12 Kissable DIY Lip Balm Recipes - DIY Beauty Diva

12 Kissable DIY Lip Balm

Recipes

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About the Author

Hello! I'm Lorraine Dallmeier and I run DIY Beauty Diva (). Thank you so much for downloading my free eBook on 12 Kissable DIY Lip Balm Recipes.

I'm a Botanical Skincare Scientist & Biologist with a love of herbs. I've been writing my own skincare recipes for years and regularly share my knowledge and skills through my articles and recipes.

As well as running DIY Beauty Diva

and my Herb & Hedgerow skincare

science blog, I am also the Director

of Formula Botanica, the international online Organic

Lorraine Dallmeier Botanical Skincare Scientist

Cosmetic Science School.

We have taught over 400 students in more than 35 countries

around the world how to make their own natural & organic

skincare and have watched dozens of brands launch and grow

because of their training with Formula Botanica.

I also sell BeautyCraft app for iPhone, which contains over 90 fun recipes for DIY beauty products that you can easily make with ingredients in your local supermarkets and has been downloaded in over 60 countries.

I hope you enjoy this free eBook and that you enjoy experimenting with my 12 Kissable Lip Balm Recipes!



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Table of Contents

Chapter Why do we use lip balms? How to make a lip balm Formula for a generic lip balm Lip balm ingredients: Waxes Lip balm ingredients: Butters Lip balm ingredients: Plant oils Lip balm ingredients: Essential oils Equipment 1. Tinted Rose Lip Balm 2. Tinted Red Lip Balm 3. Vanilla Chai Lip Balm 4. Sensual Lip Balm 5. Zesty Lip Balm 6. Vitamin E Lip Balm 7. Mint Choc Chip Lip Balm 8. Sexy Chocolate Truffle Lip Balm 9. Spicy Orange Lip Balm 10. Christmas Spice Lip Balm 11. Turkish Delight Lip Balm 12. Honey & Almond Lip Balm



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Why do we use lip balms?

Lips are used in so many different activities ? we use them in facial expressions, when we talk, when we eat, when we drink and when we kiss. Given how much we use them, it's important to keep your lips soft and supple and to keep the skin on your lips healthy.

The skin on your lips is comprised of only 3-5 cellular layers, which is why your lips can so easily start to bleed if they are chapped or dry, or if you pick the skin off them. In comparison, the skin on your face contains up to 16 cellular layers.

The skin on your lips is also generally much lighter in colour than the rest of your body's skin. Particularly in light-skinned people, your lip skin contains fewer cells called melanocytes ? these are the cells that produce melanin, which determines our skin colour.

Given that your lip skin is only 3-5 layers deep, there are no sweat glands. This means that your lip skin doesn't sweat and it doesn't produce sebum, your skin's natural oil. Without sweat and sebum your lips dry out quicker than other parts of your skin. Dry skin is damaged quicker, which is why chapped lips are such as a common occurrence.

A lip balm effectively provides that protective layer that you would normally get from your skin's natural oils. In covering your lips with an occlusive layer, it does two things ? firstly, it locks moisture in and secondly, it makes it harder for the heat and cold to dry out your lips.



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How to make a lip balm

All natural lip balms are a blend of waxes and emollients (skinsoftening plant oils and butters) and essential oils for fragrance and flavour.

You can choose ingredients purely for their smells; fruity essential oils are popular because they taste like fruit too. You can also just make plain lip balms which are just a blend of waxes and butters with no overt flavour or scent to them at all.

When making your own lip balms, keep in mind that the blend needs to be fairly thick so that it sticks to the lips and doesn't just drip off or absorb too fast. A good balm should have staying power!

WARNING! Because we are using essential oils on our lips (which as we just saw have very thin skin), we only use a maximum 1% dilution of essential oils.

Essential oils are effectively potent natural chemicals which contain sensitisers. We don't use essential oils neat on the skin and we don't use high percentages of essential oils on our lips. Some of the recipes in this book also use citrus essential oils which are can cause sensitivity in some people and need to be used at a low concentration.



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