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You are here: Home / Lifestyle / DIY Homemade Honey Lavender Lip Balm

December 1, 2015

DIY Homemade Honey Lavender Lip Balm

Ever tried making your own homemade lip balm? Once you have the ingredients and supplies, it’s not all that hard. And it will last forever – even if you go through lip balm like crazy like I do! This DIY Honey Lavender Lip Balm is delicious and nourishing for lips all year long.

Homemade Honey Lavender Lip Balm

I’m really excited to share this easy homemade Honey Lavender lip balm and hand salve recipe! I used beeswax, coconut oil and essential oils to create an inexpensive and delicious natural moisturizer. Any extra I had from the balms I poured into mason jars to make little pots of hand salve! I am obsessed with lip balm and always have dry hands in the winter, so this two-in-one recipe kills two birds with one stone. Now I have balms to stash in every nook and cranny – purse, car, bathroom, kitchen, etc. – plus extras to give as gifts.

Here’s how I made them!

Homemade Honey Lavender Lip Balm and Salve Recipe

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Ingredients

  • 10 empty lip balm tubes
  • 4 ounces beeswax
  • 6 four-ounce mason jars (or tin containers like these)
  • 1 tbsp lavender and 1 tsp vanilla essential oil (or your favorite combination of any flavors!)
  • 1 14-ounce jar coconut oil
  • Washi tape, chalkboard labels and pen, string for decoration

Directions

  1. Heat your coconut oil in the microwave just enough to be able to pour it from the jar into a pot. Allow it to melt.
  2. Add 4 one-ounce bars of beeswax and stir until melted. Be careful – this is HOT HOT HOT!! Mine melted at about 260 degrees.
  3. Allow to cool a bit – down by 100 degrees or so – but not enough that it starts to cloud and harden.
  4. Pour the still hot mixture into a glass container that is designed for high heat (like Pyrex). You can pour right from your pot into jars if you wish, but for the tubes you’ll want a more fine-tuned spout.
  5. Add 1 tablespoon of lavender essential oil and 1 teaspoon of vanilla essential oil and stir. Use more or less to your liking!
  6. Carefully pour mixture into lip balm tubes and salve containers. Ours filled about 10 balms and 6 four-ounce jars.
  7. Allow to cool and decorate away!

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Comments

  1. Matt says

    December 1, 2015 at 9:12 am

    I’m totally gonna make a hop one somehow

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  2. Ariana Mullins says

    December 1, 2015 at 9:16 am

    What a great tutorial! It’s awesome that we can find things like chapstick tubes so easily online now– I will have to order some and give this a shot. Thank you!

    Reply
  3. Kori says

    December 1, 2015 at 9:17 am

    What an awesome idea and project!

    Reply
  4. Laura says

    December 1, 2015 at 9:20 am

    What an awesome idea! Thank you for the tutorial!

    Reply
  5. Renee Kohley says

    December 1, 2015 at 9:28 am

    Such a great gifting idea and so simple! I love the little patterns on the tubes! So fun! My girls would love that!

    Reply
  6. Sarah says

    December 1, 2015 at 9:31 am

    Cool tutorial! I love DIY gifts for the holidays. Is there actually honey in this recipe as the title states?

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    • KathEats says

      December 1, 2015 at 9:50 am

      Nope, just the essence from the beeswax

      Reply
  7. linda spiker says

    December 1, 2015 at 9:45 am

    Love it! Pinning and sharing!

    Reply
  8. Brittany says

    December 1, 2015 at 9:48 am

    Hey Kath and readers, just an FYI, but beeswax is EXTREMELY flammable. You should never, ever heat it directly in a pot on the stove. Always use a double boiler method.

    Reply
    • KathEats says

      December 1, 2015 at 9:50 am

      Didn’t know that, but good FYI

      Reply
      • Irene says

        December 2, 2015 at 3:25 pm

        Hi! That is a very important detail and I would really think that it should be incorporated somewhere in the post – not everyone will read the comments. Better safe than sorry!

        Reply
  9. Kelli says

    December 1, 2015 at 9:49 am

    Is there any honey in the lip balm, or just beeswax?

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    • KathEats says

      December 1, 2015 at 9:49 am

      Just wax!

      Reply
      • KathEats says

        December 1, 2015 at 9:50 am

        Guess the title is a little misleading, but it reminds me of honey so that’s why I chose it as the “flavor”

        Reply
  10. Abbey says

    December 1, 2015 at 11:05 am

    Hi Kath! I am flying into Charlottesville for an interview today. As a long time reader, can’t wait to check out the town!

    Reply
    • KathEats says

      December 1, 2015 at 12:57 pm

      Welcome!! Sorry it’s so gross out. How long are you here?

      Reply
      • Abbey says

        December 1, 2015 at 3:15 pm

        Thanks! No worries — I’m from Wisconsin, I will take rain over snow! Heading out tomorrow evening.

        Reply
  11. Emily @ Recipes to Nourish says

    December 1, 2015 at 11:23 am

    I bet these smell great! Love homemade DIY’s like this. Such a fun gift to give this time of year too.

    Reply
  12. Sally says

    December 1, 2015 at 11:58 am

    Love your videos lately! So fun 🙂

    Reply
  13. Tina says

    December 1, 2015 at 12:16 pm

    Thank you for this! This is by far the easiest tutorial I have ever watched on how to make lip balms! I will definitely be giving this a try now as I am totally a lip balm junkie as well! 🙂

    Reply
  14. Megan Stevens says

    December 1, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    Love this flavor and the tutorial, thanks!

    Reply
  15. Rachel @ day2dayjoys says

    December 1, 2015 at 3:52 pm

    What a great gift idea for Christmas!

    Reply
  16. Melissa Moore says

    December 1, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    Perfect timing with this tutorial as I was just trying to figure out what DIY project I will do this year. Thank you, Kath!

    Reply
  17. Faith says

    December 2, 2015 at 12:18 am

    I am all about DIY skin & personal care recipes! I love the lavender & vanilla combination! Thanks for sharing!

    http://www.mydoterra.com/fmdoterra/#/

    Reply
  18. Libby says

    December 2, 2015 at 1:15 am

    What a beautiful gift these would make! I always like to give my girlfriends useable, handmade gifts so I’m adding this to my ‘to-make’ list this year. Thanks! 🙂

    Reply
  19. Sylvie says

    December 2, 2015 at 4:31 am

    What a great stocking stuffer idea!

    Reply
  20. Sagan says

    December 2, 2015 at 10:52 am

    Very cool idea! Most of the time when I find recipes for beauty products they include all kinds of weird ingredients I don’t know about. I like the simplicity of this one 🙂 Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  21. Robyn D says

    December 7, 2015 at 9:58 pm

    I love these, they are so easy to make! I add shea butter, as well and they are super healing for lips, cuticles, kitty paws, puppy noses and even an emergency hand lotion!

    Reply
  22. Tammy Le says

    December 14, 2015 at 6:29 pm

    This looks so easy and fun to make! Thanks for the awesome video 🙂

    Reply
  23. miro says

    January 12, 2016 at 2:10 pm

    I will be happy if you write a soap reciepe with honey (not joking)

    Reply
  24. Diy-Beauty-Recipes says

    February 9, 2016 at 1:34 pm

    I made a peppermint lip balm instead of lavender and it turned out really well. It’s really easy to make, it contains only 4 ingredients that can also be used in various other face and body recipes.
    It’s fun to make lip balms because you can customise lip balm recipe to your preferences and substitute oils and the butter with the ones you like better

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