Easy homemade lip balm| COCOÉCO blog

Your smile’s going to love this recipe!

Tempted to pamper your lips while adding a touch of colour and flavour? We’ve got just what you need! A tinted lip balm recipe with a subtle crimson colour and a delicious taste. You’ll see, Very Berry is also very irresistible!

Your lips have particularly thin and delicate skin, so you need to give them extra care. A good lip balm nourishes them with the right oils and butters and protects them with beeswax or vegetable wax… and why not pretty them up at the same time with a hint of colour? This homemade tinted lip balm both provides care and brings out your lovely smile!

As sweet, red, and luscious as a summer fruit, Very Berry is your lips’ new best friend!

How to make tinted lip balm

Beeswax tinted lip balm ingredients

5.6 g (18.6%) white beeswax beads
5.7 g (18.9%) evening primrose oil
4.2 g (14%) hazelnut oil
0.6 g (2%) castor oil
11.6 g (38.5%) mango butter
0.9 g (3%) bordeaux mica
0.9 g (3%) light red oxide
0.3 g (1%) berry flavour
0.3 g (1%) vitamin E

Vegan tinted lip balm ingredients

5.6 g (18.6%) candelilla wax
5.7 g (18.9%) evening primrose oil
4.2 g (14%) hazelnut oil
0.6 g (2%) castor oil
11.6 g (38.5%) mango butter
0.9 g (3%) bordeaux mica
0.9 g (3%) light red oxide
0.3 g (1%) berry flavour
0.3 g (1%) vitamin E

Tools

Small stainless steel bowl
Components to make a double boiler
Small silicone spatula
Scale, accurate to 0.1 g
A few pipettes
Pair of scissors
A few ramekins
Pigment blender
Six round lip balm tubes
Fridge

Good to know!

You can use yellow or white beeswax.
We advise against replacing the candelilla wax with another vegetable wax.
If you’d like to use a different oil or butter than those included in this lip balm recipe, make sure you replace that ingredient with a similar product. For example, a hard butter must be replaced by another hard butter or a dry oil by another dry oil.
We chose evening primrose oil because it revitalizes skin and improves its elasticity.
Rich in antioxidants, mango butter protects and soothes your lips.
Castor oil is restorative and softening.
Hazelnut oil has restorative and protective properties, ideal qualities in a homemade lip balm.
The waxes are protective and harden the lip balm.
Vitamin E is not only an antioxidant that helps prevent the oils from going rancid, it’s also revitalizing.

Steps to follow

Prepare and disinfect your equipment and workspace.
Weigh the wax, the mango butter, and the three oils in the small bowl. Melt on the double boiler.
Weigh the flavour and vitamin E in a ramekin.
Cut the tip off of a pipette using a pair of scissors.
Weigh the powders in the lid of the pigment blender. Holding the pigment blender with the blades pointed upwards, mix for about 20 seconds while shaking the blender. Repeat this process four times, scraping the powders off the blades and the walls of the lid between each mixing. This will help yield an even shade.
When the wax, butter, and oil mixture has melted, add the flavour and vitamin E. Add the colourants and mix well.
Use the previously cut pipette to fill the empty tubes. If the mixture is too solid, put it back on the double boiler for a few moments. Be careful not to overheat it or the vitamin E and flavour will lose their effects.
Place the filled tubes in the fridge for about ten minutes. Once you take them out, we recommend waiting a further 30 minutes before using your beautiful homemade lip balms!