When your face gets scorched by the sun or roasted under a humidity wave, the delicate skin of the lips is often the first to feel damage. Your choices are either to suffer in silence or to nip dryness in the bud. If you choose the latter, a homemade lip balm is a great way to treat chaps, cracks, and sores while using up odd ends around the kitchen. The following honey-based recipe will not only help keep your lips soft and healthy-looking, but it is also truly good enough to eat!
The most fun part about our honey lip balm recipe is that it’s entirely customizable based on your own taste and mood. Beyond the base of honey and olive oil, you can experiment with the other ingredients as you wish. Though we recommend squalane for its superior moisturizing capacity, you can try substituting with a cooking oil like canola. We selected lemon and pomegranate oils for added antioxidants and fragrance preference, but you can also use almond, strawberry, cinnamon, orange, anise, cherry, vanilla, and peppermint oils. If you decide to go with an extract (which is water-based) instead of a flavored oil, you’ll need to shake the mixture thoroughly before application.
All of the aforementioned oils and extracts are easy to find and have a mild odor that won’t overpower your natural scent. When mixed with the key emollients, our lip balm is thick to the touch and absorbs into the lips almost instantly, making them feel noticeably hydrated and plump. As we’ve covered before, olive oil is one of the best botanicals for skin care due to its remarkably high antioxidant capacity. Meanwhile, honey is both a natural skin-softener and a powerful antibacterial agent. Because of its low shimmer factor and colorless transparency, our homemade balm is perfect for men and women alike.
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copley do you carry this around with you? It sounds wonderful but I’m just wondering that since it’s an oily liquid, how would you package it so that you could have it with you to apply it through out the day. I can see myself spilling it all over me….
my favourite honey lip balm is Nuxe. It’s superb !!
Where do I purchase squalane and lemon oil?
I’m kinda loving the ybf…cool shape, too.
When I whipped up this recipe, I stored the balm in a ramekin covered with plastic wrap. As you pointed out, the gooey consistency does not lend itself to travel. Unless you have an empty squirt dispenser bottle or perhaps some small tupperware, this balm seems best suited for home. It is ideal for a night treatment or for lazy weekends indoors (since there’s no SPF). You should find lemon oil in the baking aisle of your local grocery store, and can purchase squalane from a number of online retailers including:
http://www.eskinstore.com/
http://www.skinactives.com/
http://www.lotioncrafter.com/