Home made skin care products

HOME MADE SKIN CARE PRODUCTS – LIP BALMS

Make Your Own Skin Care Products

With suitable raw materials and knowledge you can easily make these products in your own kitchen. You can therefore produce high quality products with the best ingredients. Making your own home made skin care products is fast, fun and it's also a good extra source of income.
Although there are indeed some good products in the market place, the knowledge of how to tailor them to your own or your clients' individual needs is quiet new.

Getting Started - Make Your Own Lip Balms

Lips can be sensitive to the actions of the sun, wind, dry air, bacteria and salty foods. They often require little extra protection. Through the use of natural fats and waxes lips can be cared for without lip balms having to be applied over and over again. The need for continual applications can be the result of using lip balms containing Vaseline or Paraffin Oil from the petroleum industry.
There are many different fats, waxes and Vegetable Oils which can be used to make a lip balm base and different active ingredients which can be added to create particular kinds of lip balm. The waxes protect the lips while the Vegetable Oils soften them.
The lip balm base needs to contain more wax than the base ointment so that it will remain hard even on a warm summer's day and so it doesn't deposit too much fat on the lips.

Base Lip Balm
Recipe 1 (for Jars)
33gr Beeswax
65ml Vegetable Oil (Orange Lemon, Mandarin, Lime, Grapefruit, Anise, Fennel or a small amount of Peppermint. We use large amounts of Essential Oils to compensate for heat evaporation.)
2 ml Essential Oils
Recipe 2 (Jars and Lip Balm Cylinders)
28gr Beeswax
20gr Cocoa butter
50ml/gr Vegetable Oils (Orange Lemon, Mandarin, Lime, Grapefruit, Anise, Fennel or a small amount of Peppermint. We use large amounts of Essential Oils to compensate for heat evaporation.)
2 ml Essential oils (40 - 50 drops)

Method
Heat all the ingredients except any Essential Oils in the beaker or stainless steel cup immersed in a pan of hot water (double boiler).
Stir and melt fully.
When everything has melted, add 30 drops of each Essential Oil (or 60 of a blend of them).
You can pour this product into a glass jar or professional lip balm cylinder.
When pouring into cylinders, pour up to 3/4 full, allow to cool and then, after 10 minutes, top up (the contents will have contracted slightly).
Leave for a few minutes before putting on the lids.
Different kinds of lip balm can be made through the addition of other fat-soluble ingredients (see below). For every e.g. 5ml of anything else which is liquid you will need to remove 5ml of the Vegetable Oil. Most of the additional ingredients, apart from Essential Oils, will need to be heated with the main ingredients.
Here are some examples of what you can add to the base lip balm to make the type of lip balm you want:
Lip balm for sun protection - add Tiosol (10ml for sun factor 12, or 5ml for sun factor 5-6)
Lip balm with Zinc - add 5ml Zinc Oxide (do not reduce the amount of Vegetable Oil)
Tea Tree lip balm (for sore lips) - add 1 - 8ml Tea Tree Oil and 1 - 2ml Lavender Oil as your Essential Oils
Vitamin lip balm - add 2ml Vitamin E and 5 drops of Carotene.