DIY lip scrub provides the nourishment needed to keep your lips soft and smooth, gently exfoliating them and preventing chapped lips.
I make this easy DIY lip scrub for winter to protect and soften them in preparation for the dry winter days ahead. While it may seem that scrubbing your lips would be too harsh, using the combination of granulated sugar and herb-infused oil provides a gentle exfoliant that is healthy for your lips, softening them and adding extra moisturizing benefits.
Use homemade lip scrub once a week, followed by a nourishing herb-infused lip balm. You’ll love how soft and moisturized your lips will feel with this simple routine. This DIY Lip Scrub makes a luxurious gift. Add a few DIY tinted lip balms or lip gloss for a thoughtful BFF gift basket or spa gift basket, to ensure that your gift is appreciated.
Lip Scrub
This DIY lip scrub is a variation on the very easy to make sugar scrub or salt scrub recipes. These scrubs can be pricey in the store but are super easy to make at home in minutes. They use either sugar or salt as an exfoliant plus a liquid vegetable oil that leaves skin silky and moisturized. I prefer to use herb-infused oils for these DIY recipes to add an additional layer of skin-soothing benefits. Calendula infused oil, St. Johns wort infused oil, or lavender-infused oil would be great choices in this recipe.
Essential oils are often added for their therapeutic benefits and their gentle mood-lifting benefits. In the case of a lip scrub, adding a small amount of peppermint or spearmint essential oil can also be cooling and increase blood flow to the lips, giving them a fuller appearance. It’s important, in a lip scrub, to use essential oil with a pleasant flavor. If using cinnamon or peppermint essential oil in this recipe
Before you begin – Tips for organizing your workspace
When batch creating sugar lip scrub for gift giving it can be helpful to have things arranged ahead of time. Your session will go faster, and be more enjoyable if you have all the ingredients and supplies ready to go before you start.
- Assemble your ingredients and your recipe before you begin
- Assemble your containers so that they are clean and ready
- Create your labels
- Place your recipe and a notebook, with a pen for notes near your work area (to keep track of any recipe changes)
- If your project will be messy put down a layer of newspaper to catch spills
- Make the DIY Project
- Package, label, and date
- Create any necessary notes with recipe modifications in your notebook
- Clean up
Gift packaging for a homemade lip scrub
Always start with packaging that is clean and sanitized. You can reuse or repurpose containers, but make sure that they are thoroughly cleaned with soap and hot water, then allowed to completely dry before adding any homemade product to the container.
Make sure that you choose a container that is appropriately sized for the product. So, if you have 4 ounces of scrub, don’t package it in an 8-ounce tin. The additional space will make the gift seem small.
Use a package that is appropriate for the product. Since homemade lip scrub will be scooped out of the container, you’ll need to use packaging that will allow easy removal for all size hands.
Choose glass if possible.
- glass is nonreactive.
- glass can be sanitized, recycled, reused.
- glass is decorative.
- there are many sizes and colors available, even small Mason jars can be used with appropriate lids.
- herbal remedies such as tinctures, vinegar, syrup, oxymels, and infused oils are best when packaged in colored bottles to protect the contents from light.
- many packaging options are available on Amazon, Brambleberry, Mountain Rose, and SKS bottles for products like lip balms, lipsticks, salves. and balms.
Other packaging ideas suitable for lip scrubs include steel tins, aluminum tins, upcycled mint tins, and PET jars with a wide enough mouth to allow fingers to scoop.
Using mica pigment as a colorant
Mineral pigments are used as a safe color additive for makeup and skincare applications where the color will enhance the product. Generally, mineral colors offer a softer hue than traditional makeup colors that are based on toxic coal tar dyes. Iron oxide pigments and ultramarine pigments offer a matt finish while mica pigments give a little shimmer to DIY makeup.
Cosmetic grade iron oxides are nontoxic and are used to tint blushes, eye shadows, foundations, and other cosmetic formulations. Iron oxides can be blended with pearlescent mica powders for shine. Mica colorants are silicate minerals that provide shimmer when ground into a very fine powder. They are easy to use in eye shadows, blushers, lip colors, and other cosmetics. Mica powders are tinted with oxides and other pigments to provide a wide range of colors. However, not all mineral pigments and mica powders are safe to use in lip or eye products. Always use lip safe micas and oxides for lip products that you make at home.
I get my lip safe colorants from Brambleberry here. (no affiliation). I used Rose Pearl Mica in this lip scrub.
Homemade Lip Scrub Master Recipe
Use this recipe if you plan to make this in a large batch for selling at craft fairs or if you are making party favors. Use the small-batch recipe below if you plan to make just a few for gift giving or for personal use. This recipe has a short shelf life, so only make it in larger batches if you plan to give away or sell a lot of these. Make the small-batch recipe for personal use or to create just a couple for gifts.
Time 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- 2 parts of sugar (organic is best)
- 1 part herb-infused oil (try olive, sunflower, sweet almond, or avocado)
- 2 % essential oil (use the oil measure to determine the 2% ratio)
Directions:
- Mix all the ingredients into a small glass bowl.
- Transfer the sugar scrub into a jar.
- Add instructions for use, if gift-giving.
- Label the jar with the date.
Easy DIY Lip Scrub for Softer Skin
Description
The Winter wind can be harsh on your lips, causing them to chap and crack. DIY lip scrub provides the nourishment needed to keep your lips soft and smooth.
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoon sugar (organic is best)
- 1 tablespoon herb-infused olive oil
- 5 drops sweet orange essential oil
- 1/4 teaspoon mica pigment (lip safe)
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients in a glass bowl and stir until well blended.
- Spoon into ½ ounce lip gloss jars or glass containers.
- Label with directions for use.
Notes
The shelf life of these kinds of products is short, as they tend to harden in the jars after a few months. But they only take 5 minutes to make, so make them fresh as you need them.
Making DIY Lip Scrub with Sugar
Yield 3 1/2 oz tins
- 4 tablespoon sugar (organic is best)
- 1 tablespoon herb-infused olive oil
- 5 drops sweet orange essential oil
- 1/4 teaspoon mica pigment (lip safe)
Directions:
- Mix all the ingredients in a glass bowl and stir until well blended.
- Spoon into ½ ounce lip gloss jars or glass containers.
- Label with directions for use.
The shelf life of these kinds of products is short, as they tend to harden in the jars after a few months.
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