Your lips will look soft, smooth, and healthy after using this homemade lip scrub to remove flaky, dry skin. using this simple method, you may make your own homemade lip scrub using basic, all-natural ingredients.

Nothing is worse than having dry, flaky lips. Your lips may feel dry and chapped during colder weather, or even during the summer when you don’t drink enough water. Although I regularly apply this homemade lip balm to my lips, sometimes it’s necessary to exfoliate the lips’ damaged skin.

Although there are lots of lip exfoliants you can buy online, is it really worth that price? Why would you pay $10 to $50 for a product when you could make it yourself for under a dollar? I have a quick and simple homemade sugar lip scrub recipe that uses things you probably already have in your kitchen.

What Is A Lip Scrub

A mechanical exfoliator, or one that physically eliminates dead skin cells, is what lip scrubs are. Lips that have been properly exfoliated can more easily absorb protective and hydrating products like lip balm.

An exfoliator and a nourishing agent are the two main ingredients that make up a lip scrub. The emollient or nourishing component gives your exfoliant a hydrating basis that makes it simpler to apply to your lips. These two work together to moisturize and hydrate your lips.

How To Exfoliate Your Lips

-Before you begin, make sure your lips are makeup-free.

-To remove dead skin, gently exfoliate your homemade lip scrub.

-To help keep the air around you wet, use a humidifier, this will help prevent tearing your lips open and causing them to bleed.

-If you exfoliate in the morning, wear an SPF lip balm; if you’re getting ready for bed, use a hydrating lip balm.

Tips For Exfoliating Your Lips

–Be Gentle: Don’t exfoliate lips too hard! When applying your sugar scrub, rub it into your skin in a gentle slow motion to avoid tearing your skin open.

-Don’t Overdo It: Only exfoliate your lips once or twice a week; this will remove enough dry skin to keep your lips soft and supple, until your next exfoliation. And make sure to avoid exfoliating when your lips are feeling extra sensitive.

-SPF: Apply lip balm with an SPF ingredient before going outside to protect your lips from the sun’s harmful rays.

-Always Moisturize: After exfoliating, choose a creamy lip balm to moisturize your lips. The Shea Butter and natural oils in NIVEA Original Care Lip Balm will help keep your lips moisturized for up to 24 hours!

-Be Patient: You should wait at least an hour after exfoliating your lips to apply any makeup to it.

Should You Exfoliate Your Lips

You should be exfoliating your lips! There are numerous easy ways to make a lip scrub at home, so you don’t need to do anything elaborate to exfoliate. But first, let’s take a closer look at how exfoliating might benefit you before we share our homemade lip scrub recipe.

Benefits Of Lip Exfoliation

Lip care is not just important for looking good. You can better maintain soft, supple, and healthy-looking lips by exfoliating your lips once or twice a week. Other advantages of lip scrubs include but are not limited to:

-Getting rid of dry skin prevents chapped and dry lips.

-Exfoliating your lips can stop them from becoming dehydrated, which can result in swelling, bleeding, or dryness.

-To soften and smooth out your lips.

-To prevent discomfort by maintaining the moisture of your lips.

-Minimizes the appearance of discoloration by balancing your lip tone.

-To improve the appearance and durability of your lipstick.

Homemade Lip Scrub Recipes

You can attempt a variety of straightforward, all-natural DIY lip exfoliant solutions. Currently, you probably have an exfoliating ingredient in your home. Try making your own DIY exfoliating scrub:

1. Basic Homemade Lip Scrub

Although I prefer sugar, if your lips are particularly delicate you should use baking soda.

Ingredients For DIY Lip Scrub

–A small container

–Coconut oil

–Sugar (or baking soda)

-Your choice of essential oil (optional)

Directions For Homemade Lip Scrub

-In a small saucepan, liquefy the coconut oil and turn off the heat.

-Add one or two drops of essential oil, if using, to the mixture of coconut oil and white sugar (brown sugar may also be used).

-In this homemade lip scrub, I used lavender oil, but geranium and vanilla are also wonderful options!

-Place a lid on the glass jar or container after scooping the scrub inside.

-Scoop some sugar scrub out of the bottle, then brush your lips with it lightly. To exfoliate dead skin cells, gently rub it in a circular manner onto your lips. After washing off with warm water, apply lip balm, lipstick, or homemade lip gloss. Use this scrub 1-2 times per week, or whenever you have dry lips, as part of your weekly skincare routine.

2. Honey Sugar Lip Scrub

Another really easy one to make, trust me, this will leave your lips feeling ultra soft and moisturized.

Ingredients For Honey Sugar Lip Scrub

-1 Tsp of honey

-2 Tsp of sugar

-Lavender essential oil.

Directions For Making Honey Sugar Lip Scrub

-Combine the sugar and honey together.

-Add a few drops of lavender essential oil to this mixture.

-Massage the mixture into your lips, then wait around ten minutes.

-With the aid of a wet face cloth, remove the honey sugar lip scrub.

(An efficient natural exfoliator is sugar. It transforms into an excellent moisturizing lip scrub when combined with honey. Simply make the basic sugar lip scrub if you don’t have honey.)

3. Coconut And Honey Lip Scrub

Ingredients For Coconut And Honey Lip Scrub

-1 Tbs coconut oil

-1 Tbs organic honey

-2 Tbs sugar

-1/2 Tbs lukewarm water

Directions For Coconut, Honey Lip Scrub

-Mix the honey and coconut oil together first.

-To this mixture, add the sugar and the heated water.

-After rubbing the mixture on your lips for two to three minutes in a circular motion, rinse with lukewarm water.

4. Chocolate Lip Scrub

Ingredients For Chocolate Lip Scrub

-1 Tbs cocoa powder

-2 Tbs brown sugar

-1 Tsp vanilla extract

-1Tsp honey

-2 Tsp coconut oil

Directions For Chocolate Lip Scrub

-Mix the cocoa powder, brown sugar, vanilla extract, honey, and melted coconut oil together.

-Apply a small amount of the scrub to your lips and rub it in gentle circular motions.

-Allow the mask to sit on your lips for a couple of minutes to really get its full benefits.

-Wipe off with a soft wet cloth or wash with lukewarm water.

5. Coffee And Honey Lip Scrub

Ingredients For Coffee And Honey Lip Scrub

-1 Tbs coffee grounds

-1 Tbs honey

Directions For Coffee And Honey Lip Scrub

-Combine the coffee and honey together.

-Apply a small amount of this scrub on your lips and massage for about a minute in a circular motion.

-Continue using it as a mask for one more minute to reap its full benefits.

-Wash off with warm water for lips that are immediately moisturized.

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Why Use Coconut Oil In Your DIY Lip Scrub

There is nothing else like organic coconut oil for your skin! Coconut oil is rich in fatty acids and antioxidants that nourish the skin, it can permeate the skin more deeply than other products due to its low molecular weight and way of attaching to proteins. If necessary, you can also use shea butter, sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, or olive oil for coconut oil. When you run out of coconut oil, these oils are a great substitute.

Why Use Sugar In Your DIY Lip Scrub

For the basis of your lib scrubs, you can use white sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, or coconut sugar. While brown sugar and coconut sugar have a subtle, sweet scent, cane sugar, which is the standard in most scrubs, has almost no scent. Sugar exfoliates the skin effectively and is gentle enough for sensitive skin.

Why Use Honey In Your DIY Lip Scrub

Honey is beneficial for both dry and chapped lips. It possesses wound healing, anti-inflammatory, and anti-microbial effects. Apply honey to your lips throughout the day to add moisture, promote healing, and prevent cracking or infection in chapped lips.

Why Use Cocoa Powder In Your DIY Lip Scrub

Antioxidants found in cocoa powder help to combat the effects of aging, brighten your skin, and lessen the appearance of red spots. You can frequently find antioxidants in fruits, vegetables, tea, chocolate, and wine.

Why Use Coffee In Your DIY Lip Scrub

You can utilize this hidden weapon to maintain the youthful appearance of your skin and lips. Caffeine is a superfood that also tones the lips and aids with pigmentation reduction, is added to coffee. Coffee grinds, which are rich in antioxidants, efficiently exfoliate dry, chapped lips to provide you with flushed lips.

How To Choose Your Scent For Your DIY Lip Scrub

To give this lip scrub a revitalizing scent, add a fragrance. I use organic essential oils, but you may also use herbs, plant extracts (like vanilla extract), and scents.

Lavender oil: Lavender oil deeply nourishes your lips and is excellent for preventing sunburns on your lips.

Peppermint oil: Peppermint oil aids in promoting blood flow under the lips and producing a fuller appearance that makes your lips look larger.

Vanilla Extract: It can aid in soothing and moisturizing chapped, dry lips. Vanilla extract may be used to make lip balm that is not only delicious-smelling but also good for your lips.

How To Store Your DIY Lip Scrub

Making homemade lip scrubs in small batches is always a good idea. They’ll last you for approximately a week and stay fresh. Use an old, dry, clean lip balm or eyeshadow container to store your scrub, or buy containers on Amazon. To avoid bacteria, sterilizing the container by soaking it in hot water for a while is advised, and storing it in the fridge.

All of these homemade lip scrub recipes are simple to make and may keep your lips soft, smooth, and moisturized without irritating them.

Natural lip hydrators include coconut, honey, and vanilla, while sugar acts as a scrub. However, be careful not to over-scrub your lips because this could harm them.

Also, be sure to eat well and drink plenty of water. The majority of your skin care problems can be resolved with a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, feel free to select one of the homemade lip scrubs on the list; we are confident that your lips will adore the recipes.

This easy-to-make DIY only requires a little mixing, some gentle spritzing, and a short period of molding, and by the end, you’ll have dozens of bubbling bath bombs in a variety of shapes and colors, which will smell and soften bath water as they bubble.

No matter who is on your list, they make wonderful presents. Play around with colors and scents; for instance, combine yellow and red to create orange, or try mixing lemon and lavender.

Bath bombs have become a hugely popular product to brighten at-home self-care. They make bath time fun for kids and relaxing for adults. This DIY bath bomb recipe allows you to enjoy the luxury bath at home without the expensive price tag.

Using common, budget-friendly ingredients, I’ll show you how to make these DIY Bath Bombs at home.

What You’ll Need

-Baking soda (aluminum free is best)

-Cornstarch

-Citric acid

-Spritzer bottles

-Food coloring or you can use Mica powder which is a natural soap colorant that is safe for use in bath bombs.

-Essential oils

-Baking molds

-Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate)

-Coconut oil or Argon oil

How To Make Bath Bomb

Step 1

Sift 1 3/4 cup baking soda, 1 cup citric acid, 1 cup of Epsom salt, and 2 cups cornstarch to make a powdered mixture and run it through a sieve to remove chunks. To make different tints, fill small spritzer bottles with water and add about 6 drops of food coloring to each.

Or if you’re using mica powder you’ll mix that in with the dry ingredients.

Step 2

Pour 1 cup of powdered mixture into a glass bowl. Then lightly spritz, stirring after each spritz, until the powder is your desired color. Add water slowly, so the mixture does not fizz. If mixing two tints, alternate colors as you spritz. You will do this with only water and no food coloring if you’re using mica powder.

Check the consistency of the powder with your fingers; when it can be tightly packed or shaped, stop spritzing—this may take a little while.

Step 3

Select an essential oil. Add 5 drops if it’s one of the stronger scents—like peppermint or lavender—6 if it’s a weaker one—like lemon or grapefruit. You can choose different scents based on what you need for that day. Also, take this time to add about 10 drops of coconut or argon oil to the mixture

Mix it well before firmly packing the mixture into small baking molds. I like to use 1/4 cup for each fizzy, which is good for one bath. Allow the mixture to set for two hours, then pop out carefully. Repeat with different tints and essential oils for the remaining powder.

Step 4

Store in an airtight container for up to six months. You can also wrap them in plastic wrap. If you want to get really fancy, you can use shrink-wrap sleeves to wrap your bath bombs. Heat them with a blow dryer or heat gun to shrink the wrap around your homemade bath bombs.

When you’re ready to use the bath bomb, simply drop it in your bath water and let it fizz and dissolve. It should take about 30 seconds for it to dissolve completely.

This DIY whipped body butter recipe is perfect for the winter months if you have really dry skin.

If you’re anything like me, your skin gets super dry in the cold, and well I love in a really cold area. In the winter, when the air is so dry and I’m taking hot showers, my skin gets so dry.

This body butter goes on smooth and is so nourishing for the skin.

Anything that you put on your skin can absorb right into your body. That is why I love making my own homemade products.

All the ingredients are pure enough to cook with and I know exactly what goes into it.

For this recipe, you only need a few basic ingredients: shea butter, cocoa butter, and coconut oil. I also add essential oils for scent and the amazing health properties they have.

This body butter recipe is so light and fluffy it almost feels like a cloud!

In this post, you’ll learn how to create homemade body butter from natural ingredients!

What Is Body Butter?

You’re in for a surprise if you’ve never used body butter!

It is similar to butter for your skin, well it’s exactly butter for your skin. Anyone can easily make their own body butter at home.

It’s so easy; all you have to do is combine your favorite oils by melting and whipping them together and you’ll have a lovely body butter.

Although I adore my standard whipped coconut oil moisturizer, it dissolves at room temperature and can sometimes be a little too greasy.

You can choose to experiment with some of your favorite plant-based butters because we all need a decent moisturizer that isn’t overly oily and creates a lovely body butter recipe.

This homemade body butter has a beautiful scent and sensation.

Additionally, it is incredibly nourishing and will make your skin feel incredibly smooth.

You can leave it as it is or add essential oils to create a great-smelling body butter for yourself or as a gift. Plus, it’s really great if you have sensitive skin.

How To Make Whipped Body Butter

Ingredients for Whipped Body Butter:

• 1/3 Cup coconut oil: There is nothing else like organic coconut oil for your skin! Coconut oil can penetrate the skin more thoroughly than other products due to its low molecular weight and way of attaching to proteins. This is the one I use.

• 1/3 Cup shea butter: For dry skin, shea butter is a powerful emollient. It’s the ideal ingredient to include in your body care recipes because of its emollient qualities, particularly in body butter. This is the one I use.

• 1/3 Cup cocoa butter wafers: Lotions, creams, and body butter will gain a viscous and creamy consistency from cocoa butter, which softens at body temperature. Vitamin E, another natural antioxidant, as well as a number of other vitamins and minerals, are also present in cocoa butter. These are the ones I use.

• 1/3 Cup jojoba oil: Low comedogenic jojoba oil is a carrier oil that moisturizes and calms irritated skin. Sweet almond oil, which contains fatty acids and vitamins A and E and penetrates the skin rapidly, is a suitable alternative to jojoba oil if it is not available. This is the one I use.

• 2 Teaspoon arrowroot powder: Due to its oil basis, this moisturizer may feel a little greasy on some skin types. Cornstarch or arrowroot powder can be added to reduce the greasy sensation on your skin. In the absence of arrowroot flour, corn starch or tapioca starch are suitable alternatives. This is the one I use.

• Essential oils (optional): These plant-based oils are better than synthetic fragrances because they are all-natural. Don’t go overboard, though; just a few droplets will do to flavor homemade body butter.

Also read: 21 Soothing DIY Bath Salt Recipes With Essential Oils For Every Mood

Why These Ingredients:

• Coconut oil – is moisturizing, can help promote wound healing, and has antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties.
• Jojoba oil – is very moisturizing, and promotes wound healing while also having anti-inflammatory properties. Jojoba oil can also have anti-aging properties.
• Cocoa butter – can help keep in moisture by giving skin a protective barrier.
• Shea butter – is rich in antioxidants, highly moisturizing, and promotes skin healing.
• Essential oils. – because they smell nice and they have many great properties.

Directions for Making Your Whipped Body Butter:

• Melt the coconut oil, cocoa butter, and shea butter in a double boiler or saucepan over low heat to create your body butter. In the absence of a double boiler, a sizable glass measuring cup will do.

• Then turn off the heat and stir in the jojoba oil and essential oils, if using, to the warmed cocoa butter and oils. To add the essential oils, just mix thoroughly.

• Place the mixture in the refrigerator after pouring it into a medium glass bowl. About two hours of cooling time is required. As an alternative, you could chill the oils in the fridge.

• When the mixture is completely solid, take the dish out of the refrigerator, put it in your stand mixer, and whip the body butter with it (a hand mixer also works if that’s what you have). When the body butter is light and airy, add the arrowroot flour and beat again.

• Finally, scoop the body butter into containers and store it in a cool, dry place.

Tips For Making DIY Body Butter

• This makes a really great gift for friends and family.
• You can double or triple this recipe.
• Be careful using citrus oils, like lemon or orange, since they can make your skin sensitive to the sun. If you do use them, don’t go out in the sun for awhile. Or, simply use this body butter at night.

How To Store Homemade Whipped Body Butter

The oils and butter in this dish could melt if kept in a warm environment because they are natural and oily in nature.

This body butter should therefore be stored in a cold, dry environment. Then, if the oils begin to melt by accident, you can refrigerate the butter and re-whip it.

If stored in an air-tight jar in a cool dark place, this body butter will keep for up to 6 months. If you would like to keep it for longer, you could add preservatives to it.

Although I have not directly added a preservative to this whipped body butter, I would choose Geogard ECT (Preservative ECO, Plantaserv M). In the mixture, this preservative should make up 0.6% to 1%.

I recommend opting for natural preservatives like vitamin E oil or rosemary extract if you intend to store the body butter for an extended period.

These natural preservatives can help prolong the shelf life of your homemade product without introducing harsh chemicals.

Another option to consider for extending the shelf life is to store the body butter in smaller containers.

This reduces the exposure to air and contaminants each time you open a jar, helping to maintain the freshness of the product for a longer duration.

Additionally, it’s essential to keep your body butter away from direct sunlight and high temperatures, as these can accelerate the breakdown of the natural ingredients and cause the product to spoil more quickly.

For those who enjoy experimenting with different scents and textures, you can customize this recipe further by incorporating different essential oils or botanical extracts.

Lavender, chamomile, or rosemary essential oils are popular choices for their soothing properties, while citrus oils like lemon or orange can lend a refreshing scent.

You could also try adding a tablespoon of aloe vera gel to the mixture for added hydration and soothing benefits, especially beneficial for sun-exposed or irritated skin.

Furthermore, if you prefer a firmer body butter, you can adjust the ratio of oils and butters in the recipe.

Increasing the amount of cocoa butter or shea butter will result in a firmer consistency, while adding more liquid oils will make the body butter softer and more spreadable.

Experimenting with different combinations of oils and butters can lead to unique textures and scents that cater to your specific skincare needs and preferences.

Have fun exploring and creating your signature homemade body butter recipe!

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Making your own bath salt blends at home is surprisingly simple.

There is nothing better than a hot bath after a long, stressful day, except maybe a hot bath enhanced with aromatic bath salts, of course.

Making your own bespoke bath salt blends to meet your requirements (such as easing tight muscles, easing the day’s stress, or softening skin) and then spicing them up with your favorite essential oils is surprisingly simple.

You can even use food coloring to give your salt mixture a lovely, calming hue as a final touch.

What You Need

– A container to store the bath salts in.

– Coarse sea salt.

– Epsom salt (Epsom salt is also known as magnesium sulfate. It’s a chemical compound made up of magnesium, sulfur, and oxygen, this is different from the coarse sea salt).

– Baking Soda.

– Essential oils of your choice (essential oils have different benefits that you can add to your bath salts, so choose the essential oils based on your specific needs).

– Food coloring to make the bath salts look extra fancy and professionally made.

How To Make The Bath Salt

Step 1

Mix 6 parts coarse sea salt, 3 parts Epsom salts (to relieve sore muscles, promotes sleep, and reduce inflammation and stress), and 1 part baking soda (for cleansing and detoxifying properties that may help to purify your body and boost immunity as well as soothe skin irritation) in a big bowl.

Step 2

Add a few drops of essential oils (Sea salts and essential oils are a great combination. The relaxing properties of hot water complement the effects of well-chosen salts and essential oils) and combine.

Step 3

Add food coloring drops until you get the desired color.

Now that you’ve made your bath salt, scoop it into your previously prepared container and store them away to use for your next hot bath.

Essential Oil Blends For Your Bath Salts

Try these essential oil blends in your DIY bath salts for the following benefits:

Relaxing Blend

2 Parts Lavender essential oil for every 1 part Vetiver essential oil.

Mood-Boosting Blend

2 Parts Lavender essential oil for every 1 part Lemon essential oil.

Essential Oil Blend For Soft Skin

Equal parts Lavender essential oil, Frankincense essential oil, and Palmarosa essential oil.

Anti-inflammatory Blend

2 Parts Lavender essential oil for every 1 part Rosemary essential oil.

Muscle Relaxer Blend

2 Parts Peppermint essential oil for every 1 part Rosemary essential oil.

This regular bar of soap can be transformed into an exfoliating soap bar with a wonderful scent by just adding honey and oatmeal and is perfect for sensitive and dry skin.

This natural soap made from organic rolled oats and honey will leave your skin feeling incredibly smooth and looking brilliant.

Oatmeal And Honey Soap Recipe

Oatmeal has many benefits that’s why it’s utilized in oatmeal milk baths and can treat a variety of skin irritations because it has so many wonderful skin-friendly properties.

You can make use of instant oats, colloidal oatmeal, or oatmeal powder. Oatmeal can be turned into powder by mixing it quickly in a blender.

We’ll be using powdered oatmeal for this recipe, which you can create by blending plain rolled oats.

What You Need

– 2 Pounds oatmeal melt and pour soap base.

– 1 Cup organic rolled oats that you’ve blended into a fine powder.

– 2 Tablespoons of Raw honey.

– Soap mold.

– Essential oil of your choice (I like to use either vanilla, lemon, or lavender essential oils).

How To Make Your Honey Oatmeal Soap

– Cut the oatmeal melt and pour soap base into small chunks and place them into a double boiler.

– Melt over medium heat. Stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon. 

– Remove from the heat when it’s fully melted.

– Add in the oatmeal powder, essential oil, and raw honey. Stir to mix.

– Pour into soap molds.

– Allow it to harden then remove it from the molds.

Now that you’re done, they are ready to use for your next self-care day whenever you take your next shower or bath.

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Make various lip balms by following these simple directions.

Divide the mixture and fragrance and color the batches separately if you want to make more than one type of lip balm at once. I prefer to use essential oils that smell edible for lip balms, such as citrus or vanilla.

Basil, mint, orange, or lemon essential oils might help to soften the powerful scent of lavender essential oil.

What You Need

– Lip balm tubes or lip balm tins

– Beeswax pellets

– Shea butter

– Cocoa butter

– Coconut oil

– Jojoba oil

– Vitamin E oil

– Essential oils of your choice

How To Make Your Lip Balm

1. Measure 1 teaspoon beeswax, 2 teaspoons shea butter, and 1 teaspoon cocoa butter and put in the top of a double boiler.

2. Melt the butters and waxes over low heat in your double boiler until completely combined.

3. Add 1 teaspoon each of coconut oil and jojoba oil and stir until combined.

4. Remove the bowl from the heat and add about 5 drops of Vitamin E oil and 10 drops of the essential oils of your choice.

5. Pour into your storage containers.

6. Allow to cool completely (for at least 30 minutes).