Homemade lip balm with rosehips and 12 ways to use it

This easy to make natural lip balm with rosehip seed oil and coconut oil moistures regenerates and soothes your dry and chapped lips. It will help to bring your lips back to its healthy state if applied regularly.

Adding this exfoliating lip scrub to your weekly skincare routine is also a great way to enhance your dry lips.

During cold winter months when the air is dry and we start to heat our houses inside we tend to lick the lips more often. Wind and sun are other contributors of dry lips. When we lick our lips, we moisten them and they get chapped. So more we lick, more they become dry. 

What to do if our lips are constantly dry?

• To stops this habit we need to apply natural lip balm several times a day
• Keep it at our hands so it is available any time
• Drink enough water so our skin and lips are well hydrated.

What makes the best lip balm?

Whether you want to make your own lip balm or you prefer to buy one make sure you check the ingredients first. Avoid lip balms with chemicals such as parabens, petrolatum, BHA (used as a preservative in many commercially sold lip balms), artificial fragrances and flavours.

The way to go when making or buying your perfect lip balm is to search for natural ingredients such as coconut oil, cocoa butter, beeswax, oils, vitamin E alternatively essential oils. 

Just simply switch from paraben based lip balms to real natural lip balms and you are on the right path to having the best lip balm for your lips.

If you want to make naturally pink lip balm, this one with beetroot powder, is the best.

So what are the ingredients:

Rosehip seed oil

packed with fatty acid and vitamins A, C and E rosehip seed oil brings many medicinal benefits to the skin. While Vitamin C helps with cell regeneration, Vitamin A encourages its growth.  Well known for its anti-ageing properties, rosehip seed oil make the lips vibrant and glowing. If you suffer from discolouration of your lips or you want to lighten them up, rosehip oil possesses astringent properties that tighten up the skin and brighten the colour of your lips. It’s moisturizing and anti-inflammatory properties help the lips to heal faster from cracks and dryness (1)

Rosehip oil appears in many skincare care products I have made in the past such as this eye cream or homemade soap with rosehips

Coconut oil

I use coconut oil wherever I can as I like its smell, texture and properties. I was glad to discover its liquid version (coconut oil fractionated) so I can infuse herbs in it too. Coconut oil is not only great moisturizer for our skin but I use it when cooking too. Anyway, when we apply coconut oil on the lips it creates a lipid layer that locks the moisture and decreases evaporation. It works well for dry and chapped lips that are sensitive to moisture loss.

Beeswax

 A natural wax produced by bees, beeswax is very often used in the cosmetic industry to make lip balms, lip gloss, salves and other moisturizers mainly for its moisturizing properties.  Discover other beeswax uses such as moustache wax, for polishing furniture or for making candles. 

For our lip balm, it’s important that It gives the lip balm perfect texture and that it possesses with antibacterial as well as anti-inflammatory properties (2). Beeswax also contains natural emulsifiers that keep the lips from drying out further. 

Homemade lip balm recipe

We need to start with making rosehip oil, respective collect the rosehips first. If you want to skip this step you can purchase the rosehip seed oil here. 

We will need to use double boiler to place all the ingredients in there and gently melt the mixture till the beeswax and coconut oil melt. Warm it up very gently and slowly stir.

Once the mixture is consistent you can add vitamin E or any essential oils of your choice – just a few drops to add fragrance (Rosemary, Eucalyptus, Sweet Orange, peppermint, lemon, lime or just keep it natural as we did.

Now comes the important part to come up with the right consistency of the mixture so it is easy to fill in the lip balm tubes. I like it a little bit densier so let it cool down a little bit. If it is too dense you can always put it back to double boiler and warm it up a bit.  

Once you fill up your containers you need to wait for another 30 minutes to get the right structure of lip balm and you can enjoy it.

Now you made around 4 lip balm tubes, look what can you do with it

12 ways to use your natural lip balm

• It is called lip balm so you better use it on your lips. You will love it so much that you will never go back to the shop to get one. 
• Lip balms are moisturizers that work on the other parts of your body too. If you suffer from dry skin on elbows or heel – use lip balm(maybe the other tube:) It’s also a handy addition to your long flight essentials, helping to combat the drying effects of the cabin air and keeping your skin hydrated throughout the journey.
• You know the feeling when you suffer running nose, your nose is red and dry. Use lip balm to ease the irritation and prevent further dryness.
• Do you have sore nail cuticles? Apply your rich and rejuvenating lip balm around your cuticles to make them soft and easy to push back or cut.
• Since this lip balm contains rosehip seed oil that can strengthen your nails apply this lip balm on your nails once a week to protect them from breakage. 
• This homemade lip balm can help you with your disobedient eyebrow. If your eyebrow hair stick out or stray outside of your primary eyebrow shape you can pluck them with this homemade lip balm
• If you want to make your eyeshadow last longer, apply lip balm first across your eyelids before applying eye shadow. They will stay untouched till evening.

Can you make homemade natural lip balm without beeswax?

You can replace the beeswax with shea butter or vegan waxes. In that case, I suggest you look at a lip balm alternative.

• Use your lip balm to highlight your cheekbones. The healthy natural glow that is all that is going on these days and that what highlighters are for. Save your cash because your natural lip balm does the trick. Start with the tops of your cheekbones and keep on applying down the centre and finish with the tip of your nose. Then continue with your blush as normal.
• Next time you are annoyed with tame flyaways (those little baby hairs that never grow) use lip balm instead of hairspray that is heavier and can make your hair sticky.
•  Replace a piece of toilet paper with your lip balm while cutting yourself when shaving. Lip balm can stop minor cut and start the healing process much faster.
• Use your lip to protect your skin from hair dye. Next time you colour your hair applies lip balm along your hairline. That way you will prevent the hair dye to color your skin.
• Apply lipstick under your eyes. Lip balm hydrates the area under your eyes and reduces the appearance of lines. In addition, since we use rosehip seed oil in this lip balm it also brightens the colour of dark circles under.  

Enjoy your natural and homemade lip balm and let me know how do you like to use it the most (except for lips)

Great advantage of homemade lip balms is that you know the ingredients and you can adjust them as per your needs. In addition, you make more than lip balm tube which allows you to use it for various purposes.