Natural Lip Gloss Recipe
Okay, one more all-natural pampering skincare recipe before we get to a nice little giveaway. 
One product we all use is lip gloss–just the basic Chapstick kind. When I started looking for all-natural alternatives to my old standbys, I found that my favorites such as Badger Balm were only made of three or four ingredients.
“I can do this myself!” I thought, and I went off in search of a recipe. Well, it took a little trial and error to get the recipe right: my first batch was as hard as beeswax candles and had to be melted down and diluted with more oil, but after a few tries I got a decent lip gloss. Here is my favorite recipe for a basic lip gloss. The best part is you can make it any flavor you like and it will still cost the same or less than any storebought product of the highest quality. I hope you like it!
Natural Lip Gloss Recipe
Ingredients:
- 2 T unbleached beeswax pellets
- 12-16 teaspoons carrier oil (sunflower, castor, jojoba, or olive—e.g. 8 t jojoba and 4 t olive). Use more oil for a softer lip balm.
- 16 drops essential oil (e.g. 8 lime/8 berry, 10 tangerine/6 grapefruit, 16 peppermint, or 12 orange/4 vanilla)
- 1 teaspoon honey, for flavor (optional)
- 1% grapefruit seed extract, for preservative (several drops)
- 10 small Chapstick tubes or 4-5 small lip gloss jars. Softer lip gloss works better in the jars, firmer works better in the tubes.
Instructions:
Melt the beeswax and carrier oil together in a double boiler, stirring to combine. Remove from heat; add honey and essential oil. To make tinted gloss, stir in a quarter tube of natural lipstick. Pour the mixture into lip balm twist-up or screw-lid containers and let cool before capping.
My estimate is that this recipe costs $2.50 per tube to make if packaged in 50-cent lip gloss tube containers, which you can buy online from cosmetic container suppliers. If you are replacing your old lip glosses with natural products and still have some tubes or jars around, try emptying the containers and washing them to re-use rather than buying tubes new. The tubes you buy online are exactly the same as a basic Chapstick tube. Either way, once you pay for 10 tubes once, you can re-use them over and over.
Do you have a favorite skincare recipe I haven’t mentioned yet? Please share it in comments! I’m in the process of testing homemade French clay masks, acne treatments, and hair products, so I’ll be back at some point with more recipes but I love hearing other people’s favorites.
