make a real color. Mine also did not make color on the lips just a bit sparkly.
Could you please tell me How many lip balms does the above give measurement make??
Do I add the mica powder at the time I would have added the food coloring? Thank you!!! Going to try this at my daughters 13th bday party.
Do you have a recommendation for replacing the coconut oil in this?
I looked on Amazon for natural colored mica. But, most mica appeared to have been dyed lurid bright colors. In other words, this is no better than using dyes. And none of the mica claimed to have been undyed or unbleached.