How to Make All Natural Lip Butter Balm 💋 Easy Diy Recipe | Ellen Ruth Soap

hello and welcome to ellen ruth soap i'm ellen  and today i'm not making soap we're gonna make   lip butter uh mint and honey lip butter balm  to be specific i'm so excited to do this   i have made chapsticks for my family and friends  before um with just a basic recipe but this one   this recipe i'm crazy about it's so nice and  moisturizing especially in the winter months   and the cold if you're outdoors at all your lips  i don't know my lips get very chapped and dry   well this recipe has a shea butter and cocoa  butter and vitamin e oil and some peppermint   essential oil and i'll leave the full recipe in  the description box below i'm so excited to do   this because i bought this from wholesale supplies  plus and it's a lip balm holder tube holder so   like i said i've made lip balms before and i'll  show you the little tubes here i get them in bulk   and then you have to buy the caps  too so these come separate from these   i do get mine from a wholesale supplies plus  they had a sale going on they have a great   price for these so i get the little tubes and  this is so handy so before i would balance them   and pour and every once in a while they  tip over and it was just like a nightmare   so this is so handy the little tube you pop  them in here and when you get them all and   so i'll put a couple in they literally just fit  perfectly the silicone and you get them all in   there and you can pour your lip balms and if any  pour over just goes on here and it cleans up like   a dream so i'm excited this is going to be my  first time using this little lip balm holder   so i'm going to get everything pulled together  and get my hair pulled back i'm going to sanitize   all my equipment and my work surface and we'll  get the ingredients this is a simple recipe but   it's so nourishing and i think you'll love it as  much as i do so let's make some lip balm buttery   lip balm all right i've got my work surface all  sanitized and i'm getting ready to start measuring   my oils and butters here but first i just wanted  to show you again how to load up this little uh   silicone mold holder for the lip tubes and i don't  know exactly how many tubes i'm going to need   so um i just spritz these out with isopropyl  alcohol and let them air dry and i'm going to   get them all stuffed in here i'm going to go ahead  and load this whole thing up and we'll see how far   this recipe goes i believe the volume of it it's  going to make maybe 20 to 30 tubes but we will see   this is kind of fun this  would be something fun to have   children help you with you know making lip balms  is super easy and you're not dealing with any   caustic materials like sodium hydroxide so this  is a wonderful thing to do with young people   and if you want to get really creative you  could add a lip safe colorant to these put   a little shimmer or glow in there i'm going  to leave these uncolored i just like natural   chapstick but you can definitely you know spice  it up a little with some lip safe colorants or even um wholesale supplies plus i know  and i think bramble berry carries uh flavored   lip scents and colors or not colors but flavored  um fragrances for lip things so if you wanted like   a strawberry lip balm or something i don't know it  kind of grosses me out a little when i was a kid   we'd have those big gigantic chapsticks um lip  smackers i think they were called and they would   be like dr pepper flavor and you know candy  flavors and there are some kids that would eat   them and it just about made me gag i don't know i  have bad um association with flavored lip things   so that is not my jam but if that's yours you you  know there are things available that you can get   for flavored uh flavored lip stuff but that's  uh that's not what i'm about well anyway yeah   childhood memories and it was like  a big thing to um you'd have them on   sort of a lanyard you'd carry your chapstick  around your neck like a necklace and it was   like a status symbol when i was in grade school  this is you know this is back in the day people so   i was born in 66 so this would be in the 70s you  know carrying your big lip smackers around your   neck that was what was cool before the internet  existed all right so they're all loaded on here   this is kind of cute i like how secure they are  and so now that they're on here this is stable   and i can just pour and this has a little  lip on it so if i have any over pour because   my hands aren't the steadiest but it will  all be contained so cleanup will be real easy   too so there's that um and let's get to measuring  out our ingredients here so i have my scale   and today i'm going to be measuring in grams  because it's such tiny volume so here is from   wholesale supplies plus it's their yellow beeswax  pastillis and this also has a little bit of my um   my homemade beeswax not homemade but home rendered  beeswax i shaved it uh down so it's a it's a mix   of store-bought and home beeswax but i need 26  grams of beeswax and these are so easy to measure   in small increments that big block was really  hard to deal with there's 24 there we go 26   all right 26 grams of beeswax and next  i'm going to do 21 grams of coconut oil   but first i'm going to go ahead and get this  started melting because beeswax has such a high   melting point and uh this does have shea butter  going in there and i don't want the shea butter   to get overheated because it can get grainy so  i'm going to go ahead and pre-melt my beeswax and   then we'll come back and finish measuring the rest  of our ingredients all right i've got my beeswax   almost all the way melted here and so we'll get  onto measuring time for the coconut oil and i got   this uh coconut oil at costco it's organic  and it was on sale a great price so and   it's hard my basement is cold so i'm going  to kind of chip it out here with my knife   but i we need 21 grams of coconut  oil is what i'm going for here just a hair over so i got 24 grams  in there because my scale was slow   but that's okay next on the agenda  is i needed 30 grams of cocoa butter so i'm gonna tear that out and  i get these cocoa butter wafers   from wholesale supplies plus and i will show you  here if i can get the top open um they come in   both this natural yellow and the white wafers  i've mixed them in here because i was at the   end of a bag they both are wonderful these  smell a little more like cocoa butter to me   um i just these were on sale and so i got the  lighter ones i do not have a preference but   that's what that is so i'm going to actually use  the yellow ones here so i'm going to get 30 grams   of cocoa butter going in here and i'll  see if i can pick out my yellow wafers because you know i think the cocoa  butter smell is really wonderful there we go 30 grams and then we'll tear  out and next is 40 grams of shea butter all right and i'll just start plopping  them in here i get this in bulk and uh   it was in a bag that was messy so i've kind  of scrapped it all out and put it in this tupperware all right we're going up to 40. and now i need 2 grams of vitamin e oil and i got  this on amazon but you can find this at walmart or   any pretty much any um drugstore or pharmacy  type store or grocery store even for that matter   so just vitamin e oil and i'm going to do 2  grams so just a little bit but it's so good   moisturizing all right let's tear that  out this is just a paper popsicle stick   that i got in my cake decorating department uh  they're biodegradable they're made out of paper   and they make wonderful stir sticks so i you know  for beeswax i like to use disposable things and   these are compostable and it's all great yeah  because beeswax is really a mess to clean up   when you have it in something like a lotion bar or  a chapstick type situation it's easier to clean up   because the oils soften it but just straight up  beeswax i have containers designated just for   melting beeswax when i'm doing you know beeswax  candles and things because it's really it's a   mess and it's sticky and you know it's it's  wonderful substance natural beeswax but it is   a mess to deal with alone getting that stirred  in so i have my peppermint essential oil here   and i'm going to just put a few drops not a  lot because you know this is a small batch so three four five six seven eight nine ten  stir in ten here and see how that smells   i want these to be nice and you know cool  kind of tingly on your lips but not shocking all right let's see yeah that smells wonderful oh this  just smells fantastic so what i am going to do   here is take my pipettes and i'm going to try  and fill my tubes using my pipettes because i   don't have a very steady hand i'm going to see how  that goes if it doesn't work out i'll just pour   but i wanted to try the pipettes first  the problem with the pipettes is it cools   uh and because of the beeswax  these harden pretty quickly   so if it doesn't work i'm so just going to give  it a try here and see see if we can do this and i want to fill them right up to the top that is really slow i'm going to go ahead and try pouring   all right so it's been a couple of hours and what  i'm gonna do is come in with my little scraper   and just get any loose stuff off the top  here and if you have a lot it'll come off   and i've got it scraped down but it's still a  little messy looking on top so here is a tip   to get the tops of your lip balms glossy  and smooth again you take your heat gun   and this is heat resistant  silicone so it's going to be okay   you just want to you know be careful because  the hot heat gun gets very hot i'm going to turn   it on and i'm just going to gently go over the  top of these till they get a little bit liquid   and just smooth out and that will just put a  really nice finish on the top of each of these   hello all right and now i'm just going to let  these sit for a few more hours before i come   and unmold them my basement is very cold um so  i don't need to pop this in the refrigerator or   anything i'm just going to walk away go get some  other things done and we'll come back when we're   ready for the next step it's been a couple of  hours and this is totally stable and cooled but   see how nice and glossy the tops are when you do  the heat gun on top it just makes it very smooth   so now we can go ahead and start pulling these  out so i'm just going to keep unmolding these and   setting them off to the side here and then we will  get the caps on when we're ready for that step   all right so i've got them all unmolded  i have a clean paper towel here   so what i do is i take it and just make sure the  flat clean end and just go around the very ridge   where the lid is going to be hitting and make  sure there's no tiny little drips or anything   i cap it and there it is and i'll show you  how i label these after i get these all capped all right they're all capped and  cooled and everything's ready to go   this is what i choose to label them with i got  this on onlinelabels.com and i use their label   designer maestro to design my lip balm labels  and there's multiple ideas and designs so   this is just what i like i like the craft it  kind of goes with my whole theme of my shop so   what i do is i take my tube and it's already  been wiped down but i have another clean dry   paper towel and i just go over it again  because i want the label to adhere really well   make sure it's nice and squeaky clean so uh what  i do it's it's going to be really hard for you to   see on camera here but there is a very faint um  if i can see a very faint line going up the tube   just from manufacturing the tubes i i've  noticed that they've i've used many different   tubes before and they all have a very faint  little line going up and that is going to be   my guideline to get this label on straight i like  for um just you know it's sanitary once this is   sealed and labeled it will not be opened until  the user buys it and opens it for the first time   so i find my little line on there and i line my  label up oh the studio lighting is rough for this   but i get it lined up and get it  started and just roll it around   so here is my finished lip balm butter and i will  leave a link to um online labels down below and   any of the things that i used today making  these i'll leave links for those down below   they're super easy to make and very fun and  i love this recipe personally i really like   this recipe in the winter especially but i  hope you give it a try and have a great day you