Amp up your natural beauty routine with this gorgeous hibiscus lip balm. This DIY tinted lip balm recipe uses the skin friendly ingredients of raw honey and grass fed tallow.
Tinted lip balm recipe with honey and tallow
Makeup? What’s that? I have always been rather low maintenance. But in another life (before I had kids) I did at least put on mascara and a tinted lip balm pretty much every day. Those two items have always been my bare minimum makeup essentials.
These days, I definitely have more no makeup days than days with cosmetics. Small children just make things so much busier!
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That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy getting glammed up once in a while, though! Whenever I do get the chance to put on some makeup, I do try to have the same, strict standards that I have for the rest of my skincare products. This means no toxic chemicals, period.
I don’t ever wear any foundation, blush, or anything at all on my face. After overcoming my horrible cystic acne for good, I like to enjoy my clear skin as is. And I just don’t like how extra products feel on my skin. I pretty much stick to eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara, and tinted lip balm. Mascara, eyeliner, and eyeshadow aren’t things I’ve been able to DIY so far, but I do have a natural makeup brand that I love. Check out my 100% Pure makeup review here.
For a long time I used a tinted lip balm with a bee logo from the local drugstore. But then I thought it would be fun to make it myself! That way I could have something that was much higher quality than I had been buying.
I like to include ingredients that not only look nice, but are also beneficial. This tinted lip balm recipe includes some things you probably won’t see very often if you look up DIY lip balms online. I used to make a purely plant based lip balm. This one is so much better! It goes on with a lovely matte finish, and isn’t sticky at all. Yay!
Raw honey adds a beautiful texture, is very beneficial to skin, and adds a nice flavor. Grass fed tallow is amazing for moisturizing, protecting, and healing skin, and also provides a perfect gliding texture without being sticky. Beeswax adds just little more stiffness for the best consistency.
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Essential oils are so fun to add to DIY skincare and beauty products! My favorite one to add to this tinted lip balm recipe is cinnamon. It smells great, and actually helps to naturally make lips fuller. Bonus!
Other essential oils that I like for lip balms are peppermint, citrus oils, and vanilla. If you use a citrus oil, go with a steam distilled one to avoid photo toxicity.
Now let’s talk about color. You can definitely use a lot of different pigments to make tinted lip balm, and I decided to go with this mica powder. I’m really happy with it! It gives the perfect hibiscus color, which is exactly what I was looking for.
The technique
If you’ve been on my blog before, you might remember that I also have a plain, non tinted tallow honey lip balm as well. This is actually that very same recipe, with tint added.
This tinted lip balm recipe uses the same technique of getting the honey to stay suspended so it won’t separate out. Basically, once the tallow and beeswax mixture are hot, melted, and combined, you add the honey and mix for a while. Once the mixture begins to cool a bit (but before the beeswax starts to harden), the honey will stay suspended and won’t separate. This is the time to add the essential oils and tint.
One other thing to know is that this tinted lip balm recipe calls for tallow balm, not pure tallow. This just means that the tallow has a very small amount of olive oil (or another skin friendly, liquid oil) added to make it a little softer. If you don’t already have tallow on hand, I show how to render it here, and how to make tallow balm here.
Tinted Lip Balm RECIPE DIRECTIONS
Ingredients:
- 5 TBSP melted tallow balm
- 1 tsp beeswax
- 2 TBSP honey
- 15 drops strong essential oil (cinnamon, peppermint) or 25 drops mild essential oil (citrus)
- 1 1/2 tsp mica powder
Instructions:
1. Melt tallow balm until it is liquid.
2. Measure melted tallow balm and beeswax into a glass, heat safe pitcher.
3. Create a double boiler by putting the glass pitcher on a cloth inside a pan of water.
4. Heat water to a gentle simmer.
5. Once tallow and beeswax mixture are completely melted and combined, remove from heat.
6. Stir mixture with a fork until mixture cools enough so that honey stays suspended and does not separate.
7. Add essential oils and mica powder and mix thoroughly.
8. Pour into tins and allow to harden in the freezer.
9. Remove from freezer, allow to come to room temperature, and enjoy.
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Hibiscus Tinted Lip Balm with Raw Honey & Grass Fed Tallow
Amp up your natural beauty routine with this gorgeous hibiscus lip balm. This DIY tinted lip balm recipe uses the skin friendly ingredients of raw honey and grass fed tallow.
Ingredients
- 5 tbsp tallow balm, melted
- 1 tsp beeswax
- 2 tbsp honey, raw
- 15 drops cinnamon or peppermint essential oil, 25 drops for milder essential oils, such as citrus
- 1 1/2 tsp mica powder
Instructions
- Melt tallow balm until it is liquid.
- Measure melted tallow balm and beeswax into a glass, heat safe pitcher.
- Create a double boiler by putting the glass pitcher on a cloth inside a pan of water.
- Heat water to a gentle simmer.
- Once tallow and beeswax mixture are completely melted and combined, remove from heat.
- Stir mixture with a fork until mixture cools enough so that honey stays suspended and does not separate.
- Add essential oils and mica powder and mix thoroughly.
- Pour into tins and allow to harden in the freezer.
- Remove from freezer, allow to come to room temperature, and enjoy.
I’m having very my the honey to fully dissolve! I know it wouldn’t be as ‘clean’ but what could I use to replace it? At least for flavor? Should I use an artificial sweetener? Like erythritol?
Thank you for your recipe. I have trying my own recipes for honey tallow balm with beeswax. One brand I like and trying to duplicate is Neptune Tallow Honey Balm. It has no beef scent but a nice clean smell. It’s all white in color. Can you give any tips.
Marisa
I love your recipes and really appreciate you sharing.
For the lip balm recipe, would I be able to use peppermint extract, if I don’t have the oil. The extract has alcohol in it. And if I can do I adujst the recipe ?
Kim
This looks like an awesome recipe and I’d love to try it but was wondering if you’d mind posting a conversion in grams. I prefer to weigh everything to be sure I have the correct amount. Thank you for posting such a great recipe and I have some awesome tallow balm I made with emu oil and I can’t recommend it highly enough for anything to do with skin ????
Hi! Can you link the best mica color to use here? Thanks! Love this recipe and ALL of your posts!
Another question how about swapping beeswax for calendula wax?
Hi regarding mica color, I realized that mica is natural but I’m wondering if you know a source they used natural dyes/ from food or plants instead of synthetic dyes.
Hey Marisa,
Love your recipes – I used your site to render tallow for the first time. Very grateful for you! ????
I’m wondering if this can also be used as a cheek tint? I am more of a blush girl & trying to find something super natural.
I just made this it’s lovely! My tallow is quite soft at room temp so added 1tblespoon of beeswax (grated beeswax). Used peppermint EO. Thanks ????
How do you make your tallow balm feel non greasy? Or is this just not possible? Am I’m perhaps just using too much as I am in love with it but find I’m getting greasy marks everywhere, LOL
Thanks for this! About how many lip balms can you get out of this recipe?
Yield: 5 0.5 oz. tins 🙂
Hi Marisa! I see that you use just tallow in your regular lip balm recipe but then “tallow balm” here. Why is the oil added for this recipe but not the other? Everything else in it seems pretty similar. Could I use the regular recipe and then just add the mica powder?
Why is there less beeswax in the tinted recipe?
Also, in your opinion, what is the advantage of adding honey?
Thank you for your support!
Yes, that should work! It really just depends on the consistency of the tallow. If you have very hard tallow, it usually works best to add some liquid oil first (make balm). I wanted the tinted balm to be softer. Adding honey makes it have a beautiful matte feel (not sticky) believe it or not, and has great benefits 🙂
Hi! How long does this last without spoiling?
I’ve never had it go bad, but I would say plan on around 12 months 🙂
Thank you much for sharing your wonderful recipes! I am so excited to make the lip balm. I just have one question. Is it possible to use something other than beeswax to harden the balm up?
You’re welcome! Yes, you could substitute another wax, like candelilla if you wanted to 🙂
came across this and wonder if honey will cause issues being placed in a tin? It supposedly causes a reaction with metal?
I have never heard of that before, very interesting! I haven’t personally had any trouble with that. I guess if you were concerned about it you could use a lip balm tube instead 🙂
Hello, I’m just thrilled to see all these wonderful recipes using grass fed tallow! I have all the ingredients for the tinted lip balm except for the mica- could I leave this out?
Awesome! It’s great to meet another fellow tallow fan! 😀 Yes you could, it would just be a plain lip balm without tint, but still very wonderful for lips 🙂
Thank you so much for your recipes! I want to try this one, but am wondering about the tallow balm. I purchased tallow off Amazon – I think I need to melt the tallow and add olive oil to it in order to make the tallow balm first, is that correct?
You’re welcome! Yes, that’s right, if it’s fairly stiff you’ll want to melt it and add olive oil. It’s 1/4 cup olive oil to every 1 cup tallow. If the tallow is quite soft at room temp, like butter, you could leave the olive oil out. But most likely you’ll want to use it 😊