Hydrating tallow lip balm

Dry lips are something I think more in winter, but they also happen in summer. Especially when you live in a really hot climate or sweat (like me). This lip balm recipe has a healthy tallow for a natural way to pamper your lips!

What is tallow?

Some of the latest health trends have presented vegan and plant ingredients. And although there are very good ingredients for plant skin care, those based on animals can be a nutritional center. If these ingredients come from high, outdoor and otherwise healthy animals.

The tallow makes a return and gets its time under the spotlight. This old animal fat comes from cows, but you can also make fatty fats (Saindoux) and other animals. Sheep tallow is also supposed to be really good, but I used beef tallow in this lip balm.

The tallow is naturally high in the palmitate, stearate and oliation of fatty acids. The upper layers of our skin are largely composed of lipids (fats), and this barrier must be protected to avoid skin damage. Since tallow is an animal fat, it has the unique ability to interact with lipids in our skin. A meta-analysis has also revealed that tallow can increase the composition of fatty acids in our skin, the more it hydrates and hydrates.

In total, this makes tallow an excellent option to protect and hydrate our lips. You can learn more about the benefits of the tallow here.

Other nourishing ingredients for lips

The tallow alone will work very well, but it is sensitive to temperature. He also does not travel well in a lip balm container. I added beeswax to this recipe to add a little more firmness and provide even more than a protective barrier to the skin. You can do it with a half-secure and half of the beeswax, but I also wanted to add a liquid support oil.

I used apricot oil, but any liquid support oil will work. Olive oil, avocado oil, jojoba oil, macadamia nut oil and sweet almond oil are all good options.

And finally, I used certain essential oils to give it a nice perfume. Make sure you use those who are safe for lips to avoid irritation or photosensitivity. The last thing you want is to reduce a lip balm before a day at the beach and get an unpleasant sunburn! Here is a list of certain essential oils which are sure to use on the lips (as long as they are diluted).

• Sweet orange
• Lavender
• Pink
• Incense
• Grapefruit
• Patchouli
• Peppermint
• Geranium
• Tangerine

You can also mix and match to create your own perfume! The maximum dilution ratio recommended for lips is often (but not always) from 4 to 5%. These recipes use essential oils at 2%, but you can change the quantity (or omit) if you wish. You can find high quality essential oils here.

How many lip balms do it do?

Typical lip balm tubes keep a little less than 1 teaspoon. This recipe will fill around 10 tubes of lip balm, but you can increase or decrease the quantity as you wish. I used metal zipper boxes and this recipe gave 5.

More lip recipes

If you are on a roll and want to make more DIY lip recipes, here are some of my favorites.

Are you a fan of lip balm? What are your favorite flavors or perfumes to use? Let a comment and let us know!