A few weeks ago I hosted a fabulous "Make and Take" Essential Oils party with some of my friends and we made up this super simple lip scrub for everyone to take home. Towards the end of Summer/beginning of Fall my lips are always a little dry and chapped. Enter this super simple, customizable lip scrub to help gently exfoliate the dry skin on my lips, making it easier to apply lip balms and the occasional lipstick smoothly. It's so easy that all of the 5 year old girls there made one for themselves! DIY LIP SCRUB INGREDIENTS List contains affiliate links! Sugar-Raw or Granulated-up to you. I personally like the Raw for better exfoliation. Fractionated Coconut Oil Screw Top Tins Young Living Essential Oils-try Lavender, Peppermint, any of the Citrus ones, or your other favorite Vitality oil (careful if you have broken skin) DIY LIP SCRUB DIRECTIONS Fill tin container 2/3 full of the sugar of your choice. Add coconut oil to just cover the top of your sugar. Stir with a tooth pick. Cover and decorate lid. We just used heart stickers this time. That's it. Told you it was super simple! ...
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DIY Summer Lip Balm: Spearmint Vanilla Lime
Summer is off to a great start and we needed some new DIY summer lip balm flavors to help us enjoy the season. I had a lot of fun asking for suggestions on my Facebook page, Crafty Side of Essential Oils, and came up with this Spearmint Vanilla Lime lip balm mixture. DIY Summer Lip Balm Ingredients: (contains affiliate links) 1/4 cup refined coconut oil 2 tbsp & 2 tsps beeswax pastilles or grated beeswax 10 drops Lime Essential Oil (Get a discount on Young Living Premium Starter Kit) 8 drops Spearmint Essential Oil 5 drops organic Vanilla extract-optional 14 lip balm tubes 1 pipette (glass is safest but hard to clean, long plastic are easier to just throw away but get very hot) washi tape, duct tape or scotch packing tape for decorating DIY Summer Lip Balm Directions: Line up all your empty lip balm tubes in a safe place next to where you will be making this. This is a good pattern to put them in (obviously these are already filled) Melt together beeswax and coconut oil in double boiler. Some people make one by putting a mason jar in small pot of water or setting a glass or metal bowl over a small pot of boiling water. When completely melted ...
DIY Heart Shaped Lip Balm Tutorial
If you are looking for a fun, unique step up from a typical lip balm this one may be just the right thing! Heart Shaped Lip Balm Ingredients: These are the actual products/brands I used and are affiliate links. 2 Screw Top Round Steel Tins, 1/2 oz size heart shaped mini cookie cutter-with this set you can make a heart and another shape at the same time. plastic pipette-much easier than glass but not the safest option. If you are experienced with transferring lip balms you should be OK using these but glass is safest (and a mess to clean). 1/8 c. coconut oil 1 tbsp beeswax pastilles 1/8 tsp. agave nectar 10 drops essential oil. I used Young Living's Orange (YUM). 1/8 tsp beet root powder (please, please, please read my notes on this) How to Make Heart Shaped Lip Balm: Wash your tins and cookie cutters in warm soapy water and set out to dry. You must make sure there is no moisture in them before using. I like to do this the night before. Melt the coconut oil and beeswax in a double boiler over very low heat. If you have not made lip balm before please read either of these recipes for better instructions with photos: Peppermint Lip Balm or ...
Lavender Orange Lip Balm
It's been the week of DIY Essential Oils around here! First I made the bath salts, next I posted about the sugar scrub and today, it's all about the lip balm. Last winter my friend Jennifer from Threaded Together came over with some amazing Peppermint Lip Balm she had made. The stuff was awesome. Then in the summer she made Strawberry Lemonade Lip Balm which was incredible. I am hijacking off her recipe here and want to make sure she gets full inspirational credit. I have been wanting to try this for awhile with essential oils and finally the perfect combo came to me-Lavender Orange Lip Balm. It turned out great. Here are the directions to make your own! This will make 12 filled tubes. But with the beeswax bag you buy you could make 100's. Lavender Orange Lip Balm Ingredients: Coconut Oil Beeswax 1 Vitamin E capsule (optional) 12 Lip Balm Tubes Glass Pipette I used plastic this time because I was being lazy and the hot oil melted the first one. Buy glass. Young Living Orange Essential Oil Young Living Lavender Essential Oil (Save $25 on the new Young Living Premium Starter Kit) Washi Tape if you plan to decorate them after. Directions: Melt ...