Plant-based oils and butters commonly found in natural hand soaps and natural lip balms include coconut oil, which moisturizes, softens, and fights bacteria; shea butter, an emollient and anti-inflammatory; and argan oil, which is an antioxidant that helps protect against sun damage.
Lip balm often contains beeswax or carnauba wax, camphor, cetyl alcohol, lanolin, paraffin, and petrolatum, among other ingredients. Some varieties contain dyes, flavor, fragrance, phenol, salicylic acid, and sunscreen.
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Beeswax protects lips and retains lip moisture
Beeswax has lubricating, softening activities and reduces trans-epidermal water loss from skin1. This means it helps protect lips from becoming dry or chapped. Beeswax is also an occlusive, meaning it forms a moisturizing, protective layer on the surface of the lips3.
ALL NATURAL: Enriched with 100% natural origin ingredients, this natural lip balm is formulated without parabens, phthalates, petrolatum or SLS. BURT'S BEES LIP BALM TIN: Naturally beautify and revitalize your lips with the refreshing tingle of original Beeswax lip balm.
Organic lip balm formulations use strictly natural ingredients such as beeswax, cocoa butter, Vitamin C and Vitamin E, to provide color and promote softness and moisture. Many organic lip balms are also cruelty-free and eco-friendly, and contain fewer ingredients, which better for both your body and the environment.
Benefits of coconut oil for lips
The primary benefit of coconut oil is its moisturizing effects. This makes it ideal for chapped lips. Your lips are particularly sensitive to moisture loss because the skin is thin, and they're exposed to the elements more so than other parts of your skin.
To make lip balm without beeswax, start by heating 1 tablespoon of shea butter or coconut oil over the lowest setting on your stove until it melts. Then, remove the pan from the heat and stir in 1 tablespoon of raw honey and 4 drops of an essential oil, such as peppermint or rose.
Moisturizing – Beeswax contains natural emulsifiers that help retain moisture, making it a great ingredient for dry, chapped lips. Protects lips from UV rays – Much like how sunblock protects your skin, beeswax can protect your lips from harmful UV rays.
Some of the best ingredients in lip balm are castor oil and hemp seed oil to help soothe chapped lips. Choose balms that are fragrance-free and hypoallergenic, and make sure to drink plenty of water to help hydrate chapped lips.
The watery, gel-like substance found in aloe vera leaves has soothing, healing, and anti-inflammatory properties that make it ideal for treating skin conditions, including chapped lips. Pure aloe vera is safe to use on sensitive areas where other skin products shouldn't go, like your lips and under your eyes.
Honey can help moisturize your lips and protect cracked lips from infection. It also works as a mild exfoliator and can help remove dry, dead skin from your lips. Choose organic honey, and apply to your lips throughout the day using your fingers or a cotton swab.
Dandelion & Plantain Chapped Lips Treatment
Dandelion and plantain are two of the best skin-healing herbs around. The best part about them is that they're often available in your own yard, free for the picking! This lip balm recipe has a softer texture so that it's easy to use when poured into tins.
Some other good essential oils that are safe to use in lip balm are: lavender, sweet orange, clove (use very little as it's warming and strong), tea tree (use very little as it's strong), spearmint, mandarin, lime and of course peppermint and lemon.
Good for you, naturally
Burt's Bees uses beeswax in many of our creams, lotions and lip balms.
Peppermint oil helps heal cracked lips, and this is the reason why this oil is an active ingredient in chapsticks and lip glosses. The oil has a soothing effect (because of menthol that's present in it), and so can be used on wind-chapped or sun-burnt lip as it will give a cooling and refreshing effect on the skin.
So what's exactly causes that tingling sensation in Burt's Bees wax? Dr. Brett Cauthen at Today Clinic looked over the ingredients and offered us a quick explanation. "It's the peppermint oil that's causing the burning sensation, and I suppose some people think that is kind of funny," says Dr.