Lip Care Recipes

How To Make Chapstick With Shea Butter

Let’s learn how to make chapstick with shea butter with only 2 ingredients today! My chapstick recipe is guaranteed to take you less than 10 minutes to make. Using this regularly will deeply hydrate your lips, leaving them soft, supple, and utterly kissable.

Whether I want to give my chapped lips a little TLC, or look a little put-together for a quick grocery run, or want my matte lipstick to last longer without cracking, I automatically reach out for my trusty homemade chapstick.

One other benefit of making your own lip balm is that is it very cost-efficient and makes great gifts!

Shea butter benefits for the lips

The beauty industry really hit the jackpot when they discovered the benefits of shea butter for the skin, including the lips. Rich in fatty acids, vitamins, and antioxidants, shea butter is the perfect moisturizing agent. Vitamins A and E work to provide ample hydration to heal and prevent chapped lips. Shea butter is also highly emollient, allowing it to penetrate and lock in moisture.

How To Make Chapstick Key Ingredients

Its nutrient-rich content helps provide intense moisture to the lips, leaving them soft and supple.

It targets chapped and damaged lips and contains natural emulsifiers that help moisture retention.

(optional)

Heals cracked lips and offers a soothing, cooling, and calming effect. Plus it leaves a little tingle on your lips that it always fun!

How to make homemade chapstick

A very basic chapstick recipe is to melt shea butter and wax together. Pour it in a container and let it solidify before you apply it.

How do you make homemade lip balm without beeswax?

If you don’t have beeswax, candelilla wax can work as a good alternative.

Click here for full DIY lip balm recipe without beeswax.

How do you make a natural chapstick?

It’s super easy to make chapstick with shea butter, follow my instructions below, and you’re surely going to love it!

Tip to make homemade chapsticks and avoid a mess in the kitchen

If you like me and it looks like a hurricane went through the kitchen every time you make something DIY, I suggest you get one of those very handy lip balm container tray kit. It will hold your lip balm containers while you pour the warm liquid wax and will avoid you to spill it everywhere and make a hot mess!

You can get a lip balm tray kit here on amazon here.

Otherwise, you will have to rely on your balancing and patience skills while filled each empty lip balm tubes. Its doable but if you are making a lot of lip balm at once, the tray kit is defenitely helpful.

How To Make Chapstick with Shea butter

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes

Instructions

  • Melt the Shea butter and beeswax together in a double boiler or an aluminum bowl inside a pan filled with warm water on low to medium heat.
  • Add the essential oil if desired, this is optional.
  • Pour immediately into lip balm containers while it is still liquid wax and then wait until everything cools down and harden to use the chapstick (at least 1 hour).
  • This recipe makes 4 to 5 * 0.15 oz lip balm container and can last up to 1 year (but also depending on the shelf life of the butter you use).
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How can I make my lips naturally pink?

Hydrate yourself! It’s very important that you treat yourself from within for the results to show on your lips.

Other than this, regularly exfoliating your lips with a  natural scrub, and moisturizing them with this homemade chapstick is surely going to help make your lips pinker and plumper.

Don’t miss to try my pink lip gloss recipe with beetroot which will make your lips very shiny and naturally pink!

If you are looking for a honey-based lip gloss recipe, head here.

If you are looking for how to make a lipstick like a pro, get the recipe here.

Where to buy a DIY chapstick making kit?

If you don’t have the ingredients and the lip balm containers, you can buy a lip balm kit that has everything you need here.

DIY chapstick holder

If you are like me and keep loosing your umbrella and your chapstick, I’ve found a solution for you: the chapstick key holder!

Its basically a little fabric pouch you attached to your key chain and then insert your favorite homemade lip balm. That way you should be able to always know where your lip balm is, hehe!
You can buy one already made if you are lazy like me…I love those natural burlap bags, they make great reusable gift packaging.

And if you like to sew, then this DIY chapstick holder project on make it love it may just be for you!

 

 

 

Eve Cabanel

I’m Eve, a DIY organic skincare recipe creator since 2010 that loves to make a big mess in the kitchen! I’ve embarked on a journey to empower women to ditch all the chemical-filled commercial beauty products and to share how to make your own organic beauty recipes at home towards a healthier lifestyle. Homemade face & body creams, body butter, lips balms, face masks, shampoos, and all-natural perfume will have no more secret for you! I am self-taught, read many books, and spend many hours in the kitchen creating brand new homemade beauty recipes. All my recipes are unique and are tested on humans! In 2016, I studied Aromatherapy and became certified by the School of Natural Health Sciences.

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