If you’ve ever used an all natural beeswax lip balm like Burts Bees you know how amazing it can be on your lips, and how expensive it can be. Making your own is much cheaper and you control what goes in it!
This DIY beeswax chapstick recipe is easy to make and costs less than 50 cents a tube, with the tube or container, which can be reused!
You can even color your lip balms if you want the fancy tinted kind. Just remember to use natural food-derrived colors (Amazon) or actual foods like cinnamon, cocoa powder, etc.
Scent and flavor variations are fun too! You could replace the shea butter with some cocoa butter, add a little cocoa powder and orange oil (omit the peppermint) and you’d have a lovely chocolate orange lip balm. We made a few with grapefruit oil instead of the peppermint and the scent is so refreshing. We love it!
Supplies Needed for DIY Chapstick
If you don’t have these on hand already, buying them all at once can be pricey. Remember you will use very small amounts of each of these and you’ll have tons leftover to make more goodies later!
- Beeswax (Amazon)
– Honestly? I just cut a piece off a homemade candle my mom made, melted it down and pulled out the wick, but if you don’t have some on hand, these beeswax beads melt quickly and are easy to measure out. - Coconut Oil (Amazon) – You can use any coconut oil, but let me tell you, this stuff is AMAZING and smells and feels so much better than the stuff I get at the grocery store for cooking with. So worth it.
- Shea Butter (Amazon) – This stuff is hard and funny looking and smells a little strange (I expected it to smell sweet and edible!) but mixed with the other ingredients it’s amazing on your skin!
- Vitamin E Oil (Amazon) – I love that this particular brand comes in a bottle with a dropper. E-Oil is thick and goupy and hard to measure. This makes it easy.
- Essential Oils (Amazon) – There are a ton you can find on Amazon or purchase from your preferred brand.
- Lip Balm Tubes (Amazon) – You can put your balm in anything, but these little tubes make it super easy to dispense and if you’re making it to give as gifts, people appreciate something easy and mess free!
– Honestly? I just cut a piece off a homemade candle my mom made, melted it down and pulled out the wick, but if you don’t have some on hand, these beeswax beads melt quickly and are easy to measure out.
– You can use any coconut oil, but let me tell you, this stuff is AMAZING and smells and feels so much better than the stuff I get at the grocery store for cooking with. So worth it.
– This stuff is hard and funny looking and smells a little strange (I expected it to smell sweet and edible!) but mixed with the other ingredients it’s amazing on your skin!
– I love that this particular brand comes in a bottle with a dropper. E-Oil is thick and goupy and hard to measure. This makes it easy.
– You can put your balm in anything, but these little tubes make it super easy to dispense and if you’re making it to give as gifts, people appreciate something easy and mess free!Jendi & her girls used the recipe above to make lip balm for the very first time. They recorded it to share with you:
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Have you ever made your own lip balm? We’d love to hear your favorite ingredients!
I am curious how many tubes this recipe makes.
15-18 tubes. :)
Does the “T” represent teaspoon or tablespoon?
T = Tablespoon :)
t = teaspoon
Tsp= teaspoon
Tbs= tablespoon
Thank you so much for the recipe, my daughter and I made a batch yesterday. I didn’t have rosemary oil, added Melaluca oil instead ( i know you said not to substitute but it is anti baterial properties too) and orange oil. Came out amazing the whole family loves it
Jeanette, I’m so glad you said what you did. I have a very serious allergy to Rosemary so I was looking for a substitute. It’s hard to find good EO recipes without Rosemary in them. These look yummy and I can’t wait to try them.
I love your recipe as it is really creamy and moist! People who I have given it to love it as well. I used lavender and will try a new batch with citrus, but warn people not to use it if out in the sun.
Just made a batch of the lip balm. So excited. I used orange instead of mint.
Hi! I was just curios how long these last? I want to give them out in Christmas baskets and want to know if they will more than a month or two!:) thanks
Thanks maybe you should try more fruity scents vs. Florol
I don’t see the recipe posted showing the amounts of the ingredients; all I see are the Supplies Needed for DIY Chapstick. Is the recipe listed somewhere else?
I was wondering the same. Glad to know Im not the only one.
Can you add the recipe to this article please? Thanks!