Momma Maven: Lip Balm Recipes as seen on "Studio 5"

Easy Lip Balm:

Ingredients: 3 parts grated unbleached or bleached beeswax; 5 parts carrier oil ( see the list below or you can even use regular vegetable); essential oil; 1 part honey, for flavor and mild preservative.

1. Melt the beeswax and carrier oil together in the top of a double boiler, stirring to combine. Remove from heat; add honey and essential oil, the amount varies put in to your liking. Mix thoroughly so the honey does not clump.

2. If you'd like to add a little color, stir in a dab of lipstick, it will cool lighter than it looks when melted. Pour the mixture into containers; let sit 20 minutes before covering or moving. For glossier lip balm, use less wax or more carrier oil. To avoid the formation of a hole in the tube’s center, first fill it just past shaft; let cool, and then fill to rim. Let cool for 20 minutes before moving the containers or adding lids.

Complex Lip Balm Recipe:

20% Beeswax

25% Solid Oil (Solid, at room temperature, has almost the same consistency of room temperature butter, maybe a little thicker. Like Shea Butter or Coconut Oil.

15% Brittle Oil (Just like it sounds, is firm and solid at room temperature. The consistency is just like a very hard clod of dried mud. Like Cocoa Butter.)

40% Liquid Oil (The oils I list below are great but even plain old vegetable oil will work just fine.)

Vitamin E oil: (optional, but acts as a natural preservative.)

* tips:

If you don't want to use any honey then the ratio is 1 part beeswax to 2 parts oil for the easy recipe.
To make a small trial batch make the easy recipe using tablespoons, it'll make about 1/2 ounce.
a pixie stix is also a great way to add color, flavor, and scent to your lip balms, it’s great for kids and adults alike.
Anything you add to this should be edible and oil based, if you want to use food coloring to tint it make SURE that it is oil based.
I haven't tried the comple recipe because I like to keep things simple and I like the easy recipe a lot anyway but I got the recipe from pretendingsanity.com and she loves this recipe and even sells the lip balm.

*The easy recipe was converted from Martha Stewart's web site.

Oils for each skin type;