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This article will teach you how to make your own tinted and flavoured lip balm, which not only gives your lips a hint of colour, but smells great and moisturises your lips. It's extremely easy and completely free.



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    What you need is: A small jar with a lid to store the finished product, a bowl, a spoon, a microwave, petroleum jelly and red food flavouring. Optional: If you want your lip balm to have SPF in it, you can also add some of your suncream in.
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    Take a scoop of petroleum jelly with your spoon and put it in the microwavable bowl.
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    If you want to add some SPF in it, put some of your suncream in the bowl.

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    Put the bowl in the microwave for 1 minute. Keep microwaving the mixture until it turns into a complete liquid.
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    Now add colouring. You are using food colouring instead of lipsticks and eyeshadows which means it doesn't have any harm on your body even if you eat it by mistake since it's 'food' colouring which you basically put inside foods. The more colouring you add, the more redder the lip balm will be. You can also put a few drops of yellow food colouring for an orange tinted lip balm, and of course, you can also use any loose eye-shadow and pigments instead or with the food colouring.
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    Mix the contents of the bowl really well with a spoon, stirring continuously. Keep stirring until the colour combines with the petroleum jelly, and put it in the microwave if you want the lip balm to look flat and new:) Then just simply put in in the refrigerator to keep it cool and hardened.

Now you're done!!!♡


  • Try matching the food flavouring with the colour of the lip balm. If your lip balm is bright red, consider using strawberry food colouring. If your lip balm is a very pale colour, use peppermint. If it's a golden-orange-bronze colour, use vanilla or orange flavour.
  • If you have an old eyeshadow, blush or lipstick that you really don't want, consider putting the entire thing in. Your lip balm will have fantastic pigmentation.
  • You can also label the lip balm if you want, and give it a name, such as "Super Strawberry" or "Light Lemon" or "Pink Peppermint."
  • You can add very fine glitter to the lip balm before you put it into the container.
  • You can put stickers on the lid of the jar if you want, to decorate it.
  • If you have a leftover eos, just scoop that out, add some food coloring, microwave it, scoop it back into the container, and refrigerate it.


  • Be careful when you take the bowl out of the microwave! It'll be really hot!
  • Don't use essential oil for flavouring. It is not lip safe.

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Categories: Lip Gloss and Balms


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