Homemade Tea Tree Oil Lip Balm

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Does your skin perpetually feel dry, including your lips? Did you know how easy it is to make homemade lip balms? Try this Tea Tree Oil Lip Balm and they will have that smooth feeling of great skin. Check out the other tea tree uses here as well!

You have to try this natural lip balm recipe for dry lips – I love Burt’s Bees lip balm and this one is so much like it because it’s made with natural ingredients and no harsh chemicals.

I love adding peppermint (mentha piperita) and tea tree oil (melaleuca alternifolia) to my lip balm. Tea tree oil is so healing and can relieve chapped lips as well as cold sores.

The volatile hydrocarbons found in the oil are considered aromatic and capable of traveling through air, pores of the skin and mucus membranes. That’s why tea tree oil is commonly used aromatically and topically to kill germs, fight infections and soothe skin conditions.

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Shea Butter for Lips

Shea Butter is a rich source fatty acids and can also provide topical skin-soothing benefits. Shea Butter is said to have anti-inflammatory properties and is often used to heal and prevent chapped lips.

Shea butter is highly emollient which means that it’s excellent at preventing dryness speeds up the cell-renewal process.

Shea and cocoa butter are both natural types of fats that come from the shea tree and cocoa bean, respectively. Butters, like shea and cocoa, help your lips hold on to moisture and help heal chapped lips, according to the AAD.

Coconut Oil for Lips

The primary benefit of coconut oil is its moisturizing effects. With its nourishing fatty acid content, vitamins, and minerals, it’s a prime ingredient to soothe and soften the skin.

Peppermint Oil

Peppermint essential oil has antibacterial properties which means it helps keep the cracks in your lips from becoming infected.

Read more about Peppermint Oil for Lips

Tea Tree Oil

Tea tree oil is also AMAZING for the skin. Besides fighting bacteria, it also has healing properties that helps with cuts, scrapes and redness.

Read more about Tea Tree Oil Benefits

Note: This lip balm is for external use only. Never ingest tea tree oil.

Easy Tea Tree Oil Lip Balm Recipe

Ingredients
2 tablespoons beeswax pastilles
2 tablespoons shea butter
2 tablespoons coconut oil
15 drops peppermint essential oil
15 drops tea tree oil
1 drop vitamin E (optional)

Instructions

Melt beeswax, shea butter and coconut oil in a double boiler or small glass bowl over a small pot of boiling water, stirring constantly until melted.
Remove pan from heat but keep over the still-hot water to keep the mixture melted.
Add essential oils to your preference.
Let tubes sit at room temperature for several hours in a cool dry place until cooled and completely hardened before capping them.

You can use either the lip balm tubes like I used, or you can use these cute little jars! They are available on Amazon here for super cheap.

Homemade Tea Tree Oil Lip Balm for Dry Skin Recipe

Materials

2 tablespoons beeswax pastilles
2 tablespoons shea butter
2 tablespoons coconut oil
15 drops peppermint essential oil
15 drops tea tree oil
1 drop vitamin E (optional)

Tools

double boiler
spoon or whisk
small containers for lip balm

Instructions

Melt beeswax, shea butter and coconut oil in a double boiler or small glass bowl over a small pot of boiling water, stirring constantly until melted.
Remove pan from heat but keep over the still-hot water to keep the mixture melted.
Add essential oils and vitamin e (if using) to your preference.
Let tubes sit at room temperature for several hours in a cool dry place until cooled and completely hardened before capping them.

Notes

You can use either the lip balm tubes like I used, or you can use these cute little jars! They are available on Amazon here for super cheap.

I love Rocky Mountain Oils because of their quality 100% pure essential oils that require no minimum purchase and always gives FREE shipping! Plus they always have specials going on!

Rocky Mountain Oils’ essential oils are verified by a third-party, independent lab. GC/MS tests verify purity and quality of the oils sold so you can look at the bottom of the bottle to find your individual batch code and then input that number into our website to pull up the GC/MS test results.

Rocky Mountain Products can be returned for any reason, even if opened, for up to 90 days. RMO also pays for our customers’ return shipping expenses to make our ordering process completely risk-free.

RMO includes three different icons for recommended use on each bottle for easy reference: Diffuse, Topical Application and Household. So you can look at the bottle and know in what way it’s intended for use.