Homemade Tallow Lip Balm Recipe - Full Tutorial
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
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Protect your lips with this glide-on tallow lip balm made with only two inexpensive ingredients. This frugal recipe is quick and easy and is super nourishing.
00:00 Intro
00:18 Why use tallow?
00:45 Main ingredients: tallow and beeswax
01:10 Why use a scale?
01:20 Calculating how much of each ingredient you'll need
01:50 Does it need a preservative?
02:32 Adjusting the texture of the lip balm (How to make it softer or harder)
03:15 Ideal ratio of tallow to beeswax
03:30 Using a double boiler (or a bowl and a pot of water)
03:50 Optional ingredients: Vitamin E
04:35 Adding essential oils
05:00 Being careful with phototoxic oils
05:15 Good oils for a lip balm: sweet orange, peppermint, cinnamon
05:44 Lip balm tubes, tins, containers, and other options
06:35 Measuring out the ingredients
07:00 Which scale is best?
07:42 Melting the ingredients
08:00 Adding the optional ingredients
08:45 Pouring into containers
09:15 Getting a smooth top (fixing the indentation)
10:10 Applying the lip balm
10:35 Saving money
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing!
You're very welcome! Glad you liked it!
They look great and very simple to make.
Super easy and super nourishing! A great beginner project! 😊
Belleza de lipstick, gracias
De nada! 😊
Thank you! This looks like a great project. My son wants strawberry flavoured lib balm-instead of essential oil can I use strawberry flavouring?
Yes! Ideally, you'll want to look for an oil-based flavoring. (Or maybe glycerin based) Anything alcohol-based may or may not stay incorporated into the mixture. Water-based products would need an emulsifier or solubilizer and technically a preservative. Of course, you'd be using a super small amount, so you may be able to incorporate an extract without issues, but I'm not sure.
Can I use it as a “wax” stick for my toddler hair?
Thank u in advance
Hmmm.... interesting question.
I've never used a wax on my hair, so I'm not too familiar with the texture of the products sold or how they work in the hair. I'll have to look into it more.
That said, I'd imagine it would work. I use the tallow balm (without the wax) in my hair often and love how it adds a bit of softness and shine.
I followed the recipe exactly. It only made one .15 oz tube. Shouldn’t it have a carrier oil like almond oil? The end product was dry and cake-like. I could not apply it to my lips because it was so dry.
Where did you get your tallow from? (Mine is homemade, but I have also bought it from several places.)
Mine is quite soft so it needs the wax to harden it up. If yours is very hard for some reason, yes, you could use a carrier oil to soften it. I've never needed it, though, and my finished lip balm is very soft and glides on very easily.
Something else sounds off, though, as I get 3 of the standard sized 5ml lipgloss tubes (which I think are the .15oz your are talking about).
What are you using to weigh it out?
I've made this several times now and never had issues.