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    Home » Natural Bath and Body Products » DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm Recipe

    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm Recipe

    Published: Jul 13, 2015 · Modified: Apr 13, 2021 by Bren

    This Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe is easy whether you’re an avid crafter or a first-time lip gloss maker! It’s a great all-natural beauty product that contains no artificial coloring or flavors… plus it’s fun and easy to make! 

    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe uses simple, all-natural ingredients including real strawberries to make a lightly tinted and flavored lip gloss. Free printable label. Must try!

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    Lip Balm Love

    I spend most of my days in a pony tail, sans makeup, chasing kids around or cleaning the house. Even without makeup a bit of lip balm makes me feel more pulled together. I love the shine it adds to lips and the boost it gives your whole face.

    Unhealthy Addiction?

    I started paying attention to the ingredients in my make-up when I began transitioning to more natural home care products .

    I was shocked to find out that many commercially produced lip balm products contain unhealthy ingredients such as parabens, artificial fragrances, artificial coloring.

    These substances can act as allergens, endocrine disruptors, or carcinogens causing developmental or reproductive toxicity, early onset puberty, and/or cellular level changes. I became convinced that sprucing up with lip balm is NOT worth breast cancer!

    All-Natural Lip Balm Recipe

    It’s easy to make ALL-NATURAL lip balm. After mastering:

    • Classic Buzzing Beeswax Lip Balm and
    • Chocolate Cupcake Lip Balm

    I wanted to make a tinted, flavored balm but was disappointed to find out that most recipes suggest adding a bit of lipstick for color. I didn’t want to use lipstick (since  lipstick can contain lots of unnecessary and dangerous substances), so I was stuck…

    …until I stumbled upon freeze dried fruit at the grocery store.

    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe uses simple, all-natural ingredients including real strawberries to make a lightly tinted and flavored lip gloss. Free printable label. Must try!

    Freeze Dried Strawberries

    Freeze dried strawberries have been dehydrated to remove the moisture but still contain all the lovely color, scent, and flavor of fresh strawberries.

    Grinding them into a powder and adding them to my basic lip balm recipe resulted in a lightly tinted balm with a light scent and flavor of strawberries… with NO artificial ingredients!

    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe uses simple, all-natural ingredients including real strawberries to make a lightly tinted and flavored lip gloss. Free printable label. Must try!

    Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm Recipe

    Ingredients 

    • 1 T. White Beeswax Pastilles Organic, $0.90
    • 1/2 T. Organic Coconut Oil, $0.47
    • 1/2 T. Sweet Almond Oil, $0.30
    • 1/8 tsp. Vitamin E Oil, $0.06
    • 1/8-1/4 cup freeze dried strawberries (Unsweetened and Unsulfured), $1.00

    Total cost: $2.73

    Directions

    1. Use a blender or food processor to grind freeze-dried strawberries into a fine powder. (Try this easy trick to use your blender with a Mason jar.)
    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe uses simple, all-natural ingredients including real strawberries to make a lightly tinted and flavored lip gloss. Free printable label. Must try!
    1. Place all ingredients in a small, heat-safe metal or glass container. I use a small Mason jar.
    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe uses simple, all-natural ingredients including real strawberries to make a lightly tinted and flavored lip gloss. Free printable label. Must try!
    1. Place the container of ingredients in a pan of slowly boiling water that comes about halfway up the side of the container. Do not to get any water into your mixture.
    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe uses simple, all-natural ingredients including real strawberries to make a lightly tinted and flavored lip gloss. Free printable label. Must try!
    1. Keep the water simmering and stir the mixture occasionally with metal spoon, wooden chopstick, or unused popsicle stick until melted.
    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe uses simple, all-natural ingredients including real strawberries to make a lightly tinted and flavored lip gloss. Free printable label. Must try!
    1. Remove the jar from the water and pour through a strainer into your final container. (I used a 1 ounce glass jar with a screw top.) Discard the solids from the strainer, this is the extra strawberry pulp and seeds.
    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe uses simple, all-natural ingredients including real strawberries to make a lightly tinted and flavored lip gloss. Free printable label. Must try!
    1. Allow the mixture to cool at room temperature, stirring once after about ten minutes. This will evenly distribute the strawberry color and flavor. (You can see the slight separation before stirring in the photo below.)
    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe uses simple, all-natural ingredients including real strawberries to make a lightly tinted and flavored lip gloss. Free printable label. Must try!
    1. Cool lip balm completely, add a free Strawberry Lip Balm label, and enjoy!
    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe uses simple, all-natural ingredients including real strawberries to make a lightly tinted and flavored lip gloss. Free printable label. Must try!

    Strawberry Lip Balm Cost

    My Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm DIY makes approximately 0.75 ounces of lip balm for $2.73!

    A similar all natural commercial product sells for $3.00 for .25 ounces.

    This DIY saves you $6.27 PLUS you know exactly what it contains and can feel good about using it!

    Free Printable Lip Balm Label

    Make your DIY lip balm extra special with a free Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm label.. They look great printed on white labels or craft paper labels.

    DIY Sweet Strawberry Lip Balm recipe uses simple, all-natural ingredients including real strawberries to make a lightly tinted and flavored lip gloss. Free printable label. Must try!
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    Comments

    1. Marsha

      December 16, 2022 at 8:56 am

      Do you measure the freeze-dried strawberries before or after grinding them?

      Reply
      • Bren

        January 05, 2023 at 7:15 pm

        After grinding.

        Reply
    2. jessica

      August 07, 2020 at 4:49 am

      please the last point that u said leave it to cool does it mean that we should put it in the freezer

      Reply
      • Bren

        December 07, 2020 at 1:48 pm

        No, just cool to room temperture.

        Reply
    3. Jordan

      October 14, 2019 at 8:45 am

      Hi, I was just wondering if you had any knowledge of other freeze-dried fruits working in this recipe.

      Reply
      • Bren

        November 15, 2019 at 11:10 am

        I’ve not tried other fruits but they should work if freeze dried.

        Reply
    4. H moore

      April 27, 2019 at 9:03 am

      Hi, where do you get your containers from?

      Reply
      • Bren

        May 01, 2019 at 12:09 pm

        I got mine on Amazon.

        Reply
    5. Sandeepa K

      January 04, 2019 at 6:01 am

      Hi,
      I bought the powder instead of the strawberries, please could you let me know as to how much powder should be used in this recipe?

      Reply
      • Bren

        January 08, 2019 at 9:04 am

        I’m not sure, you’ll have to experiment. I’ve never made the lip balm with strawberry powder.

        Reply
    6. Tina

      November 24, 2018 at 12:22 am

      Have you ever dehydrated strawberries in a machine and made this recipe with them? Do you think it would work? Are the freeze-dried strawberries you use leathery and pliable, or are they crisp and fully dry? Thx.

      Reply
      • Bren

        November 26, 2018 at 10:05 am

        Freeze dried strawberry are very brittle, fully dry, and easily turn to powder. I don’t think dehydrated strawberries would work.

        Reply
    7. Eleanor Bozzay

      July 11, 2018 at 12:12 pm

      Do you think I could store this in actual lip balm tubes? If you ever have, how many does it fill?

      Reply
      • Bren

        July 13, 2018 at 7:20 am

        Yes, you can pour it into tubes when liquid. I am not sure how many tubes it makes.

        Reply
    8. Amber

      December 20, 2017 at 12:52 am

      Hi Bren, I have celiac disease and get a rash from Vitamin E oil (it is made by refining wheat germ oil and any seeds that are left in the plant during the refining process contain gluten) so I’m wondering if there is a good substitute. I’m hoping to make a few batches and sell them for a fundraiser.

      Reply
      • Bren

        December 20, 2017 at 3:05 pm

        You can try leaving out the Vitamin E and see how you like the lip balm. I’m not sure there is any good substitute.

        Reply
    9. Zuzanna

      November 20, 2017 at 4:31 pm

      I’ve question. How long you can used it? Im thinking about this fresh fruits and about that can rotting.

      Reply
      • Bren

        November 21, 2017 at 6:21 pm

        I’ve had a tin for almost 2 years that still smells fresh!

        Reply
      • Lara

        December 17, 2017 at 4:40 pm

        This isn’t Fresh fruit… Freeze dried fruits can be stored for many many years. This is how “prepper” food is preserved.

        Reply
    10. Tiffany

      November 01, 2017 at 11:12 pm

      You don’t say how long to cook this mixture. I have been trying for quite a while, and cannot get the berries to fully mix, the powder just floats around, and the melted beeswax and coconut oil are not staining. What am I doing wrong??

      Reply
      • Bren

        November 02, 2017 at 8:36 am

        It’s in step 4, Tiffany. You want to just melt the mixtures. The powdered berries can them be stirred into the melted mix. Are you using freeze dried berries?

        Reply
        • Tiffany

          November 02, 2017 at 10:50 am

          Yes, I am using freeze dried strawberries that were just ground prior to making the batch. I tried heating it just long enough to melt. When that didn’t work, I tried another batch where I tried cooking the mixture longer, but nothing seems to be working. Is it refined or unrefined coconut oil?

          Reply
    11. Greg

      August 01, 2017 at 1:58 pm

      Hi Bren

      I’d love to try the strawberry lip balm recipe. Just a question is there a difference between freeze dry berries and normal frozen berries ? I’ve not seen freeze dry berries in any stores around here in South Africa so wanted to try using frozen fruit from one of the markets.

      Thanks
      Cheers
      Greg

      Reply
      • Bren

        August 01, 2017 at 4:24 pm

        Yes, they are very different. Freeze-drying extracts the water from the strawberries. I find mine in the snack aisle near the raisins.

        Reply
    12. Clara

      July 13, 2017 at 2:20 pm

      Loved it! Can I use fresh cherries? I wanted a more intense tint and I only have fresh ones…

      Reply
      • Bren

        July 14, 2017 at 7:50 am

        I’ve never made the balm with fresh cherries so I’m not sure how that would work. Sorry!

        Reply
    13. Jasmin

      May 07, 2017 at 2:07 am

      I only use coconut oil and don’t use vitamin e, very sensitive skin. How long will this last without the vitamin e and other oils?

      Reply
      • Bren

        May 08, 2017 at 2:52 pm

        I’ve never made it without the vitamin e so I can’t give you an exact answer. It should last for awhile if stored in a cool dry place.

        Reply
        • Jasmin

          May 08, 2017 at 3:39 pm

          Thank you. I’ve asked a few people and most don’t make it without the vitamin E. I look like I had botox if I use vitamin E.

          Reply
    14. Emilie

      August 11, 2016 at 7:41 am

      Hi,

      I really like your recipe but don’t have dried strawberries. Can strawberry extract or fragrance be used and if so in what quantity? Thanks

      Reply
      • Bren

        August 11, 2016 at 9:38 am

        I have never tried using strawberry extract or fragrance. I have used almond extract in my Chocolate Cupcake Lip Balm recipe. It used 1/8 tsp. You might want to use the Chocolate Cupcake Lip Balm recipe but omit the cocoa and use the strawberry extract instead of the almond extract. Let me know how it works for you!

        Reply
    15. Karen Greene

      August 07, 2016 at 3:27 pm

      I am making your recipe now, but with the freeze dried strawberry powder added it pretty much absorbs all the oils. How did you end up with so much oil to stain?

      Reply
      • Bren

        August 07, 2016 at 7:57 pm

        How much of the freeze dried strawberries did you add? If you added a full 1/4 cup you may need to increase the other ingredients. I would remelt the mixture you made over hot water with an additional 1 tablespoon beeswax, 1/2 tablespoon coconut oil, 1/2 tablespoon almond Oil, and 1/8 tsp. vitamin e oil. Stir until everything is melted and then strain.

        Reply
    16. Tracey

      April 19, 2016 at 2:24 pm

      Where did you find your ingredients?

      Reply
      • Bren

        April 20, 2016 at 12:05 pm

        I buy some online at Amazon and some at Trader Joes.

        Reply
    17. Heather

      December 03, 2015 at 4:32 pm

      I have a sensitivity to sweet almond oil. Do you have any suggestions as to what I could replace it with for this recipe? Could I increase the coconut oil? Thank you!!

      Reply
      • Bren

        December 03, 2015 at 5:35 pm

        Yes, you could use extra coconut oil or avocado oil. Hope you enjoy the recipe!

        Reply
    18. Annie

      July 18, 2015 at 11:44 am

      I luv that the strawberry lip balm is natural, but how long will it last? Since theres no preservative? Just learning, and i dont want anything dangerous in my product either!?!?

      Reply
      • Bren

        July 18, 2015 at 4:28 pm

        Annie, the Vitamin E acts as a natural preservative. The lip balm should last several months. It depends where it is stored, weather, etc. if it starts to smell funny you should get rid of it! I like to make small batches so I use it up pretty quickly.

        Reply
    19. Dawn @ Reveal Natural Health

      July 13, 2015 at 6:44 pm

      Sounds yummy with real strawberries! I even dried some strawberries earlier this season 🙂

      Reply
      • Bren

        July 13, 2015 at 8:06 pm

        Thanks Dawn! How did you dry your berries? I should try!

        Reply

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