Make your own organic and healthy homemade lipstick easily with natural ingredients. It’s an easy, fun project, made with cocoa butter, shea butter, and natural powders and clays for a tinted appearance.
Over the past few years, I have been working on making everything else I use on my body homemade and/or natural as well. For more great homemade beauty recipes click HERE.
These recipes are also wonderful lip balm recipes. They glide on smoothly and are great for healing chapped lips, or for just keeping your lips healthy.
The first recipe has cocoa or shea butter and makes a bit of a harder stick, while the second is a bit softer, great for lip balm pots.
Homemade Lipstick #1
This recipe will keep your lips soft and smooth. You can also mix and match your oils to create your own specialty lip balm. For ideas on coloring see below.
Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon beeswax (or candelilla wax)
- 2 teaspoons cocoa butter
- 1 teaspoon sweet almond oil
- 5 drops peppermint essential oil
Optional Color Add Ins:
- For Red Hues: 1/4 teaspoon of beet root powder and 1/4 teaspoon alkanet root powder.
- For Brown/Tan Hues: 1/4 teaspoon (or more for color) of cocoa powder, a tiny pinch of cinnamon or turmeric to get the shade you want.
- For a more Matte texture: 1/4 teaspoon. Use this with a color so it doesn’t leave a white tint on the lips.
Instructions:
- Gently melt all ingredients together on low heat.
- Add colorant.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool for a few minutes.
- Add Essential oil.
- Pour into lip balm tubes or pots.
Notes
- Stay away from lime, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot essential oils which can cause the sun to burn your lips.
- This recipe will make about 2 tubes or 1 pot of lip balm.
- You can also find these in my shop.
Homemade Lipstick #2
Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon beeswax (or candelilla wax)
- 3 teaspoons sweet almond oil
- 5 drops peppermint essential oil
Optional Color Add Ins:
- Red Hues: 1/4 teaspoon of beet root powder and 1/4 teaspoon alkanet root powder
- Brown/Tan Hues: 1/4 teaspoon (or more for color) of cocoa powder, a tiny pinch of cinnamon or turmeric to get the shade you want
- For a more Matte texture: 1/4 teaspoon bentonite clay. Use this with a color so it doesn’t leave a white tint on the lips.
Instructions:
- Gently melt all ingredients together on low heat.
- Add colorant.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool for a few minutes.
- Add Essential oil.
- Pour into lip balm tubes or pots.
Notes
- Stay away from lime, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot essential oils which can cause the sun to burn your lips.
- This recipe will make about 2 tubes or 1 pot of lip balm.
- You can also find these in my shop.
If you want to make a great lipstick naturally, you are going to have to add a bit more color. Natural lipsticks seem like they really are half pigment at least, which is great, but just slightly different to make than lip balms.
Homemade Lipstick #3
Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon beeswax
- 1 teaspoon cocoa butter
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil
- 4 drops essential oils of choice (peppermint plumps your lips slightly by increasing blood flow, so I like to use it in this recipe)
Optional Color Add-Ins:
- Red Hues: 1 teaspoon beet root powder and 1/4 teaspoon alkanet root powder
- Brown/Tan Hues: 1/2 teaspoon (or more for color) of cocoa powder, a tiny pinch of cinnamon or turmeric to get the shade you want (don’t use too much turmeric, unless you want your lips to stay yellow for a while).
- A more Matte texture: 1/2 teaspoon bentonite clay. Use this with a color so it doesn’t leave a white tint on the lips.
Instructions:
- Gently melt all ingredients together on low heat.
- Add colorant.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool for a few minutes.
- Add Essential oil.
- Pour into lip balm tubes or pots.
Notes
- Stay away from lime, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot essential oils which can cause the sun to burn your lips.
- This recipe will make about 2 tubes or 1 pot of lip balm.
- Also find these in my shop.
Directions:
- Melt the beeswax, shea butter/cocoa butter and coconut oil in a glass measuring container in a small pot of simmering (not boiling) water. It should melt quickly because so little of each ingredient is used.
- When melted, remove from heat and add any optional ingredients like color or scent .
- Once all ingredients are mixed well but still liquid, carefully pour into the lip container. I try to fill it until it’s almost overflowing. This reduces the chance of a hole forming as it cools and shrinks. Leave to cool for at least half an hour. Do not allow to set in the sun or it will melt. Plus, shea butter gets grainy if you over heat it. Cooking this once is fine, but you’ll find it grainy if you leave it in a hot car.
Notice how much lighter it gets when it cools, so remember to make yours look almost black when it’s hot.
