To continue the theme of DIY natural lip care recipes, I’m sharing this recipe for homemade healing lip salve. I really like homemade lipstick and homemade tinted lip balm, but sometimes I just want something to help with dry lips after gardening or being outside in wind/snow but don’t want color, shine, or scent.
This recipe is also great for guys and for kids as it isn’t brightly colored or strongly scented. This recipe incorporates optional healing herbs that help heal and protect the lips, but you can leave these ingredients out to have an unscented and simply moisturizing version. Homemade healing lip balm/salve also lasts forever, since a little goes a really long way.
Lip Salve Recipe
The herbal ingredients are naturally moisturizing, antibacterial, and anti-fungal, and some people have success with using it to speed healing of cold sores. It doesn’t contain petroleum or chemicals like most commercial lip products so you can feel safe using it on yourself of your kids.
All ingredients and tins and lip chap containers to store it in can be found online. (Storing in a lip-chap container makes it portable and easy to apply.)
Lip Balm Ingredients
- 1 cup of olive or almond oil
- 1 teaspoon echinacea root (optional)
- 1 teaspoon comfrey leaf
- 1 teaspoon plantain leaf (herb-not banana!)
- 1 teaspoon calendula flowers
- 1 teaspoon yarrow flowers
- 1 teaspoon rosemary leaf
- 1/4 cup beeswax pastilles
- grapefruit seed extract or vitamin E oil
- peppermint essential oil
- 5-10 drops of peppermint essential oil (optional)
Lip Balm Instructions
- Infuse the herbs into the olive oil. There are two ways to do this. You can either combine the herbs and the olive oil in a jar with an airtight lid and leave 3-4 weeks, shaking daily OR heat the herbs and olive oil over low/low heat in a double boiler for 3 hours (low heat!) until the oil is very green. You can also omit this step completely, or just a drop of each of the essential oils instead.
- Strain the herbs out of the oil by pouring through a cheesecloth. Let all the oil drip out and then squeeze the herbs to get the remaining oil out.
- Discard the herbs.
- Heat 1/4 cup of the infused oil in a double boiler with the beeswax until melted and mixed. (save the extra oil for use on wounds/cuts or for another batch of lip salve).
- Pour into small tins, glass jars or lip chap tubes and use on dry or chapped lips.
Another easy DIY I love is my Mint Chocolate Lip Scrub.
Do your lips ever get chapped? Have you ever infused an oil? Let me know below!
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I keep looking at this recipe and really want to try it! But, even though I have lots of ingredients for making my own products, there are many in this recipe that I’d have to buy just for this, which would make it cost prohibitive. Let’s just say I can only add 2-3 of the 6 flower/herbs listed – which do you think would be the best choices? I live in the dry desert with lots of sun, but no issues with cold sores…just dryness. Thanks for your help! Can’t wait to try this! 🙂
A lot of Grapefruit Seed Extract has triclosan in it! Look into it. Probably not a good idea…..
I made your remineralizing toothpaste, but it seemed pretty dry. I added another tablespoon of coconut oil and some more essential oil ( peppermint). Did I do the right thing? It’s a very stiff paste now.
What a gift idea. I’m featuring it in my Homemade Gifts-in-a-Jar guest post over at Keeper of the Home! Hope it brings some new friends your way! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you! 🙂 Kelly
If I choose not to use the herbs at all, what amount of oil to beeswax should I use. May I just use the beeswax block I already have? How much?
Does the salve work better if you use all essential oils in place of infused herbs?
I have infused Plantain and Calendula flowers in olive oil in a mini crock pot.Strained it then added bees wax to make a VERY healing salve. I gave it to 2 separate people when they burned themselves. They didn’t blister.
I started buying buying Doterra oils.
If I used the essential oils in place of the infused herbs,
would it be even more healing???
Thank you,
Candie
I’m looking to make a lip balm that includes black walnut hull, known for helping cold sores, would this work in a healing lip balm or is there another recipe that would work better? I checked your herb profile for black walnut hull, which gave a great review of the herb but no recipes. Any suggestions?
Cheers!
You could add to this recipe without a problem…
Perfect! Approx. how much would you add in?
About how many lip balm tubes will this recipe fill?
About 24 I think…
Thanks!
Sounds great!
If somebody makes any products of your shared recipes, would you mind if
he/she sells them without telling you in advance? Thank you.