The Best Handmade Organic Lip Balm

By Rebecca Myers


Many people only turn to lip balm when their lips get chapped, or only in winter when the cold and wind tends to irritate lips. The truth is that lip balm is a great thing to use year round to protect lips not just from chapping, but from things like sun damage as well. The best of the best is handmade organic lip balm, because it is a high quality product.

Everyone craves silky smooth lips that are soft and even kissable, if that's your thing. Unfortunately, not taking proper care of them can lead to chapping, which is unsightly and hard for others to look at. If you start using balms as part of your daily routine, you can get into the habit of using them as a preventative measure quickly to ensure year-round silky lips.

The advantage of buying the organic kind is that they are made with ingredients that are natural and friendly to the earth. Many brands are also made with sustainably sourced ingredients, which means that they are harvested in a way that allows them to be grown back. Still others try to use local ingredients to support smaller businesses and farmers. Others get exotic ingredients, but ensure that they are fair trade, so that the merchants or artisan gets paid a fair wage.

Most of these balms start with a base, then other ingredients are added based on what the balm is specifically being made for. Most bases in organic balms begin with one of three ingredients, or a mixture of two or more. These ingredients are beeswax, coconut oil and cocoa butter. The amount of these depends on the recipe being used, and whether you want the product to soften your lips more, or protect your lips more.

Once the base is made, next comes the active ingredients. In natural products, this often means the use of herbs or essential oils to produce an intended effect. For example, if the product is needed to repair very chapped lips, peppermint, tea tree or other essential oils with healing properties might be used. If the balm is supposed to be relaxing and soothing, then something like lavender might be used.

There may even be some ingredients added for purely aesthetic reasons. For example, some rose-based formulas call for pieces of the actual rose petals to be put in. The use of the physical petals doesn't necessarily make it work better, but it looks very pretty and luxurious. If it is an exfoliating balm, then brown sugar might be used to help slough off dead skin. Even gold leaf has been used to symbolize high-end products.

These items are all melted down and mixed together, then poured into a container. These can range from balm sticks that you might see in a drug store, to small cosmetic tubes. They are left to cool, which allow the ingredients to form back into a solid.

Do something good for yourself and the planet while helping artisans by buying organic and handmade. It's good for your lips as well, and helps get your chapped and cracked smile back on track. Plus, you are providing a valuable source of income to the ingredient providers, which can go a long ways towards helping the economy.




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