Homemade Lip Gloss Recipe - How to Make Your Very Own Flavored Lip Balm

Little girls as well as adult women love flavored lip- gloss. It is fun to apply and has a great taste. I especially like the shine. It's great to wear on those days when you don't want to wear makeup, just slap on the lip-gloss and you are off. The different flavors are the best part of the lip-gloss. Another great thing is making your own. Using a flavored lip-gloss kit found on Martha Stewarts "Good Living" website you can make it in any flavor you want.

You can combine the many essential oils creating delicious new unique flavors. The kit provides you with 5 bottles of essential oils. They are the essential oils of lime, lemon, tangerine, grapefruit, or peppermint. The kit also includes 12 empty plastic pots, empty plastic tubes, and pots of beeswax.

You can customize a basic recipe with your pot of unscented oil and wax. You will also need to use:

A thin-tipped marker,
Cooking pot and stove,
Measuring spoons,
Paper cup,
Paper towels,
Lipstick
A utility knife.

It is a good idea to begin by hand washing all mixing jars, plastic tubes, and plastic pots. Dry them thoroughly. Set aside two pipettes to measure the essential oil. A pipette, acts like a baster, drawing the oil or lip balm up inside. Use the remaining pipettes to stir the lip balm, and transfer it to the tubes and pots. To get a glossy lip balm, add an extra 1½-teaspoon of sunflower or safflower oil.

Fill the pot with 1" of water, and bring to a boil; lower the heat to medium. Combine teaspoons of the beeswax beads and 5 teaspoons sunflower or safflower oil in a mixing jar, and set the jar into the pot; the water should be below the rim of the jar.

Stir the mixture using the pipette; the wax will begin to immediately melt. After it is thoroughly mixed, add the preferred oil one drop at a time. I recommend limiting the total number of 10 drops to prevent an overpowering scent.

You can experiment with the assorted oils provided you wash the pipette with warm water before adding different oils.

For an added touch, add lipstick shavings from old discarded lipsticks, directly to the mixing jar until you reach desired color you like. When you are satisfied with the scent and color of the balm, use a clean pipette to fill the tubes and pots.

Caution; lip balm is hot. Fill each container to the rim. Allow lip balm to settle for a few minutes, after filling tubes then add a final drop. The extra drop helps to prevent holes that can form in the center.

Leave the lip balm to set for 20 minutes before you replace the lids. Return it to the boiling water to melt if lip balm hardens inside glass mixing jar.

Discard all pipettes; pour any leftover lip balm into a paper cup before disposing of it. Use a paper towel to wipe lip balm from inside the mixing jar; if the lip balm has hardened in the jar, return it to the boiling water to melt before wiping it off.

Hand-wash the mixing jar with soap and hot water. Now you can enjoy your very own flavored lip balm.

You can also create pretty colors with unusual patterns with your essential oils for your very own extra special lip balm. To make a bull's-eye, fill a pot with lip balm, and allow it to set for at least 20 minutes.

Once it is set, press a cap from one of the plastic tubes open-side down into the middle of the pot. Twist and remove the cap; a round chunk of lip balm should come away in the cap.

Add another color of melted lip balm into the hole, flush with the first color, and let it harden. To make a striped design, use the utility knife and fill one pot with one color of lip balm and allow it to set.

Once it has hardened cut four parallel lines through the lip balm. Put a second color of melted lip balm into the empty slot you've made until it is lever with the first color, and all to set.

I have made lemon-lime flavored and lemon-orange lip-gloss. Lemon peppermint as well as grapefruit-peppermint do not go together. Do not attempt this combination or you will find yourself unkissable. Trust me.

Please let me know in the comment box below if you have the Martha Stewart kit and have created unusual ideas

for original lip-gloss flavors.

Thanks for reading.