Seriously, where do all of my lip balms go? I can make 10 of them, and then they are gone a few days later. They are like socks and storage container lids; they disappear to who knows where. I hope they are at least all having fun together.
Since this is chapped lip season, I've been having fun playing with new lip balm recipes. I made some coffee infused oil, so I wanted to make another coffee flavored lip balm like my pumpkin spice latte lip balm.
I normally use shea butter in my lip balms, but this time I used cocoa butter for it's amazing scent. You can still use shea butter if you have that, but you should add extra shea butter and decrease the coffee infuse oil.
If you don't like coffee, you could use a plain carrier oil, but I like the scent and taste of the coffee. This mocha latte lip balm recipe reminds me of my favorite drink but without any calories.
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Before you can make this recipe, you'll have to make coffee infused oil. It's easy to make, but it will take a while to make, depending on how you make it.
When you infuse the oil and coffee together, the oil takes on a darker hue and the scent of the coffee, which works very well in lip balms. You can use the oil in other recipes, so you might want to make more than what is called for in this recipe.
Coffee has many benefits for your skin when used topically. It's an antioxidant, so it can help stop the signs of aging. It also has vitamin E to help nourish your lips and skin.
Making coffee infused oil is easy. and there really isn't an exact recipe. You just need to put coffee grounds in a jar and cover them with oil.
Choosing a Carrier Oil
You can use any liquid carrier oil. I usually use sweet almond oil for my lip balms, but you can use another oil.
How much coffee and how much oil do you need?
Well, that's not an exact science. You need to cover the coffee grounds with oil, so it depends on how much oil you want to make.
This recipe doesn't need a lot of oil, but you can always use the oil in other recipes. This would be a great oil for a coffee scrub or even in soap.
My peppermint mocha salt scrub and pumpkin spice coffee scrub both take coconut oil, but you can use a liquid oil infused with coffee in place of the coconut oil.
To infuse the oil, place some finely ground coffee in a mason jar. Pour enoughcarrier oilover the coffee to completely cover it. Let sit for two weeks and strain.
If you're in a hurry, you can also infuse it with heat. Just put a towel on the bottom of a slow cooker and place the oil and coffee grounds on top of the towel. Add water until it is over the coffee grounds, but be careful the water doesn't get in the jar. Cook on low for 4-6 hours. Do not put the lid on the slow cooker because it can collect condensation that can drip in the oil. Strain the oil with cheesecloth.
This will fill about 20 lip balm tubes and about 10 pots.
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Mocha Latte Lip Balm Recipe
by Cari @ Everything Pretty December-1-2017
This mocha latte lip balm recipe is easy to make with just few ingredients.
Ingredients
2 ounces coffee infused oil
1 ounce cocoa butter
0.5 ounce beeswax
4 drops cocoa absolute
Instructions
1. Weigh your ingredients with a digital scale. For this recipe, you can't use a liquid measurement.2. Place the coffee infused oil, cocoa butter, and beeswax in a double boiler. Never heat oils over direct heat.3. When the beeswax and cocoa butter are melted, remove from heat and let cool slightly.4. Add the cocoa absolute. Stir well.5. Pour into lip balm tubes or pots.This will fill about 20 lip balm tubes and about 10 pots.
Coffee is a natural exfoliator and rich in caffeine that can help reduce pigmentation and even the tone of the lips. Moreover, grounded coffee helps to exfoliate the dead skin cells, open up the skin pores and make our lips look more plump and fresh.
Coffee is a natural exfoliator and rich in caffeine that can help reduce pigmentation and even the tone of the lips. Moreover, grounded coffee helps to exfoliate the dead skin cells, open up the skin pores and make our lips look more plump and fresh.
Add shea butter, beeswax, and coconut oil to a pan, and create a double-boiler to melt the ingredients. Once they've melted, add some honey and essential oil to the mix. Next—turn off the heat, let the liquid cool, and transfer the contents to a pan. Let the lip-balm harden for half an hour.
Coffee & Caffeine Caffeine-rich Coffee exfoliates away dead skin, removes chapped and flaky skin, while Coffee oil reduces pigmentation. Natural Cane Sugar Naturally extracted Cane Sugar exfoliates away chapped and flaky skin, and polishes the lips to leave them with a healthy sheen.
Exfoliation: Coffee grounds can act as a gentle exfoliant, helping to remove dry, flaky skin from the lips. Stimulated Circulation: The caffeine in coffee can temporarily increase blood circulation, potentially making your lips appear plumper and fuller.
Ingredients like phenol and menthol give that tingling effect and were initially introduced into lip balms for exfoliation. Instead, they typically end up irritating the skin and taking off the outer layers exposing our delicate lips to environmental factors.
Caffeine in coffee grounds stimulates blood flow, which causes the colour of the lips to brighten. Make a paste out of coffee powder by combining it with sugar and coconut oil. Then apply it to your lips.
This coffee sugar scrub leaves lips feeling soft, smooth, and moisturized. If your lips are feeling dry, this coffee scrub will fix that! Cane sugar and coffee grounds exfoliate dead skin, while coffee extract, cocoa butter, and coffee butter moisturize.
Classic ChapStick® flavors, such as Original, Spearmint, Cherry and Strawberry, are solid options if you're looking for an iconic favorite that will stand the test of time.
Some popular flavors that can be added to homemade lip balm or gloss include vanilla, peppermint, citrus, lavender, and chocolate. Other unique options include coconut, honey, cinnamon, and even coffee.
You can add antioxidants directly to your oils to help keep them fresh, or you can add the antioxidant to the oil phase of your recipe. Lip balms, lotion bars, creams, lotions, scrubs and any other product containing oils can benefit from the addition of an antioxidant.
You can add up to 3% of flavor oils to the lip balm base. To sweeten the lip balm, add 2% of the sweetener to the base – you can add up to 3% of this sweetener in your lip balm. Stir slowly until fully incorporated. TIP: How to test if your lip balm is flavored or sweet enough.
Simply melt three tablespoons of beeswax pellets with two tablespoons of shea butter and four tablespoons of coconut oil before stirring in 10 to 20 drops of your favourite essential oil. You can then pour this mixture into pots or tubes and leave it to cool.
Drinks like coffee that contain caffeine, a known diuretic, can compound the problem by causing systemic dehydration. “You see that in the lips pretty quickly,” Dr. Evans says. All of this is partially due to the fact that the skin on your lips is thinner than the skin on the rest of your body.
Your lips can tell you just how hydrated you really are. In the case of coffee, your parched lips can tell you whether you need to set down the mug and reach for a glass of good ol' H2O. So when you wake up in the morning, check your lips—if they're dry and cracked, you might want to cut back on the coffee.
Simply melt three tablespoons of beeswax pellets with two tablespoons of shea butter and four tablespoons of coconut oil before stirring in 10 to 20 drops of your favourite essential oil. You can then pour this mixture into pots or tubes and leave it to cool.
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. For this recipe, you can't use a liquid measurement.
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