DIY Crafts: Make Your Own Lip Balm With These 35 Quick & Easy Recipes! (2nd Edition) Paperback – May 11, 2015

My favorite lib balm has gotten quite expensive and I was curious to see if I can experiment with making my own. This book contains 35 different recipes. A number of recipes use coconut oil, however only one of the recipes (#27) contains a warning that the lip balm should be kept in a cool place as the key ingredient, coconut oil, liquefies pretty fast. Seems like this warning should be in every recipe with the coconut oil as it is a pretty major minus for a lip balm, I never store my lip balm in a cold place and doing so would be highly inconvenient.On the positive side I thought the book had clear instructions and a good variety of options.On the negative side the book has ads for the authors other undertakings through out the book with "click here" links. Note that having references in the Appendix would not have bothered me, it is only having the ads peppered through out the book that I find unpleasant.Ali Julia review

Lip Licking Good! You can get rid of dry and cracking lips. You can say goodbye to flaking and the discomfort of bleeding lips without the expense of over the counter lib balm purchases. This information packed book has three dozen formulas for making your own lip balm. You can know exactly what is contained in the lip treatments. You can make sure your lip preparation is organic and allergy free for the kids lip problems.The process is simple and you have 36 different choices of what flavor to make at home.Just to give you an idea of the varied lip balm formulas which include: Coco-Mint, Coconut Tea Tree Oil, Honey Peppermint and my favorite Honey and Sweet Orange.A great solution for your lip comfort and a wonderful thoughtful gift for others. In these tight times this is a easy-to-make product you can sell to friends and sell at flea markets.A great book for your family library.Recommended!

Just starting making lip balms, and needed a little guidance on how to formulate them. Very helpful in that regard, and gave me some good ideas on combining different oils, butters, beeswax etc. However, the recipes do not say what the yield of each recipe is, so you don't know how many lip balms you're making. Most of the ingredients are pretty natural, but when I came upon a recipe that called for petroleum jelly, I was shocked. Luckily it's just that one recipe I think. Not interested in using lanolin either (a couple recipes). Still the best book on lip balms I could find on Amazon.

Well, just from reviewing this book, I am already disappointed without even attempting to make anything yet. If you are going to write a how-to project book on something, it needs more than just a bunch of recipes. Every recipe in this book starts with some variation of "get your containers ready". Okay. How? What containers? Why is there not an introduction to this book that includes important information like, which types of containers are usable (pot vs tube vs something else) and where to buy such containers? Every recipe requires "oils". Why are these not specific to which type of oils (Carrier vs Essential)? Essential oils can be dangerous if not handled properly. There should be some background on types of oils, their differences and safe handling practices. There are 14 recipes that require coconut oil, but only on one recipe is there a notation that the "lip balm should be kept cool, lest it run because coconut oil liquefies pretty fast". Why was this not an important fact to mention in the first recipe instead of halfway through the book? Regardless of the disclaimer in the back, this book reflects someone who poorly threw together some ideas to make a quick buck, rather than an avid crafter who wants to teach and share their knowledge properly.

Lip Balm: Make Your Own Lip Balm With These 35 Quick & Easy Recipes! by Kitty MooreBook starts out with a table of contents and an introduction.Each recipe includes a color photo, title and materials needed. along with directions.Not sure where you get pre made containers but the recipe look easy enough if you can also locate the ingredients.Thought they'd be using more household, on hand products.Ads for DIY crafts are included throughout the book.Other works by the author are highlighted in the book.

Ok should have gotten digital copy once read still have laying around

Super. So far I have tried one recipe Olive Honey lip balm. Instead of Honey I used Vitamin E oil. Fantastic. Store bought lip balms did not work on my daughter. I have tried other diy lip balms posted on internet. Did not work.This recipe cured my daughters super chapped lips. Many thanks for the recipes.I suggest adding tiny amount of Vitamin E oil if the lip balm still does not feel very moisturizing.I also like Keepie Factory 50 Empty Lip Balm Containers sold here on amazon. I good combination with this kindle recipe book.

Can't recommend this book enough. It makes lip balm completely accessible, and Moore's tone is excited without being fake or unrelatable. These recipes are all accompanied by photos of them each, with lots of ideas for containers too! Definitely check it out if you'd like to make your own balms but don't know where to start.

This book is great, a really informative easy read. I've made Lip Balms for a long time now and i love to read any new books on the subject and this book is a great especially if you have never made lip balms before as it very easy to follow the recipes and is very precise. It's a helpful guide to making lip balms and is easy to understand. Thankyou Kitty Moore for sharing your knowledge with us. I would definitely recommend it. 5 Stars

The lip balm recipes are very basic, and I personally would use very few of these. Badly formatted and no photos, but random adverts in the middled of the book

I love the book

Plein de belles idées de recettes que je vais essayer! Juste dommage que les propriétés des ingrédients ne soient pas écrites pour chaque recettes. Ça aurait été un must, mais connaissant les déjà un peu les propriétés de plusieurs des ingrédients utilisés je peux me faire une idée de la "valeur" de chaque recette.

Really like the recipes in this book! Combinations are inventive and there are a lot of them, using many different ingredients. You could easily mix and match once you pick a good base recipe