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Making a Lip Balm
Hi all,
Winter is here in the southern hemisphere and I’d like to make a lip balm for my chapped lips. I also wanted to add ascorbic acid and vitamin E to add more benefits. The batch size is 50g and the tube is a black colored tube. Here’s the formula I thought of:
Jojoba oil
Sweet Almond oil
Beeswax
Shea butter
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
Lip balm flavor
Vitamin E - natural alpha-tocopherolAscorbic Acid
Rosemary antioxidant
My questions are
1. How much % of ascorbic acid and vitamin E Should I use for lips?
2. How to make the vitamin C as stable as possible?
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8 Replies
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Ascorbic acid is unnecessary and waste in a lip balm. Besides since you will be using oils only water soluble ingredients will ruin your batch. Also check if your rosemary oil soluble. Personally in lip balm, I like oils and butters only and generally follow this recipe.
20% wax
20% hard butter
20% soft butter and
40 oil %.
You don’t need a lot of vitamin E
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I usually use 0.20 % for Lip products of Tocopheryl Acetate ( Vitamin E ).
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Make sure you realize, T Acetate….does not protect your oils….if that was your goal? Acetate form is used for purported skin benefit. MT-E is for oil protection. They are very different in what they do.
.1% of MT-E …. should be plenty!
For the question you will ask in a few months….. Swap the shea for murumuru…and it will assure your product never becomes grainy. ???? (Check stearic acid levels in Muru…. vs Shea.)
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If you can get Murumuru that was sourced out of ICSC of Denmark …. you’ll even be further miles ahead. For that matter….all their oils are world class! (I almost don’t use any oil…that is not sourced from them! They are not even playing the same game…as other oil suppliers. I have an odd-ball pain cream that has some oils they don’t carry.)
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Very true about Shea butter. How grainy it becomes if it’s not heated correctly or there is change in temperature, is the main reason I hardly use it anymore. I’ve heard people say refined Shea butter is better
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Shea is always one melt cycle away from grainy. You can’t change what it is made of. (You can control how it assembles…when you make it….but out of your hands….next time it melts. Just unbelievable better options…without the stank…and greasiness.
Refined vs unrefined…should make no difference as that process should not change the fatty acid profile. Simply one is gross…and the other is very gross! ????
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Hey guys, appreciate the input! I made the lip balm and I used Shea butter. I actually don’t have a problem with Shea butter. It wasn’t grainy and I used unrefined. The recipe I made is as follows:
20% Beeswax
10% Shea butter
10% mango butter
20% Cocoa butter
18% jojoba oil
13.9% sweet almond oil
4% caprylic/capric triglyceride
3% flavor oil
1% fragrance oil
0.1% ROE
The lip balm turned out great in terms of texture, smell and application. However, it didn’t hold the moisture in and after applying multiple times throughout the day. My lips would still be chapped. I’m not feeling any improvements. I thought maybe it would be a good idea to add mineral oil to hold the moisture in. What do you think? If so, how much should I add?
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