| Ahh! Valentines is just around the corner! I thought it would be great to do a week on possible gifts you can give the special man in your life for Valentines Day.
Now ladies, let’s all just admit it. We all like his lips to be soft and kissable. Rough lips just do not work. I have found that most men prefer a more firm lip balm. No problem. No more chapped lips from his time outside! Collect needed items:
Recipe:
Weigh all ingredients except the Lemon Essential Oil, USA and Sugar Baby Flavor Oil into your microwave safe container. Microwave in short bursts until all ingredients are melted. The beeswax will take the most time to melt, but if you stir the lip balm after the other oils have been heated, it will melt quickly. Once the mixture is melted, add the Lemon Essential Oil and Sugar Baby Flavor Oil. Stir until all of the flavor has been incorporated. Fill tubes or jars. Allow the lip balm to cool. Label. Enjoy!
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 Finished Lip Balm  Weighing Oils  Weighing Flavors  Melting Oils  Adding Flavors to Lip Balm  Ready to pour into Lip Balm Tray  Pouring Lip Balm Mixture |
I am going to try this one but am going to add a little honey flavor and see if the flavor is agreeable to my husband!!
To make this lip balm more manly, you can use the black lip balm tubes and caps available on thesage.com! Even cooler – the black tubes and caps are made from recycled plastic so its more earth friendly!
We are going to try this lip balm recipe. It is exciting to have a full week of ideas to make for the men in our lives. Thanks.
I love lemon-honey lip balm!! Yummy!
This sounds like a great recipe, and I like bluebeaker’s idea of using recycled plastic lip balm tubes/caps for the containers. I’ve noticed that my “men” like lip balm jars better than tubes for some reason.
Kathy
Sounds great especially with how dry it has been this winter on our poor skin and lips!
I am looking forward to trying lip balms soon. I have enjoyed reading through all of your recipes and look forward to trying some of them. I’ve noticed that you often use lanolin. Could you recommend a good substitute for lanolin in your recipes?
Lisa,
There isn’t an equal to lanolin but you can use mixtures
of castor oil and soy bean oil. Is there a reason you
don’t want to use lanolin?
Taylor
Taylor,
Thank you for your reply. I know many people love lanolin for its moisturizing properties and I would have no problem using it for others should they request it, but honestly I can’t get past where it comes from. It is just icky to me.
I read somewhere that rice bran oil can be an effective substitute for lanolin. Would you consider this to be true?
Lisa
I love unrefined shea in my lip balms, but it always fractionates! Until my high melt point shea arrives from you guys, what can I use instead on shea butter from the following list?
– avocado butter
– macadamia butter
– olive butter
– apricot butter
– mango butter (refined)
Lisa,
I sent your question to Tina so you would get the best response possible. Here are her comments.
Lisa,
HAHA! That is really cute. I guess since we spin wool and have to wash it and remove that protective coating from the wool it doesn’t bother me. I can understand your point though.
Lanolin has a stickiness to it that just isn’t found elsewhere. Lanolin is like the best of avocado oil with the long lasting power of Vaseline yet it isn’t a petroleum product. Lanolin has a low saponification value like beeswax and jojoba oil. Maybe jojoba is the best replacement. Jojoba glaze or gelly may be the best yet.
Tina
Simona,
Avocado, macadamia, olive and mango butters can all fractionate. I am not familiar with apricot butter.
Send your recipe to techsup@thesage.com and let them know you are having issues with fractionation. They will help you reformulate to get a good mixture. Send the complete recipe so they can see what is happening. Don’t worry about them sharing your stuff, they won’t. This is something they do every day.
Taylor
Dear Taylor,
I am not at all concerned about sharing the recipe , no 🙂 I have to look through my notes and send you guys an eMail 🙂
My biggest dream for the moment is to be able to use the Acai and Bluebetty butters from you for lip balms, and they both have shea butter in them 🙂
* lol 🙂 poor Betty :-). BluebeRRy, not BluebeTTy :-))
This is just perfect – I do not find that recipe written anywhere :-(( I guess I just threw it all away after spotting the graininess 🙂
For the moment I am pleased with a hemp lip balm – this one is made with candelilla wax, avocado butter, hemp extravirgin oil and refined mango butter. No graininess so far 🙂