How to make lipstick at home

Making lipstick at home is no longer a new thing. For girls who like to have lipsticks of various colors, making lipstick by yourself is more innovative than buying it. The main thing is that when making lipstick, you can add some essential oils you like according to your preferences to make your lipstick unique and have your own personality. To make lipstick at home, you need to prepare a lot of materials.

Making lip balm at home is relatively inexpensive and cost-effective. The materials we need to prepare are: beeswax, olive oil, vitamin E capsules, large bowl, small bowl, mixing spoon, empty lipstick tube, kitchen scale, medical alcohol, and sterile cotton swabs.

Beeswax can be purchased at pharmacies, bee product sellers, or JD.com and Alibaba. You can go to the clinic to buy some vitamin E capsules and alcohol, and you can use them to take vitamin E capsules. The prepared materials need to be counted, and no one should be missing.

2. Sterilize the utensils and containers

In order to ensure the cleanliness and hygiene of the lipstick, we need to disinfect the various utensils for making homemade lipstick first. Put the bowl and spoon into the sterilizer for disinfection first, and wipe the lipstick tube with medical alcohol for disinfection. You can also sterilize the bowls and spoons in advance, which will save a lot of time in making lipstick. When using ethanol disinfectant, be careful not to let it come into direct contact with the skin. Wipe the lip balm tube carefully to ensure the hygiene of your homemade lip balm container.

It is best to make multiple lipsticks at one time because this saves the preparation work of making lipsticks later. 15 grams of beeswax can make 10 lip balms. We can take 15 grams of beeswax and 35 grams of olive oil (you can buy Pechoin olive oil in the supermarket). This is a necessary preparation to enhance the moisturizing effect of homemade lip balm.

4. Liquify beeswax and blend it into olive oil

Pour 80℃ hot water into a large bowl, or boil the hot water and add cold water. It is best to keep the water temperature around 80 degrees. Place the small bowl containing 15 grams of beeswax into the large bowl and allow the beeswax to melt over water. After the beeswax is preheated and melted into liquid, we add olive oil (note that the ratio of olive oil to beeswax is 7:3) and stir quickly and evenly.

5. Add two vitamin E capsules

Prepare vitamin E capsules, then poke two vitamin E capsules with a toothpick and add them to the mixture of beeswax and olive oil. After stirring evenly, we can pour it into the lipstick tube. Vitamin E capsules act as antioxidants, fighting against fat-containing oxidation. Adding it to homemade lipstick will make it more gentle and non-irritating.

Place the tip of the chopstick on top of the lipstick tube. You can insert it into the tube a little bit, and then let the lipstick liquid flow down along the chopsticks. This will prevent the lipstick liquid from splashing out.

7. Let the lipstick take shape after 10 minutes

Let the lip balm solidify after 10 minutes. You can use it now. If you want it to have a scent, you can add edible essential oils to the lipstick stock solution. However, if it is for a pregnant woman or a child, do not add ingredients containing flavors and fragrances.