Homemade Lip Balm
Kristin St. Clair shows how you can make your own lip balm at home.
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Homemade Lip Balm
Kristin St. Clair shows how you can make your own lip balm at home.
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The Martha Stewart Show, April 2010
Make your own all-natural red lip balm with this easy recipe from in-house crafter Kristin St. Clair.
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons grated beeswax
- 5 teaspoons carrier oil (such as castor, sunflower, or jojoba)
- 1 teaspoon vitamin E oil
- 1 teaspoon carmine (natural red) coloring oil
- 6 or 7 drops essential oil (such as vanilla)
Note: To make colorless lip balm, substitute carmine coloring oil with an additional teaspoon of carrier oil.
Tools and Materials
- Double boiler
- Mixing stick or spoon
- Lip balm tubes, pots, or tins
- Pouring tray with plastic scraper (optional)
- Decorative paper
- 2-inch-wide clear packing tape
Homemade Lip Balm How-To
1. Melt beeswax, carrier oil, vitamin E oil, and coloring oil together in a double boiler, stirring to combine. Add essential oil right before removing from boiler to pour.
2. Pour mixture into lip balm containers. Let cool for about an hour. If using a pouring tray, scrape away excess and smooth tops with plastic scraper.
3. To make labels, cut a scrap of decorative paper to the size of container. Place paper facedown on a piece of clear 2-inch-wide packing tape. Cut packing tape to width of paper strip, and trim so tape is about 1/2 inch longer than paper on both ends. Wrap tape with paper around tube or pot.
Resources
Lip balm ingredients available from tkbtrading.com. Lip balm tubes, pots, tins, and pouring trays available from sks-bottle.com. Essential oils and vitamin E oil available from Whole Body or other drug stores.
For more info on the many benefits of essential oils visit www.kthompson.vibrantscents.com
Unfortunately, this video does not play. The recipe needs to indicate how many lip balms it makes.
how many tubes does their recipe fill?
how many tubes does their recipe fill?
You can also use Zinc Oxide in lip balm for a sunscreen for the person who asked:
They have tons of sample sizes there that are cheap:
http://www.tkbtrading.com/item.php?item_id=409
You can add a bit of Titanium Dioxide to your lip balm for sunscreen properties. I get mine at TKB: http://www.tkbtrading.com/item.php?item_id=422
TKB Trading put a special lip balm kit together for any Martha Stewart viewers that are interested:
http://www.tkbtrading.com/item.php?item_id=1214
TKB Trading put a special lip balm kit together for any Martha Stewart viewers that are interested:
http://www.tkbtrading.com/item.php?item_id=1214
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love this idea but love her ring even more! doen anyone know where to find an amethyst geode ring like the one she was wearing on the show? thank you!
Can you add an ingredient that will give your lips sun protection/
Here's the link for the pour shield, scraper, plus a bunch of tubes.
http://www.sks-bottle.com/340c/fin77d.html
Here's the link for the pour shield, scraper, plus a bunch of tubes.
http://www.sks-bottle.com/340c/fin77d.html
Where do you find the pour sheild? On that site I only see The lip balm containers not the silicone holder used on the show.
I recently purchased containers at Jo-Anne Fabrics
If you want to buy just a few containers, at a lower price, from a Fair Trade warehouse, ck out this one: http://www.rusticescentuals.com/ They sell small pots and tubes and other fragrance oils, candle making stuff. You can get a dozen small lip balm pots here for 3.75!