This easy to make, all-natural homemade beetroot lip balm is a great way to naturally tint your lips while also nourishing them and keeping them soft.

Homemade Beetroot Lip Balm

This homemade beetroot lip balm not only adds a lovely tint to your lips, but it also helps with improving blood circulation to the area while help to repairing dry and damaged lips.

Carrier Oils

When making a salve, choosing the correct carrier oil can improve the impact of the salve as each carrier oil has its own set of distinct properties. Blending a couple of carrier oils can also help maximise their benefits.

With this salve recipe, there are multiple carrier oils that could be used including:

Avocado Oil
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Sweet Almond Oil
Argan Oil
Rosehip Oil
Hemp Oil
Safflower Oil

You can learn more about carrier oils here.

Essential Oils

You can add a few drops of essential oils to this lip balm if you wish, though please remember that essential oils are potent, and need to be diluted. As this lip balm is being used on your lips, you will need to use essential oils that are gentle enough to be applied to your lips – and used in the correct quantities.

Just be careful using some essential oils such as tea tree and peppermint, around children and pregnant women, making sure to do your research before using.

I personally prefer not to use essential oils in my lip balms as they may enter your mouth and I do not recommend ingesting essential oils.

Lip Balm Tips and Tricks

This recipe can be used with a number of different infused oils instead of the carrier oil
Essential oils are optional. If you want to add some, try using bergamot, orange, peppermint, spearmint or cinnamon.
A small amount of honey could be added for extra healing properties, though this will affect the shelf life of the product. It would be best to store it in the fridge and use quickly.
I live in a hot climate, so this is made with adding extra beeswax to stop it from melting during hot summers, thus making this a harder lip balm. You may want to decrease/increase the beeswax to suit your climate. You can test the consistency of your lip balm by placing a small amount of mixture into the freezer for 2 minutes. Then take it out and let it come to room temperature before testing its hardness. If it is too soft, add a little more beeswax, if too hard, add a little more oil.
You can substitute carnauba wax for beeswax, though it is harder than beeswax, so you will probably need to decrease the amount slightly.
Vitamin E is optional, and is often added to beauty products as an antioxidant to prevent rancidity, as well as for its amazing skin-healing properties.

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Ingredients for Making Beetroot Lip Balm

To make beetroot lip balm, you will need:

4 tsp Beetroot Powder
4 TBSP Glycerin
2 TBSP Beeswax
2 TBSP Coconut Oil
5 drops Essential Oils – Optional

TIP – When using beeswax in your products, just note that it does harden very quickly as it cools. This means that it can be quite difficult to remove from the dishes and cutlery that is used. For this reason, I have dedicated bowls and cutlery that is only used for making homemade products, especially ones that contain beeswax.

Making Beetroot Lip Balm

Place the glycerin in a glass jug.

Mix in the beetroot powder and leave the mixture to stand for a few hours or overnight to infuse.

When infused, place the beeswax and coconut oil in a microwaveable container and heat for 30 seconds at a time in the microwave until the beeswax is completely melted. Stir in between each heat burst.

This process could also be done in a double boiler.

Slowly and carefully pour the glycerin mixture into the beeswax mixture and whisk quickly to mix together.

Add the essential oil if using and mix through.

Allow the mixture to cool down, mixing on a regular basis to make sure the red is incorporated throughout the mixture.

Then pour the mixture into small glass jars, lip balm containers or tins.

Let the lip balm cool and set.

The lip balm is now ready to label, date and store.

Storing This Lip Balm

Place the lip balm in small glass jars, Lip Balm Containers or Push Up Containers to protect it from exposure to light and air.

Store in the fridge and throw out if you see mould appear.

When properly stored, this lip should last up to one month.