I think more about dry lips in winter, but they happen in summer too. Especially when you live in very hot climates or sweat (like me). This lip balm recipe has healthy tallow that can naturally pamper your lips!
What is tallow?
Some of the latest health trends feature vegetarian and plant-based ingredients. Although there are some very good plant-based skin care ingredients, animal-based skin care products can be a driving force for nutrition. If these ingredients are from ranch-raised, free range and other healthy animals.
Tallow made a comeback, making it a time to watch. This ancient animal-based fat comes from cows, but you can also produce fat from pigs (lard) and other animals. Sheep and cattle should be very good too, but I used beef and beef in this lip balm.
Tahin is naturally high in fatty acid palmitate, stearic acid salts and fatty acids. The top layer of our skin consists primarily of lipids (fats) and this barrier needs to be protected from skin damage. Since tallow is animal fat, it has a unique ability to interact with skin lipids. The meta-analysis also found that tallow may increase fatty acid components in our skin and moisturize and moisturize.
Overall, this makes tallow an ideal choice for protecting and moisturizing our lips. You can read more about the benefits of Tallow here.
Other lip nutritional ingredients
Tahin itself will be good, but it is temperature sensitive. It won’t be too good in a lip balm container either. I added beeswax to this recipe to add some firmness and provide more protective barriers on the skin. You can make it with half of tallow and half of beeswax, but I also want to add liquid carrier oil.
I used apricot oil, but any liquid carrier oil would work. Olive oil, avocado oil, jojoba oil, macadamia oil and sweet almond oil are all good choices.
Finally, I used some essential oils to give it a nice smell. Please make sure to use safe lips to avoid any irritation or photosensitive. The last thing you want is spend the whole day on the beach with a lemon-flavored lip balm and then get annoying lip sunburn! Here is a list of some essential oils that are safe to use on the lips (as long as it is diluted).
- Sweet orange
- Lavender
- Rose
- mastic
- Grapefruit
- Guangxiang
- Mint
- Geranium
- Tangerine
You can also mix and match to create your own scent! The recommended maximum lip dilution rate is usually (but not always) 4% to 5%. This recipe uses essential oils at 2% rate, but you can change the amount (or omit it) if you want. You can find high-quality essential oils here.
Moisturizing tallow fat
This lip balm glides on smooth to nourish lips. Customize the scent with your favorite essential oils!
yield: 1.5 ounce
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Add beeswax, tallow and liquid oil to a small glass bowl or top of a double boiler.
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Fill the bottom pan with a few inches of water and place the bowl or other pan on top.
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Bring water to a boil over medium heat. Stir the ingredients when melted.
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Add essential oils after melting.
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Immediately pour the mixture into a lip balm container and cool until room temperature.
If your tallow is very soft at room temperature, you may need to add more beeswax to get a firmer consistency.
How many lip balms do this?
A typical lip balm tube holds only less than 1 teaspoon. This recipe will fill about 10 lip balm tubes, but you can increase or decrease the amount as needed. I used a metal lip glass jar and this recipe produced 5 of them.
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Are you a lip balm fan? What are your favorite flavors or aromas? Leave a comment and let us know!
