Homemade Vegan Sweet Orange Lip Balm Recipe
🍊Pucker up and lip clap to your chapped and flaky lips good bye! This formulation was prepared with lip care routine in mind. When you're done exfoliating your lips 💋, ultra-nourishing and protecting lip balm is what your lips need. Enjoy having fun making this vegan lip care treat🍡! Now let's make homemade vegan sweet orange lip balm recipe.
DIY SKINCARE
Get to make your own lip balm recipe that is vegan, contains no harmful ingredients like mineral oils, paraffin wax, fragrance oils or other dangerous preservatives. This lip balm preparation want to help you to achieve ultra-nourished and well-protected lips without using cheap lip balms containing non-natural fillers. If this is your first post to read here, consider reading another recipe here.
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Sweet Orange Lip Balm
This recipe is very vegan friendly and does not use either artificial ingredients or animal derived products into making the lip balm. The lip balm contains natural butter and wax that can nourish your lips and hydrate them by sealing in moisture by forming a protective barrier on the lip skin that can prevent them from UV rays damage, harsh winds and cold.
Spend your spare time making something for yourself that will not only make you happy but at the end of the day when you use it you appreciate the results and efforts you poured into making this rewarding recipe. Now brace yourself and let's make our lip balm!
Selecting Ingredients
Mango butter: It contains vitamin A, E and C that can be nourishing for your lips. But also mango butter contains essential fatty acids that can deeply moisturize, hydrate and heal lesions, sores around lips and broken lips.
Carnauba wax: It is derived from a Brazilian palm tree. This wax is a good emollient that can coat your lips and prevent them from getting flaky or chapped. This wax can make your lips smooth and soft. It has always been part of lip balm and lipstick formulations.
Coconut oil: This carrier oil works best in many of our DIY skincare recipes and thought it will be of help in combating broken and chapped lips. Coconut oil has anti-microbial and healing properties, both which are good for restoring dry and chapped lips. It is always a good idea to use coconut oil in your lip care routine either in your DIY lip balms or lip scrubs plus the coconut scent is just amazing!
Olive oil: It has high content of oleic acid, omega fatty acids and vitamin E that can heal cracked lips, moisturize and ultra-nourish lips. Olive oil can keep your lips soft and supple to kiss!
Sweet orange essential oil: If you want your lip balm to stand out then adding few drops of your favorite essential oil will do the trick! Your lip balm is going to have citrusy touch to it. You can replace sweet orange with lemon, tangerine or grapefruit essential oil.
Vitamin E oil: This ingredient act as a preservative to our lip balm. It They can also repair damaged lips from harsh weather, plumps and soften the lips. Vitamin E oil can fight off free radicals from the sun and protect your lips. This ingredient can also act as a natural preservative in your lip balm.
Ingredients
1 heaping tablespoon of mango butter
1 tablespoon of carnauba wax pellets
1 tablespoon of coconut oil
2 teaspoons of olive oil
5 drops of sweet orange essential oil
10 drops of Vitamin E oil
Before starting your recipe making it is always a good idea to start by collecting your tools like small heat-resistant bowl, measuring cups, measuring spoons, wooden spoons, lip balm tubes and double boiler or saucepot, and ingredients together to reduce down time in recipe making.
Instructions
Measure out your ingredients: cocoa butter, carnauba wax pellets, coconut oil and olive oil into a glass measuring cup and place in a saucepan of few inches of simmering water.
Let the saucepan to be on stove top until your carnauba wax and cocoa butter have melted and mixed together.
Now remove from the heat.
Next add your sweet orange essential oil and vitamin E oil. Vitamin E oil for nourishing your lips and sweet orange essential oil for that orangey-citrus smell.
Then carefully pour your mixture to your designated lip balm containers, they can be lip balm tins, lip balm jars and lip balm tubes.
Allow the mixture harden and cool at room temperature.
QUICK TIP: To prevent air bubbles in your lip balm, use lip tube filling tray, if you don't have one use blow dryer to re-melt the lip balm and add more mixture and fill the hole in lip balm tubes. If you're using lip balm jars or pots, this won't be an issue.
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