Make Your Own Lip Healing Balm

Finding a good natural lip balm is relatively easy. Preparing your own green balm, surprisingly, is even easier. All you need is a little bit of organic soy wax from your soy candle, an essential oil of your choice, and a bit of mineral blusher or eyes hadow to add a delicate shimmery tint.

Golden Lip Healing Balm

1 tablespoon organic soy wax flakes.
1 scoop of coconut butter with a tablespoon.
3 drops vanilla extract.
1 drop chamomile essential oil.
1 drop rose essential oil.
1 pinch shimmery pink mineral blush.
1 pinch pure golden mineral glimmer.

Yield

4 ounces

I find that beeswax-based lip balms go stiff and dry on my lips faster than those based on other waxes. If formulated incorrectly, when too little beeswax is melted with too much oil, the wax can leave an unpleasant ridge along the lip contour. For this reason, I like to experiment with other waxes, like soy and jojoba, for my lip balms.
1. Place the soy wax and coconut butter in a metal tin from a cuticle butter or lip balm. Place it in a small enameled pan half-filled with water and double-boil until the wax mixture melts. Do not let mixture boil!
2. Carefully remove the tin and allow the mixture to cool slightly. Add essential oils and extracts and carefully swirl with a wooden toothpick.
3. Carefully spoon in the mineral pigments, adding each color one at a time to allow colorful waves of color to form.
4. Blend well and let the balm cool completely before using.
When combining colors of mineral pigments, be brave! Don’t hesitate to mix two or more shades of bright pink, mauve, or bright metallics. When you combine them in a single tin of a lip balm, you can create endless variations of natural-looking shades. If you come up with a particularly interesting color combination, you can make a larger batch of the balm and store it in a half-ounce glass jar, such as a container your eye cream might come in Many online companies sell inexpensive, small lidded glass jars for lip balm use.
As a general rule, lipsticks have more lasting power than lip-glosses, go on more smoothly, and are better for moisturizing your lips. During the summer, or anytime when the sun is shining, try to add some lip protection by rubbing a little bit of mineral foundation on your clean lips before applying the lipstick.
For a quick lip exfoliation, use ripe, juicy papaya. You can use leftovers from a fruit salad or dessert. Mash the papaya flesh into a juicy paste so you get at least a tablespoon of puree. Apply a generous amount of papaya pulp to the lips and skin around the lips. Find a comfortable couch or a recliner to spend a glorious ten or fifteen minutes doing nothing while papaya works on your lips. Rinse off with warm water and enjoy smooth, flake-free lips. For an even quicker exfoliation, rub the inside of papaya skin against your lips for a few minutes.The green beauty guide