How to Make Tinted Vegan Lip Balm
Do you like tinted lip balms and wanted to make one? You can make it at home using simple ingredients for yourself or to gift to friends. This would make an awesome gift for your family and friends.
Ingredients required:
1) Castor oil: Castor oil gives shine to the lip balms and lipstick. It also has thick consistency which makes good slide. I would not suggest to replace it with other oil.
2) Coconut oil: Coconut oil has moisturizing abilities. It works great on chapped lips.
If you are allergic to coconut oil, you could swap it with other light oils like Avocado oil.
3) Shea butter: Shea butter is mostly used in balms and salves for its emollient properties. It has great repair capabilities. If you want balm to be hard, you can use a hard butter like cocoa butter.
Alternatives: Kokum butter, mango butter
4) Carnauba wax: Candellila wax and Carnauba wax are vegan alternatives for beeswax.
Carnauba wax is derived from Palm tree leaves. It has high melting points and takes more time for melting than beeswax. It provides gloss and shine to lip products. Also, used in mascara. If you want to replace it will beeswax, ratios would be different and you might need to add more beeswax to make it the same.
5) Flavor oil: I have used banana lip flavor oil. We can use any other flavor oil which is permitted in lip products. Please don't use essential oils in lip balms which are not approved for lip products.
Usage rate of flavor oils: 0.5-3% ( You can always check with supplier for correct usage rates because it differ with suppliers)
6) Colorant: I have used Red Annatto Oleoresin which is natural and extracted using ethanol as solvent.
Usage rate of Annatto oleo resin: 0.3- 1%
Any lip approved colors or mica can be used. But I preferred to use a natural one here. We can also infuse herbs to give light color. Watch the space for more such content on how to infuse herbs, guidelines and more.
These ingredients can be used to make balms, salves and more. Buy products with good shelf life if you make in small quantities.
Now, coming to the percentage of these ingredients used.
Castor oil 10%
Coconut oil 38.5%
Shea butter 30%
Carnauba wax 20%
Colorant 0.5%
Banana FO 1%
I have made a 10 gram product. Let's see how to convert percentages to grams.
If you want to make a 100 gram product, weight of all ingredients should total to 100. And the weights of each product would be
Castor oil 10 grams
Coconut oil 38.5 grams and so on
But, here we are only making 10 gram product and would make 2 lip balms. So, we will divide the weights by 10 to make a 10 gram batch. The weights of ingredients would be as follow.
Castor oil: 10/10= 1 gram
Coconut oil: 38.5/10 = 3.85 grams
Shea butter: 30/10 = 3 grams
Carnauba wax: 20/10 = 2 grams
Colorant: 05/10 = 0.05 grams
Flavor oil: 1/10 = 0.1 gram
Procedure:
- Weigh all the ingredients using a scale and pour in a glass beaker. Always use a scale which weighs up-to 0.01 gram for accuracy.
- Put the beaker in double boiler. I am using a steel vessel to prepare double boiler. Pour water in the vessel up-to half.
- Heat the vessel on a gas stove or induction stove for 20 minutes.
- Let all the ingredients melt. Carnauba wax takes long time to melt because of high melting point.
- Once all the ingredients are melted you can remove it from heat. Let it cool down a bit to add color and flavor oil.
- Mix everything thoroughly without any lumps. Pour it in lip balm container or lip balm tube.
- As it cools down, you can see the balm getting hard
- Yummy lip balm with natural ingredients is ready.
- You can use it as a lip mask at night
Shelf life:
This can be used within 3 months since oils will start oxidation.
Where to buy ingredients:
I have bought coconut oil and castor oil from local herbal stores (Balu Herbals, Hyderabad)
You can easily get it from Amazon.
If you want to watch how I did it, here is the video
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