April 14, 2011
Last weekend this homemade lip balm post was stumbled upon.
My resident technical director tried to explain what happened and I kind of understand (I have a hard time processing what I can't put my hands on). But what I do understand is this - that lip balm post, written over 2 years ago, generated some serious traffic on the blog this week.
My lip "balmed" lips. Up close and personal.
The high point was Sunday with nearly 4,000 visits to the blog. Of course, things have let up a bit and traffic has steadily dropped since then but I am still well above my average for daily visitors. If you are one of these new visitors WELCOME!
The irony is that I am too busy right now with moving to make lip balm! The good thing is I make large batches that last a long time. So currently we're using up dibs and dabs from months long past until after we move and I'm able to make another batch.
Seriously, if you've never made lip balm before you really should try, at least once. It's super easy and inexpensive (per unit). It makes great gifts and is appreciated by a lot of people.
Do you have any questions or experience with making lip balm? I would love to hear it.
And if you are new here, again, Welcome. I don't usually post so many close up photos of my lips. I hope you'll decide to stick around a bit. And if you're here just for how-to body care tutorials be sure to check out my Homemade Soap, Body Care & Herbal Remedies resource page.
I have always wanted to try this. I would also like to make my own deodorant. Do you have a tutorial for this?
No tutorial as such but I have my recipe posted here.
Yes! I love making lip balm. So yummy. I do add cinnamon, clove and lavender essential oils to mine--different recipe so I've not had trouble blending it. I LOVE to see others making these things as well. It's so fun and so much better!
I LOVE your lip balm recipe!! It's so nice to actually KNOW and be able to PRONOUNCE the ingredients in this lip balm. I first made it this past fall and gave samples to most of our friends and family. They ALL agree that it's a wonderful lip balm! One thing I did different in a few of the tubes I made was add some clove essential oil to the recipe. It seems to help some people who suffer from frequent fever blisters because of it's natural antiseptic and pain relieving properties. I really need to get one of those lip balm fill trays from Elements (I get my lip balm tubes and labels from them) because I have had a huge demand for this lip balm since giving out all those samples. I haven't had any problems with the essential oils not mixing well but my liquid honey doesn't mix in well at all (it puddles up at the bottom of my measuring cup when I'm pouring). It looks like I'll be buying some raw honey soon to remedy that problem :) Thanks for such a wonderful recipe!!
My daughter and I made lip balm this fall with a different recipe (only beeswax, coconut oil, raw honey and peppermint essential oil). It was super easy and we love it. Tastes great too :) The downside will be melting in the summer - but that is the case with any natural lipbalms we've bought from small companies too. I was primarily buying Burts Bees before (about $4/tube !!!) and my lipbalm cost about .35/a tin... except that really, I already had everything but the litte tins at home. I am a total lip balm addict and have adapted easily to the homemade recipe.
I am definitely going to be trying this! Thanks for posting up your recipe, cant wait! Love your glasses by the way, so cute and I think we have the same nose ring :)
Love the recipe, thanks! Do you have a source for round label templates? I have tried creating my own, but I'm not enough of a whiz to make a nice label. Thanks!
I made my own using the computer. You can see a sample in this post from last year's Christmas gifting. I recommend a google search.
I can't find anything called 'hard honey'. I've found 'whipped honey'. Will that work? Thanks so much for all you share with us. I'm so excited to get to try this!
CM
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Spring on April 15, 2011, 12:23 a.m.
I was surprised at how easy it was to make something so useful, lovely and fun! (Except getting that essential oil to mix in, like you said). Thanks for the tutorial and inspiration! (Hooked on the lotion making now, too, thanks to your blog- this last batch was a lime-shea-coconut cream... mmm. smells so good, and very moisturizing!) :)