Double Mint Lip Balm

by Marie | May 11, 2015 | Lip Balm, Very Crunchy | 18 comments

This silky smooth double mint lip balm marries strong, bright peppermint with soft, subtle spearmint, and adds a hint of spicy French rosemary for good measure.

It’s a simple lip balm, with a base of glossy coconut oil, moisturizing cocoa butter (USA / Canada), and soothing olive oil (pomace) (USA / Canada). Beeswax thickens everything up and gives it some staying power.

It comes together in a flash, giving you 10 tubes of minty goodness to share with your friends and family with just 15 minutes of effort.

Double Mint Lip Balm

10g | 0.35oz beeswax (USA / Canada)
12g | 0.42oz virgin coconut oil
7g | 0.25oz cocoa butter (USA / Canada)
19g | 0.67oz olive oil (pomace) (USA / Canada)

14 drops spearmint essential oil
14 drops peppermint essential oil (USA / Canada)
4 drops French rosemary essential oil

Combine the beeswax, coconut oil, cocoa butter (USA / Canada), and olive oil (pomace) (USA / Canada) in a small heat resistant glass measuring cup and melt in a double boiler (this will take five to ten minutes).

Once melted, remove the mixture from the heat and stir in the essential oils using a flexible silicone spatula.

Pour the melted lip balm into lip balm tubes and let them set up before labelling (I use these labels) and using. This recipe will fill about 10 lip balm tubes.

Don’t have some of the oils called for in this recipe? Read this for information on making substitutions!

Save

Humblebee & Me is an Amazon Associate and earns income from qualifying purchases. This is at no additional cost to you.

Help support Humblebee & Me
Many of you have asked if there's a way to help support Humblebee & Me, so I signed up for Patreon. If you love what I do, have learned from me, sell anything made from my recipes, and want to see Humblebee & Me continue to grow and expand, I'd be thrilled if you'd consider becoming a patron. It works by making monthly donations—you can donate $3 a month if you'd like—and then I can use that money to continue to expand Humblebee & Me. There's so much I'd love to do, and you can help make it happen :)
Learn More

Before you comment with a question...

Please read the entire post.
Please read the Substitutions list in the post.
Please look up any ingredients you have questions about in the Humblebee & Me DIY Encyclopedia
Please check out the Humblebee & Me FAQ as well—there's over 100 articles!

Comments that ask questions that are answered in the post, Encyclopedia, or FAQ are unlikely to be answered. I'm sorry, but I'm just one person!

18 Comments

Jennifer on May 11, 2015 at 7:13 am

What is the difference in French rosemary essential oil and rosemary essential oil? I’m not familiar with that type.
Reply
- Marie on June 10, 2015 at 9:26 pm
  
  French rosemary EO is from France. I have one from Spain, and it smells different, and not nearly as nice. Hence, I specified French 🙂 Now of course NDA has gone and discontinued the French one, so I have no idea which one of the ones they sell would be the best option :/
  Reply
Cheryl on May 11, 2015 at 9:58 am

Sounds lovely!
Reply
- Marie on June 10, 2015 at 9:25 pm
  
  Thanks, Cheryl!
  Reply
Deborah Gideon on May 11, 2015 at 1:25 pm

Yes, please clarify about the French rosemary EO. Thanks.
Reply
- Marie on June 10, 2015 at 9:26 pm
  
  French rosemary EO is from France. I have one from Spain, and it smells different, and not nearly as nice. Hence, I specified French 🙂 Now of course NDA has gone and discontinued the French one, so I have no idea which one of the ones they sell would be the best option :/
  Reply
Jennifer on May 11, 2015 at 3:23 pm

I have to make this one. It is quite brilliant.
Reply
- Marie on June 10, 2015 at 9:25 pm
  
  Thanks, Jennifer!
  Reply
Carlos Alvarez on May 12, 2015 at 1:05 pm

Marie:

What a nice DIY lip Balm project heading into the summer. I love the simplicity – yet excitement – of this particular project. It will be fun to do this on a vac day and enjoy before going into the sun.

The first picture is very cute.

Carlos
Reply
- Marie on June 10, 2015 at 9:25 pm
  
  Thanks, Carlos!
  Reply
Kat on May 14, 2015 at 2:50 am

Made it! I may have been heavy-handed with the mint, though…I love a minty lip tingle!
Reply
- Marie on May 30, 2015 at 10:53 pm
  
  Wonderful! Enjoy it 🙂
  Reply
Mary Elaine on May 14, 2015 at 2:26 pm

I just love your blog posts. It makes me think I could make your products!
Reply
- Marie on May 30, 2015 at 10:51 pm
  
  Thanks, Mary! And you definitely can make my products—they’re easier than they look 🙂
  Reply
Wendy on April 19, 2016 at 4:27 am

Hi Marie

I mess up with my first lip balm.. What I did was I used green tea Essential oil because I run out of peppermint oil however green tea empowered the whole lip balm and I can taste it too. Sadly I can’t use it as salve because I put some mica powder too. San way to save it?

Thanks
Reply
- Marie on April 21, 2016 at 10:14 am
  
  Hi Wendy! At this point I’d chuck it :/ The only way to “save” it at this point would be to make several more batches of the lip balm and distribute the original batch through them to dilute the scent, but then you have 5x (or whatever) more lip balm than you wanted. You’d use less ingredients if you just threw out the botched batch and made a fresh one.
  
  Also, there’s no such thing as green tea essential oil—that’ll be a fragrance oil 🙂 If the company that sold it to you is calling it an essential oil I’d recommend finding a new supplier as they obviously have no idea what they’re selling!
  Reply
Georgy on December 1, 2018 at 5:28 pm

Hi I quadrupled this recipe and only added 21 drops each of peppermint and spearmint – as opposed to your recipe above which is 1/4 of that amount. I am finding that 21 drops of each for this volume is too strong. It actually stings the lips and is very very strongly scented.
Reply
- Marie on December 9, 2018 at 4:18 pm
  
  Hey! I’m sorry about this experience. The inaccuracy of drops is a large part of why I have moved away from drops and over to weights and percentages for essential oils. It is very possible your dropper differed from mine, leading to you getting a lot more EO than you thought you’d get based on my experience. If you make it again I would recommend sticking to 0.75% or so peppermint essential oil 🙂 Best of luck and apologies for the mega tingle!
  Reply

Double Mint Lip Balm